Women's college

A college that admits women only. Historically, women's colleges provided access to higher education when most universities excluded women.

Mount Holyoke College: A private women's liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, founded in 1837 as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Its founding established a durable model for rigorous higher education for women.
Women's colleges in the United States: Institutions of higher education in the United States that enroll women only. These colleges form the largest and best-known group of institutions of this type.
Coeducation: The education of people of different genders together in the same institution. Coeducation is the institutional alternative to admitting women only.
Women in STEM fields: The participation and representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Women's colleges have been associated with strong pathways into science and mathematics careers.
Mary Lyon: An American educator who founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837. Lyon built an institution that combined academic rigor with practical teacher training.
Women's colleges in India: Colleges in India that enroll women only, including institutions founded to expand women's education. They show how the single-sex college model developed beyond the United States.
Single-sex education: Education in which students are separated by sex or gender. Women's colleges are a form of single-sex higher education.
Women in higher education: Women's participation as students and scholars in colleges and universities. The growth of women's colleges helped expand women's presence in higher education.
Seven Sisters: A group of seven historic women's colleges in the northeastern United States. The group includes prominent colleges founded to educate women excluded from elite universities.
Women's colleges in Bangladesh: Colleges in Bangladesh that enroll women only. They illustrate the model's use in expanding access to postsecondary study.

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