List of coeducational colleges and universities in the United States
Earliest mixed-sex higher education institutes (through 19th century)
Schools that were previously all-female are listed in bold.

List of coeducational colleges and universities in the United States

Section Title: Earliest mixed-sex higher education institutes (through 19th century)
Table Section Text: Schools that were previously all-female are listed in bold.

1837	Oberlin College (co-educational classes began in 1833)

1844	Hillsdale College

1845	Franklin College (co-ed secondary-level classes began in 1842 at "Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute"; chartered as Franklin College in 1845)

1847	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)[unreliable source?]

1849	New-York Central College (disestablished 1860) Otterbein University

1851	Waynesburg College

1852	Westminster College

1853	Antioch College Lawrence University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849) Willamette University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1842)

1854	Muskingum University Pacific University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849) Urbana University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[citation not found]

1855	Bates College University of Iowa (first coeducational public or state university in the United States)

1856	Baldwin University (now Baldwin Wallace University) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1845) St. Lawrence University Wilberforce University (first coeducational HBCU in the United States)

1857	Alfred University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1836; it received its university charter in 1857) Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854)

1858	University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858)

1859	Cooper Union (free college; enrollment open to all genders, races, religions, economic classes) Olivet College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1844; chartered as college in 1859)

1860	Wheaton College (Illinois)

1861	North Central College (as Plainfield College)

1862	Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858)

1863	Kansas State University

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)

1867	Carleton College DePauw University Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850) Indiana University Lebanon Valley College McDaniel College

1868	Oregon State University (co-ed secondary classes began about 1858; chartered as college in 1868) University of Missouri

1869	Berea College Boston University Iowa State University University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866) University of Minnesota Northwestern University Ohio University Swarthmore College Washington University in St.

1870	University of California, Berkeley Cornell University University of Illinois University of Iowa Medical School Knox College Michigan State University College of Wooster

1871	California Wesleyan College Colby College (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes) University of Michigan University of Nebraska-Lincoln Pennsylvania State University Syracuse University University of Vermont

1872	Tusculum College University of Akron (at that time "Buchtel College") University of Maine 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)

1873	North Georgia College & State University (then North Georgia Agricultural College; since 2013 merged into the University of North Georgia) Ohio State University Texas Christian University

1875	Purdue University St. Olaf College

1876	University of Oregon

1877	Ohio Wesleyan University University of Colorado at Boulder

1878	Hope College

1880	Emerson College University of Pennsylvania (women previously admitted to non-degree-granting programs in 1876) University of Southern California 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)

1881	Coe College Hendrix College

1882	University of South Dakota

1883	Bucknell University Florida State University (The school was a coeducational seminary beginning in 1851, and was chartered as a coeducational university in 1883.

1884	University of North Dakota

1885	University of Mississippi

1886	University of Nevada, Reno

1887	Baylor University Pomona College Stetson University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1883) University of Wyoming

1888	George Washington University Guilford College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1837; it became a college in 1888) University of Kentucky Pomona College Tulane University Pharmaceutical School

1889	West Virginia University Elon University

1891	University of Arizona College of Idaho Stanford University George Fox University (at that time "Pacific College")

1892	Auburn University University of Chicago (women resegregated into separate classes in 1902 for their first two years) University of New Mexico University of Oklahoma

1893	University of Alabama University of Connecticut Johns Hopkins University Graduate School Macalester College University of Tennessee

1894	Boalt Hall

1895	Beloit College University of Montana 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)

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Oberlin has been a coeducational institution in the United States since 1837.

final_sentence: Oberlin has been a coeducational institution in the United States since 1837.