• 1814:
Louisburg Female Academy (now Louisburg College): Founded in North Carolina; Louisburg Female College, founded in 1857. Later merged with Franklin Male Academy. • 1818:
Elizabeth Female Academy: First female educational institution in
Mississippi; it closed in 1843. • 1819:
Nazareth Academy (later Nazareth College, now
Spalding University): Founded as an academy (high school) in
Bardstown, Kentucky, it moved to the nearby community of
Nazareth in 1822, and first received authority to grant degrees in 1829. The
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, which has operated the institution from its creation, opened a branch campus in
Louisville in 1920. The school became Spalding College in 1969, moved all instruction to Louisville in 1971, admitted its first men in 1973, and became a university in 1984. • 1821:
Clinton Female Seminary: Georgia. Forerunner to
Wesleyan College. • 1827:
Knoxville Female Academy: Rechartered as the
East Tennessee Female Institute in 1846, which granted "Mistress of Polite Literature" degrees; closed in 1911. • 1828:
South Carolina Female Institute: The word "Collegiate" was added to its charter in 1835. It closed in 1867. • 1831:
LaGrange Female Academy (now
LaGrange College): Founded in
LaGrange, Georgia, it became
LaGrange Female College in 1851, and coeducational in 1953. • 1835:
Livingston Female Academy and State Normal College (now
University of West Alabama): It became coeducational in 1915. • 1838:
Judson Female Institute (
Judson College): Founded in
Marion, Alabama, it became
Judson College in 1903, it closed in 2021. • 1839:
Farmville Female Seminary Association (now
Longwood University): Founded in
Farmville, Virginia, it became a four-year college in 1860; it became coeducational in 1976. • 1841:
Asheville Female Seminary: Later renamed
Asheville Female College. • 1842:
Fulton Female Academy (now
Synodical College): Founded in
Fulton, Missouri, it closed in 1928. • 1842:
Augusta Female Seminary (now
Mary Baldwin University): Founded in
Staunton, Virginia, it was renamed as
Mary Baldwin Seminary in 1895,
Mary Baldwin College in 1923 after curriculum development, and
Mary Baldwin University in 2016. It went coeducational one year later. • 1846:
Greensboro Female College: Charted in 1838 in
Greensboro, North Carolina; it is now the coeducational school
Greensboro College. • 1847:
Kentucky Female Orphan School (now
Midway University): Became fully coeducational in 2016 when it admitted men into its daytime undergraduate program, the last component of the school that remained women-only. The school had offered coeducational evening/weekend and online programs for several years before going fully coed. • 1851:
Tennessee and Alabama Female Institute (later
Mary Sharp College): It was the first women's college to grant academic college degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men; the college closed due to financial hardship in 1896. • 1853:
Hagerstown Female Seminary (later
Kee Mar College): in
Hagerstown, Maryland. It closed in 1911. • 1853:
Union Female College, in
Oxford, Mississippi • 1854:
Columbia College (Columbia, South Carolina), became coeducational in 2021. • 1855:
Davenport Female College (later Davenport College): Founded in
Lenoir, North Carolina. Chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1859. Merged with Greensboro College in 1938. • 1855:
Mansfield Female College: Founded in
Mansfield, Louisiana, it is claimed to be the first women's college west of the
Mississippi River. Merged with
Centenary College of Louisiana in 1930. • 1857:
Athens Female College: Founded in
Athens, Tennessee; renamed East Tennessee Wesleyan in 1866. Nowadays
Tennessee Wesleyan University. • 1857:
Charlotte Female Institute: Founded in
Charlotte, North Carolina; became the coeducational
Queens University of Charlotte after World War II. • 1857:
Peace Institute (now
William Peace University): Founded in
Raleigh, North Carolina; changed name first to
Peace College, and then to the current name when it became coeducational in 2012. • 1865:
Ward Seminary for Young Ladies: Founded in Nashville, Tennessee; merged with
Belmont College for Young Women in 1913 to form
Ward–Belmont College. In 1951, Ward–Belmont was sold to the Tennessee Baptist Convention, under which it became coeducational and its name was shortened to Belmont College (today
Belmont University). • 1867:
Scotia Seminary (now
Barber–Scotia College): It was the first
historically black female institution of higher education established after the
American Civil War. It became a women's college in 1916. It became a coeducational school in 1954. It lost its accreditation in 2004. • 1869: ''Young's Female College'' in
Thomasville, Georgia, was founded in 1869. It had 15 teachers and 115 students in 1906. • 1870:
Sullins College: Founded in Bristol, VA in 1870, it originally operated a high school as well as a junior college. The high school was discontinued after WW II. The junior college, which offered associate degrees in both liberal arts and fine arts, closed in 1976. • 1873:
Blue Mountain College (now
