| 1837 | Oberlin College (women were admitted to the "preparatory department" in 1833)[1][dead link][2][3] |
| 1844 | Hillsdale College[3][4][5] |
| 1845 | Franklin College (co-ed secondary-level classes began in 1842 at "Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute"; chartered as Franklin College in 1845)[6][7][3] |
| 1847 | Lawrence University
Baylor College (until 1851 Baylor offered "coeducation" in the same building, although in separate classes; after 1851 the school fully segregated the sexes until 1887)[3][8][9][10][unreliable source?][11] |
| 1847 | Earlham College[12] |
| 1849 | New-York Central College (disestablished 1860)[13]
Otterbein University[3][14] |
| 1851 | Waynesburg College[15] |
| 1852 | Westminster College[16] |
| 1853 | Antioch College[17]
Cornell College (originally Iowa Conference Seminary, co-ed classes start with founding 1853)[18]
Lawrence University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849)[19]
Willamette University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1842)[20] |
| 1854 | Muskingum University[21]
Pacific University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849)[22]
Urbana University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[23][24] |
| 1855 | Eureka College (First school in Illinois and third in the nation to admit women on an equal basis with men at its founding) [25]
Bates College[26][27]
University of Iowa (first coeducational public or state university in the United States)[1][2] |
| 1856 | Baldwin University (now Baldwin Wallace University) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1845)[28]
University of Evansville (formerly Moore's Hill College)[29]
St. Lawrence University[30]
Wilberforce University (first coeducational HBCU in the United States)[citation needed] |
| 1857 | Alfred University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1836; it received its university charter in 1857)[31][32]
Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854)[33] |
| 1858 | University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858)[34] |
| 1859 | Adrian College (four women enrolled as early as 1855 when Michigan Union College; Adrian itself was open to women from the onset under equal curriculum)[35]
Cooper Union (free college; enrollment open to all genders, races, religions, economic classes) [36][37]
Olivet College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1844; chartered as college in 1859)[38] |
| 1860 |
Wheaton College (Illinois)[39] |
| 1861 |
Plainfield College[40]Grinnell College[41] |
| 1862 | Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858)[citation needed] |
| 1863 | Kansas State University[42][43] |
| 1864 | Swarthmore College[44] |
| 1866 | University of Wisconsin–Madison (women admitted to classes in the "Normal Department" in 1863 and all college classes about 1866, although separate Female College and separate graduation existed until 1874)[45][46] |
| 1867 | Carleton College[47]
DePauw University[48]
Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[citation needed]
Indiana University[49][50]
Lebanon Valley College[51]
McDaniel College[52] |
| 1868 | University of Missouri[53]
Oregon State University (co-ed secondary classes began about 1858; chartered as college in 1868)[citation needed]
Wells College (Coeducational in 2005)
University of Minnesota[54] |
| 1869 | Berea College[55]
Boston University[56]
Iowa State University[57][58]
University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866)[59]
Northwestern University[60]
Ohio University[61]
Washington University in St. Louis[17] |
| 1870 | Allegheny College[62]
University of California, Berkeley[50][63]
Carthage College[64]
Cornell University[65][66]
University of Illinois[50]
University of Iowa Medical School[67]
Knox College[68]
Michigan State University[69]
College of Wooster[70] |
| 1871 | California Wesleyan College
Colby College[71] (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes)[50]
University of Michigan[72]
University of Nebraska-Lincoln[50]
Pennsylvania State University[73]
Syracuse University[2]
University of Vermont |
| 1872 | Tusculum College[74]
University of Akron (at that time "Buchtel College")[citation needed]
University of Maine[50]
University of Washington (co-ed secondary classes began in 1861; the school was closed at various times between 1862 and 1869)
Wesleyan University (until 1912, when it became all male once again)[75] |
| 1873 | North Georgia Agricultural College, subsequently North Georgia College & State University; since 2013 merged into the University of North Georgia)[citation needed]
Ohio State University[50]
Susquehanna University[76]
Texas Christian University[citation needed] |
| 1875 | Purdue University[77]
St. Olaf College[78] |
| 1876 | University of Oregon[50] |
| 1877 | University of Colorado at Boulder[50]
Ohio Wesleyan University[79] |
| 1878 | Hope College[citation needed] |
| 1880 | Bridgewater College (the first private liberal arts college in Virginia to be co-ed, and one of the first of its kind in the south)[citation needed]
Emerson College[citation needed]
University of Pennsylvania (women previously admitted to non-degree-granting programs in 1876)[80]
University of Southern California[citation needed]
Ursinus College[81] |
| 1881 | Coe College[citation needed]
Hendrix College[citation needed] |
| 1882 | University of South Dakota[citation needed] |
| 1883 | Bucknell University[66]
Florida State University (The school was a coeducational seminary beginning in 1851, and was chartered as a coeducational university in 1883. However, in 1905, a reorganization of the state's higher education system converted what was then Florida State College to a women's school, Florida State College for Women. It returned to coeducation in 1947, adopting its current name at that time.)[82]
Middlebury College[citation needed]
University of Texas[citation needed] |
| 1884 | University of North Dakota[50] |
| 1885 | University of Mississippi[citation needed] |
| 1886 | University of Nevada, Reno[50] |
| 1887 | Baylor University[citation needed]
Gallaudet University (at the time "National Deaf-Mute College)[83]
Occidental College
Pomona College[citation needed]
Stetson University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1883)
University of Wyoming[50] |
| 1888 | George Washington University
Guilford College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1837; it became a college in 1888)[84]
University of Kentucky
Tulane University Pharmaceutical School |
| 1889 | Elon University[85]
West Virginia University[86] |
| 1891 | University of Arizona[50]
George Fox University (at the time "Pacific College")
College of Idaho
Stanford University |
| 1892 | Auburn University
Greenville University
University of Chicago (women resegregated into separate classes in 1902 for their first two years)[50]
University of New Mexico[50]
University of Oklahoma[50]American International College[87] |
| 1893 | University of Alabama[50]
University of Connecticut
Johns Hopkins University Graduate School
Macalester College[88]
University of Tennessee |
| 1894 | Boalt Hall[89] |
| 1895 | Beloit College
University of Montana[50]
University of Pittsburgh
University of South Carolina |
| 1897 | University at Buffalo Law School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (graduate students) |
| 1899 | Eastern Michigan University (co-ed classes in the "Normal school" began 1852; chartered as college in 1899) |
