page_title: Timeline of women's colleges in the United States
section_title: 1920s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of women's colleges in the United States / Timeline / 1920s
caption_attribution_description: English: The Doheny Mansion, centerpiece of Mount St. Mary's College's Doheny Campus in Los Angeles, California
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: 1920: College of Mount St. Joseph: Technically founded in 1920, when it received formal state approval to operate as a college, but predecessor institutions had offered two years of college education for females for several decades. Became coeducational in 1986, and adopted its current name of Mount St. Joseph University in 2014.
  1920: Villa Maria College: Became Immaculata College in 1929 and Immaculata University in 2002. It became coeducational in 2005.
  1921: Rosemont College
  1921: Villa Madonna College: Although founded as a women's college, it was affiliated with the all-male St. Thomas More College. In 1945, Villa Madonna became coeducational, absorbing St. Thomas More College. The school moved to a new campus in 1968, becoming Thomas More College at that time, and became Thomas More University in 2018.
  1922: Notre Dame College (Ohio): Became coeducational in the spring term of 2001.
  1923: College of Saint Mary
  1923: Marymount Junior College: Became Marymount College of Los Angeles in 1948 when it began offering bachelor's degrees. Merged with Loyola University of Los Angeles, originally all-male at the undergraduate level but later partially coed, in 1973 to create Loyola Marymount University.
  1923: Mount St. Scholastica College: Merged with the all-male St. Benedict's College in 1971 to form the co-educational Benedictine College
  1924: Chestnut Hill College: Began a coeducational graduate program in 1980, and became fully coeducational in 2003.
  1925: Albertus Magnus College: It became coeducational in 1985
  1925: Mount Saint Joseph College for Women: Originally located in the rural Daviess County, Kentucky community of Maple Mount, the school soon opened a coeducational extension branch in nearby Owensboro. The extension branch eventually grew into its own campus, and the school became coeducational when the two campuses were merged at the Owensboro location in 1950. Became Brescia College in 1951 and Brescia University in 1998.
  1925: Mount St. Mary's College
  1926: Mercyhurst College: It became coeducational in 1969, and adopted its current name of Mercyhurst University in 2012.
  1926: Sarah Lawrence College: It became coeducational in 1968
  1926: Scripps College
  1927: Regis College: It become coeducational in 2007
  1928: Elms College: It became coeducational in 1998.
caption: Mount St. Mary's College, Doheny campus
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