A College for Women

Benefits of Women's Colleges

Studies have found that, by attending women's colleges, women:

• Participate more fully in and out of class.
• Are more successful in careers; that is, they tend to hold higher positions, are happier, and earn more money.
• Have a higher percentage of majors in economics, math and life science today than men at coeducational colleges.
• Report greater satisfaction than their coed counterparts with their college experience in almost all measures — academically, developmentally, and personally.
• Continue toward doctorates in math, science and engineering in disproportionately large numbers.

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• Are three times more likely to earn a baccalaureate degree in economics and one and one-half times more likely to earn baccalaureates degrees in life sciences, physical sciences and mathematics than at a coeducational institution.
• Develop measurably higher levels of self-esteem than other achieving women in coeducational institutions. After two years in coeducational institutions, women have been shown to have lower levels of self-esteem than when they entered college.
• Score higher on standardized achievement tests.
• Tend to choose traditionally male disciplines, like the sciences, as their academic majors, in greater numbers.
• Are more likely to graduate.
• Tend to be more involved in philanthropic activities after college.

Source: http://www.womenscolleges.org