List of earliest coeducational colleges and universities in the United States
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The following is a list of mixed-sex colleges and universities in the United States, listed in the order that mixed-sex students were admitted to degree-granting college-level courses.
Many of the earliest mixed-education institutes offered co-educational secondary school-level classes for three or four years before co-ed college-level courses began – these situations are noted in the parentheticals below.
Earliest mixed-sex higher education institutes (through 19th century)
- Schools that were previously all-female are listed in bold.
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