| 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]
Monmouth College (admits women on equal basis from beginning)[20]
Willamette University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1842)[21] |
| 1854 | Muskingum University[22]
Pacific University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849)[23]
Urbana University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[24][25] |
| 1855 | Eureka College (admits women on an equal basis with men at its founding) [26]
Bates College[27][28]
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)[29]
University of Evansville (formerly Moore's Hill College)[30]
St. Lawrence University[31]
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)[32][33]
Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854)[34] |
| 1858 | University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858)[35] |
| 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)[36]
Cooper Union (free college; enrollment open to all genders, races, religions, economic classes) [37][38]
Olivet College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1844; chartered as college in 1859)[39] |
| 1860 |
Wheaton College (Illinois)[40] |
| 1861 |
Plainfield College[41]Grinnell College[42] |
| 1862 | Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858)[citation needed] |
| 1863 | Kansas State University[43][44] |
| 1864 | Swarthmore College[45]
Blackburn College[46] |
| 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)[47][48] |
| 1867 | Carleton College[49]
DePauw University[50]
Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[citation needed]
Indiana University[51][52]
Lebanon Valley College[53]
McDaniel College[54] |
| 1868 | University of Missouri[55]
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[56] |
| 1869 | Berea College[57]
Boston University[58]
Iowa State University[59][60]
University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866)[61]
Northwestern University[62]
Ohio University[63]
Washington University in St. Louis[17] |
| 1870 | Allegheny College[64]
University of California, Berkeley[52][65]
Carthage College[66]
Cornell University[67][68]
University of Illinois[52]
University of Iowa Medical School[69]
Knox College[70]
Michigan State University[71]
College of Wooster[72] |
| 1871 | California Wesleyan College
Colby College[73] (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes)[52]
University of Michigan[74]
University of Nebraska-Lincoln[52]
Pennsylvania State University[75]
Syracuse University[2]
University of Vermont |
| 1872 | Tusculum College[76]
University of Akron (at that time "Buchtel College")[citation needed]
University of Maine[52]
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)[77] |
| 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[52]
Susquehanna University[78]
Texas Christian University[citation needed] |
| 1875 | Purdue University[79]
St. Olaf College[80] |
| 1876 | University of Oregon[52] |
| 1877 | University of Colorado at Boulder[52]
Ohio Wesleyan University[81] |
| 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)[82]
University of Southern California[citation needed]
Ursinus College[83] |
| 1881 | Coe College[citation needed]
Hendrix College[citation needed] |
| 1882 | University of South Dakota[citation needed] |
| 1883 | Bucknell University[68]
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.)[84]
Middlebury College[citation needed]
University of Texas[citation needed] |
| 1884 | University of North Dakota[52] |
| 1885 | University of Mississippi[citation needed] |
| 1886 | University of Nevada, Reno[52] |
| 1887 | Baylor University[citation needed]
Gallaudet University (at the time "National Deaf-Mute College)[85]
Occidental College
Pomona College[citation needed]
Stetson University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1883)
University of Wyoming[52] |
| 1888 | George Washington University
Guilford College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1837; it became a college in 1888)[86]
University of Kentucky
Tulane University Pharmaceutical School |
| 1889 | Elon University[87]
West Virginia University[88] |
| 1891 | University of Arizona[52]
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)[52]
University of New Mexico[52]
University of Oklahoma[52]American International College[89] |
| 1893 | University of Alabama[52]
University of Connecticut
Johns Hopkins University Graduate School
Macalester College[90]
University of Tennessee |
| 1894 | Boalt Hall[91] |
| 1895 | Beloit College
University of Montana[52]
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) |