Blue Mountain Christian University): Founded in Northeast Mississippi, it remained focused on women's education until 1956, when a program to train men for church-related vocations was started. In October 2005, the board of trustees voted to make the school co-educational. • 1875:
Mount Hermon Female Seminary: Founded in
Clinton, Mississippi, it closed in 1924. • 1881:
Incarnate Word School (now
University of the Incarnate Word): Located in
San Antonio, Texas and originally chartered as a women's college, it absorbed an all-female secondary school early in its history, adding college classes in 1909. It became coeducational in 1970. • 1881:
Tillotson College: Founded as a
coeducational school, it was a women's college from 1926–1935. It became coeducational and has developed as
Huston–Tillotson University with additional programs. • 1883:
Belhaven College for Young Ladies (now
Belhaven University): Opened in 1894 and located in Jackson, Mississippi. The school became coeducational in 1954. • 1883:
Hartshorn Memorial College founded in
Richmond, Virginia. In 1932, it merged with
Virginia Union University. • 1884:
Industrial Institute & College (now
Mississippi University for Women): It was the first public women's college; became coeducational in 1982 as a result of the
Supreme Court's
Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan case, but maintained its original name. • 1886:
Mary Allen Seminary : Founded in Crockett, Houston County, Texas. It became coeducational in 1933. • 1886:
H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College: Became coeducational in 2007 (merged with
Tulane University) • 1889:
Converse College: Founded in
Spartanburg, South Carolina, became coeducational in 2020. Changed its name a year later when it became a university. • 1889:
Georgia Normal and Industrial College: The coordinate college for
Georgia Tech, it granted its first degrees in 1917. After two name changes, the Women's College of Georgia became coeducational in 1967. Three more name changes followed, with the current name of
Georgia College & State University adopted in 1996. • 1890:
Belmont College for Young Women: It merged with Ward Seminary for Young Ladies in 1913 to become Ward-Belmont College and later became coeducational. • 1891: ''Randolph-Macon Women's College'': It become coeducational and changed its name to
Randolph College in 2007. • 1891: ''North Carolina Women's College'': It became the coeducational
University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1963. • 1896:
Alabama Girls Industrial School: Became coeducational (Alabama College) in 1956 and changed its name to
University of Montevallo in 1969. • 1896:
Barber Memorial College: Founded in
Anniston, Alabama, it merged with Scotia Women's College (formerly Scotia Seminary) in
Concord, North Carolina in 1930 to become
Barber-Scotia Junior College • 1905:
Florida State College for Women: Founded as the coeducational West Florida Seminary in 1851, it went through four name changes in its first half-century, becoming Florida State College in 1901. The school then became a women's college in 1905. In 1947, it returned to coeducation and adopted its current name of
Florida State University. • 1908:
State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Fredericksburg: After changing its name to
Mary Washington College (MWC) in 1938, it became the coordinate
women's college of The
University of Virginia in 1944. MWC was separated from UVA in 1972, two years after both schools became fully coeducational. MWC adopted its current name of the
University of Mary Washington in 2004. • 1908:
State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg: Became
de facto coeducational in 1946, by which time it was known as Madison College (the school's fourth name), and became officially coeducational in 1966. Adopted its current name of
James Madison University in 1976. • 1921:
Villa Madonna College: Founded in
Covington, Kentucky as a women's college, but conducted many coeducational classes through an affiliation with the all-male St. Thomas More College. In 1945, Villa Madonna became coeducational when St. Thomas More was merged into it. The school's previous name of
Thomas More College was adopted in 1968, the same year it moved to its current campus in
Crestview Hills. Thomas More was granted university status in 2018. • 1925:
Mount Saint Joseph College for Women: Founded as a junior college in the rural
Daviess County, Kentucky community of Maple Mount, it soon opened a coeducational extension branch in nearby
Owensboro. The extension branch eventually became a second campus, although the Maple Mount campus remained all-female. In 1950, Mount Saint Joseph merged its two campuses into a single coeducational institution at the Owensboro site. The following year, the school became Brescia College, and it adopted its current name of
Brescia University in 1998. • 1938:
Ursuline College: Located in
Louisville, Kentucky, it merged into the previously all-male Bellarmine College, also in Louisville, in 1968. The merged school adopted its current name of
Bellarmine University in 2000. ==Coeducation==