Women's colleges

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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 comprised 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.

1 Women's colleges around the world
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Women's colleges around the world

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

[edit] Women's colleges in Asia

Ehwa Woman's University in South Korea.

[edit] Women's colleges in Europe

[edit] United Kingdom

St Hilda's College, Oxford (due to become co-educational in 2008)
Previously Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (became co-educational in 1979)
Previously St Anne's College, Oxford (became co-educational in 1979)
Previously Somerville College, Oxford (became co-educational in 1994)
New Hall, Cambridge
Newnham College, Cambridge
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
Previously Girton College, Cambridge
Previously Royal Holloway, University of London (became co-educational in 1965)

[edit] Women's colleges in the Middle East

Royal University for Women, Kingdom of Bahrain

[edit] Women's colleges in North America

[edit] United States

See main article: 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, Antioch College in 1853, and Bates College in 1855), most colleges and universities of high standing at that time were exclusively for men.