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.
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][8][9][10][unreliable source?
][11] Bates College[26][27]University of Iowa (first coeducational public or state university in the United States)[1][2] Cooper Union (free college; enrollment open to all genders, races, religions, economic classes) [36][37] Olivet College (co-ed secondary classes began in 1844; chartered as college in 1859)[38] Wells College (Coeducational in 2005) University of Minnesota[55]