| 1837 | Oberlin College (women were admitted to the "preparatory department" in 1833)[1][2][3] |
| 1844 | Hillsdale College[3][4][5] |
| 1845 | Franklin College (co-ed secondary-level classes began in 1842 at "Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute"; chartered as Franklin College in 1845)[6][7][3] |
| 1847 | Lawrence University
Otterbein University[3][8]
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)[3][9][10][11][unreliable source?][12] |
| 1847 | Earlham College[13] |
| 1849 | New-York Central College (disestablished 1860)[14] |
| 1851 | Waynesburg College[15] |
| 1852 | Westminster College[16] |
| 1853 | Antioch College[17]
Cornell College (originally Iowa Conference Seminary, co-ed classes start with founding 1853)[18]
Lawrence University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849)[19]
Monmouth College (admits women on equal basis from beginning)[20]
Willamette University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1842)[21] |
| 1854 | Muskingum University[22]
Pacific University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849)[23]
Urbana University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[24][25] |
| 1855 | Eureka College (admits women on an equal basis with men at its founding)[26]
Bates College[27][28]
University of Iowa (first coeducational public or state university in the United States)[1][2] |
| 1856 | Baldwin University (now Baldwin Wallace University) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1845)[29]
University of Evansville (formerly Moore's Hill College)[30]
St. Lawrence University[31]
Wilberforce University (first coeducational HBCU in the United States)[citation needed] |
| 1857 | Alfred University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1836; it received its university charter in 1857)[32][33]
Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854)[34] |
| 1858 | University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858)[35] |
| 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)[36]
Cooper Union (free college; enrollment open to all genders, races, religions, economic classes)[37][38]
Olivet College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1844; chartered as college in 1859)[39] |
| 1860 |
Wheaton College (Illinois)[40] |
| 1861 |
Plainfield College[41]Grinnell College[42] |
| 1862 | Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858)[citation needed] |
| 1863 | Kansas State University[43][44] |
| 1864 | Swarthmore College[45]
Blackburn College[46] |
| 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)[47][48] |
| 1867 | Carleton College[49]
DePauw University[50]
East Tennessee Wesleyan University (now Tennessee Wesleyan University; formerly Athens Female College)[51]
Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[citation needed]
Indiana University[52][53]
Lebanon Valley College[54]
McDaniel College[55] |
| 1868 | University of Missouri[56]
Oregon State University (co-ed secondary classes began about 1858; chartered as college in 1868)[citation needed]
Wells College (Coeducational in 2005)
University of Minnesota[57] |
| 1869 | Berea College[58]
Boston University[59]
Iowa State University[60][61]
University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866)[62]
Northwestern University[63]
Ohio University[64]
Washington University in St. Louis[17] |
| 1870 | Allegheny College[65] University of the Pacific (United States) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1852)[66]
University of California, Berkeley[53][67]
Carthage College[68]
Cornell University[69][70]
University of Illinois[53]
University of Iowa Medical School[71]
Knox College[72]
Michigan State University[73]
College of Wooster[74] |
| 1871 | Colby College[75] (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes)[53]
University of Michigan[76]
University of Nebraska–Lincoln[53]
Pennsylvania State University[77]
Syracuse University[2]
University of Vermont |
| 1872 | Tusculum College[78]
University of Akron (at that time "Buchtel College")[citation needed]
University of Maine[53]
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)[79] |
| 1873 | North Georgia Agricultural College, subsequently North Georgia College & State University; since 2013 merged into the University of North Georgia)[citation needed]
Ohio State University[53]
Susquehanna University[80]
Texas Christian University[citation needed] |
| 1875 | Purdue University[81]
St. Olaf College[82] |
| 1876 | University of Oregon[53] |
| 1877 | University of Colorado at Boulder[53]
Ohio Wesleyan University[83] |
| 1878 | Hope College[citation needed] |
| 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)[citation needed]
Emerson College[citation needed]
University of Pennsylvania (women previously admitted to non-degree-granting programs in 1876)[84]
University of Southern California[citation needed]
Ursinus College[85] |
| 1881 | Coe College[citation needed]
Hendrix College[citation needed] |
| 1882 | University of South Dakota[citation needed] |
| 1883 | Bucknell University[70]
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.)[86]
Middlebury College[citation needed]
University of Texas[citation needed] |
| 1884 | University of North Dakota[53] |
| 1885 | University of Mississippi[citation needed] |
| 1886 | University of Nevada, Reno[53] |
| 1887 | Baylor University[citation needed]
Gallaudet University (at the time "National Deaf-Mute College)[87]
Occidental College
Pomona College[citation needed]
Stetson University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1883)
University of Wyoming[53] |
| 1888 | George Washington University
Guilford College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1837; it became a college in 1888)[88]
University of Kentucky
Tulane University Pharmaceutical School |
| 1889 | Elon University[89]
West Virginia University[90] |
| 1891 | University of Arizona[53]
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)[53]
University of New Mexico[53]
University of Oklahoma[53]American International College[91] |
| 1893 | University of Alabama[53]
University of Connecticut
Johns Hopkins University Graduate School
Macalester College[92]
University of Tennessee |
| 1894 | Boalt Hall[93] |
| 1895 | Beloit College
University of Montana[53]
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) |