Seven Sisters Colleges
See also: Timeline of women's colleges in the United States| Institution | Location | Present Day School type | Full-time enrollment | First admitted students | College chartered | Traditional affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Holyoke College (originally Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) |
South Hadley, Massachusetts | Private women's college | 2,300 | 1837 | 1888 | Dartmouth College |
| Vassar College | Poughkeepsie, New York | Private coeducational | 2,400 | 1865 | 1861 | Yale University |
| Wellesley College | Wellesley, Massachusetts | Private women's college | 2,300 | 1875 | 1870 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University |
| Smith College | Northampton, Massachusetts | Private women's college | 2,750 | 1875 | 1871 | Yale University |
| Radcliffe College (originally The Harvard Annex) |
Cambridge, Massachusetts | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (no longer accepts students) | n/a | 1879 | 1894 | Harvard University |
| Bryn Mawr College | Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania | Private women's college | 1,229 | 1885 | 1885 | Primary: Haverford College,
Secondary: Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College |
| Barnard College | Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York | Private women's college affiliated with Columbia University | 2,356 | 1889 | 1889 | Columbia University |
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