page_title: Timeline of women's colleges in the United States
section_title: 1880s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of women's colleges in the United States / Timeline / 1880s
caption_attribution_description: English: Buttrick Hall at Agnes Scott College. Taken with a Canon 5D and 24-105mm f/4L IS lens.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of women's colleges in the United States. These are institutions of higher education in the United States whose student population comprises exclusively, or almost exclusively, women. They are often liberal arts colleges. There are approximately 60 active women's colleges in the U.S.
  Colleges are listed by the date in which they opened their doors to students.
context_section_description: 1881: Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary (now Spelman College): It was the first historically black female institution of higher education to receive its collegiate charter in 1924, making it the oldest historically black women's college
  1881: Incarnate Word School: Originally chartered as a women's college, it absorbed an all-female secondary school in 1909, at which time it became the College and Academy of the Incarnate Word. After spinning off the secondary school later in the 20th century, it became coeducational in 1970, and is now known as the University of the Incarnate Word.
  1881: Tillotson College: Founded as a coeducational, it was a women's college from 1926–1935. It is now the coeducational school, Huston-Tillotson University (historically black college)
  1883: Seton Hill University: Some academic programs, mainly in the performing arts, became coeducational in the 1980s; became fully coeducational in 2002.
  1883: Hartshorn Memorial College founded in Richmond, Virginia. In 1932, it merged with Virginia Union University.
  1884: Industrial Institute & College, (now Mississippi University for Women): It was the first public women's college; became coeducational in 1982 as a result of the Supreme Court's Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan case, but maintained its original name
  1884: Cottey College is founded as "Vernon Seminary," a day and boarding school for girls.
  1885: Bryn Mawr College (Seven Sisters)
  1885: The Woman's College of Baltimore: Became Goucher College in 1910 and coeducational during the 1980s
  1886: H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College: at Tulane University. It was the first coordinate women's college within a U.S. university. Closed in 2006, a suit by descendants of the founder lasted until 2011 when the plaintiffs gave up the case.
  1886: Mary Allen Seminary: Founded in Crockett, Houston County, Texas. It became coeducational in 1933.
  1887: Evelyn College for Women: It was the coordinate women's college of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey; it closed in 1897
  1887: Alverno College
  1888: Women's College of Western Reserve University (renamed Flora Stone Mather College in 1931) ultimately merged with several other colleges to form the Case Western Reserve University Federation in 1967.
  1888: Colorado Women's College known as the "Vassar of the West" was founded in Denver, Co; it merged with the University of Denver in 1982.
  1889: Decatur Female Seminary (now Agnes Scott College): Founded in Decatur, Georgia, it became the Agnes Scott Institute in 1890, and Agnes Scott College in 1906
  1889: Barnard College (Seven Sisters)
  1889: Georgia Normal and Industrial College (now Georgia College & State University): The coordinate college for Georgia Tech, it awarded its first degrees in 1917 and became coeducational in 1967.
  1889: Converse College: Founded in 1889 in Spartanburg, SC.
caption: Agnes Scott College
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