# List of earliest coeducational colleges and universities in the United States

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.
| 1837 | Oberlin College (women were admitted to the "preparatory department" 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 | 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) |
| 1847 | Earlham College |
| 1849 | New-York Central College (disestablished 1860) Otterbein University |
| 1851 | Waynesburg College |
| 1852 | Westminster College |
| 1853 | Antioch College Cornell College (originally Iowa Conference Seminary, co-ed classes start with founding 1853) Lawrence University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849) Monmouth College (admits women on equal basis from beginning) 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) |
| 1855 | Eureka College (admits women on an equal basis with men at its founding) 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) University of Evansville (formerly Moore's Hill College) 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 | 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) 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 | Plainfield CollegeGrinnell College |
| 1862 | Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858) |
| 1863 | Kansas State University |
| 1864 | Swarthmore College Blackburn College |
| 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 | University of Missouri Oregon State University (co-ed secondary classes began about 1858; chartered as college in 1868) Wells College (Coeducational in 2005) University of Minnesota |
| 1869 | Berea College Boston University Iowa State University University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866) Northwestern University Ohio University Washington University in St. Louis |
| 1870 | Allegheny College University of California, Berkeley Carthage College 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 Agricultural College, subsequently North Georgia College & State University; since 2013 merged into the University of North Georgia) Ohio State University Susquehanna University Texas Christian University |
| 1875 | Purdue University St. Olaf College |
| 1876 | University of Oregon |
| 1877 | University of Colorado at Boulder Ohio Wesleyan University |
| 1878 | Hope College |
| 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) Emerson College University of Pennsylvania (women previously admitted to non-degree-granting programs in 1876) University of Southern California Ursinus College |
| 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. 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.) Middlebury College University of Texas |
| 1884 | University of North Dakota |
| 1885 | University of Mississippi |
| 1886 | University of Nevada, Reno |
| 1887 | Baylor University Gallaudet University (at the time "National Deaf-Mute College) Occidental College 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 Tulane University Pharmaceutical School |
| 1889 | Elon University West Virginia University |
| 1891 | University of Arizona 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) University of New Mexico University of OklahomaAmerican International College |
| 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) |