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 to degree-granting college-level courses.
Many of the earliest mixed-education institutes offered co-educational secondary school-level classes for three or four years before co-ed college-level courses began – these situations are noted in the parentheticals below.
| 1837 | Oberlin College (women were admitted to the "preparatory department" in 1833)[1] | |
| 1844 | Hillsdale College[2] [3] | |
| 1845 | Franklin College (co-ed secondary-level classes began in 1842 at "Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute"; chartered as Franklin College in 1845)[4] [5] | |
| 1847 | Lawrence University 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)[6] [7] [8] [9] | |
| 1847 | Earlham College[10] | |
| 1849 | New-York Central College (disestablished 1860)[11] Otterbein University[12] | |
| 1851 | Waynesburg College[13] | |
| 1852 | Westminster College[14] | |
| 1853 | Antioch College Cornell College (originally Iowa Conference Seminary, co-ed classes start with founding 1853)[15] Lawrence University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849)[16] Willamette University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1842)[17] | |
| 1854 | Muskingum University[18] Pacific University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849)[19] Urbana University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850)[20] [21] | |
| 1855 | Eureka College (First school in Illinois and third in the nation to admit women on an equal basis with men at its founding) [22] Bates College[23] [24] University of Iowa (first coeducational public or state university in the United States)[25] | |
| 1856 | Baldwin University (now Baldwin Wallace University) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1845)[26] University of Evansville (formerly Moore's Hill College)[27] St. Lawrence University[28] Wilberforce University (first coeducational HBCU in the United States) | |
| 1857 | Alfred University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1836; it received its university charter in 1857)[29] [30] Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854)[31] | |
| 1858 | University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858)[32] | |
| 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)[33] Cooper Union (free college; enrollment open to all genders, races, religions, economic classes) [34] [35] Olivet College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1844; chartered as college in 1859)[36] | |
| 1860 | Wheaton College (Illinois)[37] | |
| 1861 | North Central College (as Plainfield College)[38] Grinnell College[39] | |
| 1862 | Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858) | |
| 1863 | Kansas State University[40] [41] | |
| 1864 | Swarthmore College[42] | |
| 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)[43] [44] | |
| 1867 | Carleton College[45] DePauw University[46] Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850) Indiana University[47] [48] Lebanon Valley College[49] McDaniel College[50] | |
| 1868 | University of Missouri[51] Oregon State University (co-ed secondary classes began about 1858; chartered as college in 1868)Wells College (Coeducational in 2005) University of Minnesota[52] | |
| 1869 | Berea College[53] Boston University[54] Iowa State University[55] [56] University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866)[57] Northwestern University[58] Ohio University[59] Washington University in St. Louis[60] | |
| 1870 | Allegheny College[61] University of California, Berkeley[62] Carthage College[63] Cornell University[64] [65] University of Illinois University of Iowa Medical School[66] Knox College[67] Michigan State University[68] College of Wooster[69] | |
| 1871 | California Wesleyan College Colby College[70] (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes) University of Michigan[71] University of Nebraska-Lincoln Pennsylvania State University[72] Syracuse University University of Vermont | |
| 1872 | Tusculum College[73] University of Akron (at that time "Buchtel College") University of Maine 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)[74] | |
| 1873 | North Georgia College & State University (then North Georgia Agricultural College; since 2013 merged into the University of North Georgia) Ohio State University Susquehanna University[75] Texas Christian University | |
| 1875 | Purdue University[76] St. Olaf College[77] | |
| 1876 | University of Oregon | |
| 1877 | University of Colorado at Boulder Ohio Wesleyan University[78] | |
| 1878 | Hope College | |
| 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) Emerson College University of Pennsylvania (women previously admitted to non-degree-granting programs in 1876)[79] University of Southern California Ursinus College[80] | |
| 1881 | Coe College Hendrix College | |
| 1882 | University of South Dakota | |
| 1883 | Bucknell University 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.)[81] Middlebury College University of Texas | |
| 1884 | University of North Dakota | |
| 1885 | University of Mississippi | |
| 1886 | University of Nevada, Reno | |
| 1887 | Baylor University Gallaudet University (at the time "National Deaf-Mute College)[82] Occidental College Pomona College Stetson University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1883) University of Wyoming | |
| 1888 | George Washington University Guilford College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1837; it became a college in 1888)[83] University of Kentucky Tulane University Pharmaceutical School | |
| 1889 | Elon University[84] West Virginia University[85] | |
| 1891 | ||
| 1892 | Auburn University Greenville University University of Chicago (women resegregated into separate classes in 1902 for their first two years) University of New Mexico University of OklahomaAmerican International College[86] | |
| 1893 | University of Alabama University of Connecticut Johns Hopkins University Graduate School Macalester College[87] University of Tennessee | |
| 1894 | Boalt Hall[88] | |
| 1895 | Beloit College University of Montana 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) |