Complex sentence: As a private institution in 1831, Mississippi College became the first coeducational college in the United States to grant a degree to a woman, with degrees that year going to two women, Alice Robinson and Catherine Hall.
Split into simpler sentences: As a private institution in 1831, Mississippi College became the first coeducational college in the United States to grant a degree to a woman. That year it granted degrees to two women, Alice Robinson and Catherine Hall.