Earliest Mixed-sex Higher Education Institutes (through 19th Century)
- Schools that were previously all-female are listed in bold.
| 1837 | Oberlin College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1833) |
| 1844 | Hillsdale College (second U.S. college to grant four-year degrees to women) |
| 1845 | Franklin College (co-ed secondary-level classes began in 1842 at "Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute"; chartered as Franklin College in 1845) |
| 1847 | 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) |
| 1849 | New-York Central College (disestablished 1860) Otterbein University |
| 1851 | Waynesburg College |
| 1852 | Westminster College |
| 1853 | Antioch College Lawrence University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1849) Willamette University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1842) |
| 1854 | Muskingum University Urbana University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850) |
| 1855 | Bates College University of Iowa (first coeducational public or state university in the United States) |
| 1856 | Baldwin University (now Baldwin Wallace University) (co-ed secondary classes began in 1845) St. Lawrence University 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) Hamline University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1854) |
| 1858 | University of Mount Union (co-ed classes began in 1846; chartered as college in 1858) |
| 1859 | Cooper Union Olivet College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1844; chartered as college in 1859) |
| 1862 | Baker University (co-ed secondary classes began in 1858) |
| 1863 | Kansas State University |
| 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) |
| 1867 | Carleton College DePauw University Hiram College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1850) Indiana University Lebanon Valley College |
| 1868 | Oregon State University (co-ed secondary classes began about 1858; chartered as college in 1868) University of Missouri |
| 1869 | Berea College Boston University Iowa State University University of Kansas (co-ed secondary classes began in 1866) University of Minnesota Northwestern University Ohio University Swarthmore College Washington University in St. Louis |
| 1870 | University of California, Berkeley Cornell University University of Illinois University of Iowa Medical School Knox College Michigan State University College of Wooster |
| 1871 | California Wesleyan College Colby College (until 1890, when women were resegregated into separate classes) University of Michigan University of Nebraska-Lincoln Pennsylvania State University Syracuse University University of Vermont |
| 1872 | 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) |
| 1873 | Ohio State University Texas Christian University |
| 1875 | Purdue University |
| 1876 | University of Oregon |
| 1877 | Ohio Wesleyan University University of Colorado at Boulder |
| 1878 | Hope College |
| 1880 | Emerson College University of Pennsylvania (women previously admitted to non-degree-granting programs in 1876) University of Southern California |
| 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.) Middlebury College University of Texas |
| 1884 | University of North Dakota |
| 1885 | University of Mississippi |
| 1886 | University of Nevada, Reno |
| 1887 | Baylor University 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) University of Kentucky Pomona College Tulane University Pharmaceutical School |
| 1889 | West Virginia University |
| 1891 | University of Arizona College of Idaho Stanford University |
| 1892 | Auburn University University of Chicago (women resegregated into separate classes in 1902 for their first two years) University of New Mexico University of Oklahoma |
| 1893 | University of Alabama University of Connecticut Johns Hopkins University Graduate School Macalester College University of Tennessee |
| 1894 | Boalt Hall |
| 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) |
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