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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.

Earliest mixed-sex higher education institutes (through 19th century)

Franklin College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1787) (began as a coeducational school, but the co-ed policy was soon abandoned and it would take 182 years before women were again permitted to enroll in the school)
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (1833) (women admitted to preparatory department in 1833, college department in 1837)^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]
Alfred University, Village of Alfred, New York (1836) (established as a coeducational "select school" in 1836; it received its university charter in 1857)^[5]^[6]
Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina (1837) (established as a coeducational preparatory school in 1837; it became a college in 1888)^[7]
Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan (1844)^[8]
Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan (1844)^[9]
Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin (1849)
Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio (1850)^[10]
Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania (1851)^[11]
Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania (1852)^[12]
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio (1853)
Hamline University, Red Wing, Minnesota (1854)
Berea College, Berea, Kentucky (1855)
Bates College, Lewiston, Maine (1855)^[13]^[14]
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (1855) (first coeducational public or state university in the United States)^[2]^[3]
University of Wisconsin–Madison (1860)^[2]^[15]
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas (1863)^[16]^[17]
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota (1866)
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (1866)^[18]
College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio (1866)
DePauw University (1867)^[19]
Indiana University (1867)^[4]
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California (1868)
University of Iowa Law School (1868)
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (1869)^[20]
Northwestern University (1869)^[21]
Ohio University (1869)
Cornell University (1870)
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois (1870)^[22]
Michigan State University (1870)
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (1870)
Washington University in St. Louis (1870) (first women admitted to the law school in 1869)
University of Michigan (1871)^[23]
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (1871)^[3]
Colby College (1871)
Pennsylvania State University (1871)
Wesleyan University (1872) (until 1912, when it became all male once again)
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas (1873)
Purdue University (1875)
Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas (1876)
University of Pennsylvania (1876)
Ohio Wesleyan University (1877)
Hope College (1878)
Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts (1880)
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1881)
Bucknell University (1883)
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (1883)
- The school began as a coeducational seminary in 1851, and was chartered as a 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. It returned to coeducation in 1947, adopting its current name at this time.
Middlebury College (1883)
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (1885)
University of Mississippi (1885)
Pomona College, Claremont, California (1887)
George Washington University (1888)
University of Kentucky (1888)
Tulane University Pharamaceutical School (1888)
The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho (1891)
Stanford University, Stanford, California (1891)
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1892)
Auburn University (1892)
Macalester College (1893)
University of Connecticut (1893)
Johns Hopkins University Graduate School (1893)
University of Alabama (1893)
University of Tennessee (1893)
Boalt Hall (1894)
Beloit College (1895)
University of Pittsburgh (1895)
University of South Carolina (1895)
University at Buffalo Law School (1897)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (graduate students) (1897)

Dates USA educational institutions became mixed-sex through 1997

Virtually all of the thousands of institutions of higher education that were founded after Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 are coeducational.
Schools that were previously all-female are listed in italics.

1900	Denison University University of Rochester^[3] University of Virginia (nursing only)
1902	Miami University
1908	Reed College
1909	Tulane University School of Dentistry
1912	Marquette University^[24] Rice University
1914	Tulane University Medical School University of Pennsylvania Medical School
1917	Georgia Tech (until 1934)
1918	The College of William & Mary University of Georgia
1920	University of Virginia (graduate students)
1921	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1922	Northeastern University School of Law
1926	Centre College
1930	Roanoke College
1931	Seattle University
1933	Furman University
1941	St. John's College
1942	Clark University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Wake Forest University
1944	Bard College
1946	James Madison University (de facto) Le Moyne College
1947	Florida State University (originally coeducational, but a women's college from 1905–1947) University of Florida
1948	Brandeis University
1952	Lincoln University
1953	Georgia Tech (some programs) Harvard Law School
1955	Harvey Mudd College (first woman graduated in 1960)
1963	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (all programs) University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1964	Texas A&M University University of San Francisco
1965	Hampshire College University of California, Irvine
1966	James Madison University (official) Sarah Lawrence College
1968	Georgia Tech (all programs)
1969	Connecticut College Elmira College Franklin & Marshall College Georgetown University Kenyon College La Salle University MacMurray College Princeton University Saint Mary's University of Minnesota Siena Heights University Trinity College (Connecticut) University of the South Vassar College Yale University
1970	Boston College Colgate University Johns Hopkins University Pitzer College University of Mary Washington Union College University of Virginia (all programs) Williams College
1971	Bowdoin College Brown University Robert College Skidmore College Stevens Institute of Technology
1972	Davidson College Dartmouth College Harvard College - Harvard University Radford University Texas Woman's University University of Notre Dame Washington and Lee University Law School Wesleyan University
1973	California Maritime Academy
1974	Fordham College United States Merchant Marine Academy
1975	Amherst College
1976	Claremont McKenna College United States Air Force Academy United States Coast Guard Academy United States Military Academy United States Naval Academy
1978	Hamilton College
1980	Haverford College
1982	Mississippi University for Women
1983	Columbia College at Columbia University
1985	Washington and Lee University
1991	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
1993	The Citadel
1997	Virginia Military Institute (last state institution of higher learning to become coeducational)

References

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^ ^a ^b Jones, Christine. "Indiana University: The Transition to Coeduation". http://www.indiana.edu/~iuspa/journal/editions/2002/Jones.pdf. Retrieved 2010-01-11.
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^ "Quaker Heritage at Guilford College". http://www.guilford.edu/about_guilford/quaker/. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
^ "Hillsdale College - History & Misson". http://www.hillsdale.edu/about/history.asp. Retrieved 2010-01-15. (Hillsdale was the second college to grant four-year degrees to women, after Oberlin)
^ "The History of Olivet College". http://www.olivetcollege.edu/about/history.php. Retrieved 2010-01-14. (Olivet chartered as college in 1859)
^ "History of Urbana University". http://www.urbana.edu/index.php/about_us/university_relations/history_of_urbana_university/. Retrieved 2010-01-15. (Urbana: college-level classes began in 1854)
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