Coeducation Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. Before coeducation became predominant, most important institutions of higher education restricted their enrollment to men. Women were educated in all-female schools, if at all.

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1 Coeducation in the United States 2 U.S. institutions of higher education coeducational from establishment 3 Years Canadian educational institutions became coeducational 4 Years U.S. educational institutions became coeducational 5 External links

Coeducation in the United States

The first coeducational institution of higher education in the United States was Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. The agitation for coeducation by feminists grew through the American Civil War era, and by 1872 there were 97 American universities admitting women. Some institutions refused to integrate fully, but were willing to educate women in closely associated schools—a variation on the later "separate but equal" standard of racially segregated schools followed in some parts of the US. Examples of this parallelism include Radcliffe College at Harvard University in Massachusetts and Barnard College at Columbia University in New York. A variety of gender-segregated women's institutions were founded, notably the Seven Sisters. Some of these are now coeducational (e.g. Vassar), while others are not (e.g. Wellesley).

It should be noted that many or most "common schools"—the neighborhood, village and county schools that educated most Americans through the end of the 19th century—were coeducational from the beginning, in part because small school districts could not fund separate educational facilities for girls and boys.

Remarkably, after a little more than than a century in the mainstream higher education system of the United States, American women now earn the majority of bachelor's degrees and account for 60% of the enrolled undergraduate population.

U.S. institutions of higher education coeducational from establishment

• Oberlin College (1833)
• Hillsdale College (1844)
• Antioch College (1853)
• University of Iowa (1856)
• Boston University (1869)
• Swarthmore College (1870)
• Stanford University (1891)
• University of Chicago (1892)
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1893)
• Brandeis University (1948)

Years Canadian educational institutions became coeducational

1884	McGill University

Years U.S. educational institutions became coeducational

Italics: Schools that were previously all-female

1860	University of Wisconsin
1865	Cornell University
1867	DePauw University Indiana University
1868	University of Iowa Law School
1870	University of Michigan
1872	Cornell University
1882	Florida State University
1883	Bucknell University
1885	University of Mississippi
1888	George Washington University Tulane University Pharamaceutical School University of Kentucky
1892	Auburn University
1893	Macalester College University of Connecticut
1894	Boalt Hall
1895	University of Pittsburgh
1897	University of Buffalo Law School University of North Carolina (graduate students)
1900	University of Virginia (nursing only)
1902	Miami University
1909	Tulane University School of Dentistry
1914	Tulane University Medical School University of Pennsylvania Medical School
1918	College of William and Mary
1920	University of Virginia (graduate students)
1922	Northeastern University School of Law
1931	Seattle University
1942	Wake Forest University
1946	James Madison University (de facto)
1952	Lincoln University
1953	Georgia Tech
1953	Harvard Law School
1963	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (all programs) University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1964	Texas A&M University;
1966	James Madison University (official)
1968	Princeton University Virginia Tech
1969	Connecticut College Georgetown University Kenyon College Trinity College (Connecticut) Vassar College Yale University
1970	Johns Hopkins University University of Mary Washington University of Virginia (all programs)
1972	Davidson College Radford University Texas Woman's University University of Notre Dame Washington and Lee University Law School
1974	United States Merchant Marine Academy
1976	Claremont McKenna College United States Air Force Academy United States Coast Guard Academy United States Military Academy United States Naval Academy
1982	Mississippi University for Women
1983	Columbia College - Columbia University
1985	Washington and Lee University
1991	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
1993	The Citadel
1997	Virginia Military Institute
2001	Notre Dame College
2002	Hood College
2004	Immaculata College
2005	Lesley College of Lesley University Wells College

External links

• Rosenberg: Coeducation History

See also: List of current and historical women's universities and colleges

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