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Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women. Some women's colleges admit male students to their graduate schools or in smaller numbers to undergraduate programs, but all serve a primarily female student body.

Women's colleges around the world

Main article: List of current and historical women's universities and colleges

Women's colleges in the United States

Women's colleges in the United States were primarily founded during the early 19th century. According to Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline, and Elizabeth DeBra, "women's colleges were founded during the mid- and late-19th century in response to a need for advanced education for women at a time when they were not admitted to most institutions of higher education."[1] While there were a few coeducational colleges (such as Oberlin College founded in 1833, Lawrence University in 1847, Antioch College in 1853, and Bates College in 1855), most colleges and universities of high standing at that time were exclusively for men.

The Women's College Coalition is an association of women’s colleges and universities that are two- and four-year, public and private, religiously affiliated and secular – was founded in 1972. This was a time in which the Civil Rights Movement, the Women's Rights Movement, and Title IX, as well as demographic and technological changes brought about rapid and complex social and economic change in the United States. Additionally, the landscape of higher education dramatically changed as many previously all-male colleges became coeducational, offering women many more educational options. By the late 1970s, women’s enrollment in college exceeded men’s and, today, women make up the majority of undergraduates (57% nationally) on college campuses. Women earn better college grades than men do, and are more likely than men to complete college.

During the past several years, the Women’s College Coalition engaged in research about the benefits of a women’s college education in the 21st Century. Drawing upon the findings of research conducted by the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and Hardwick-Day on levels of satisfaction among students and alumnae at women’s colleges and coeducational institutions, as well as the Association of American Colleges and Universities, NAICU and others, the Coalition makes the case for women’s education and women’s colleges to prospective students, families, policy and opinion makers, the media, employers and the general public.

Women's Colleges and Universities in North America

Women's colleges in Asia

See also: Category:Women's universities and colleges in India and List of current and historical women's universities and colleges in Japan

Women's colleges in Australia

Women's colleges in Europe

United Kingdom

Women's colleges in the Middle East

Kingdom of Bahrain
United Arab Emirates
Kuwait
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Most major universities in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are composed of two branches: a women-only branch and a similar male-only branch. This includes the following universities:

The following are female-only institutions:

Iran
Sudan

Canada

Brescia University College is Canada's only university-level women's-only educational institution. Brescia is affiliated with and located on the campus of The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Harwarth, Irene. "Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues, and Challenges". ed.gov. Retrieved 2006-10-14.
  2. ^ About Brescia University College

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