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The oldest extant mixed-sex institute of higher education in the United States is [[Oberlin College]] in [[Oberlin, Ohio]], which was established in 1833. Mixed-sex classes were admitted to the preparatory department at Oberlin in 1833 and the college department in 1837.<ref>{{cite web | title = One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage | url = http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html | access-date = 26 January 2010}}</ref><ref name=Indiana>{{cite web | last = Jones | first = Christine | title = Indiana University: The Transition to Coeduation | url = http://www.indiana.edu/~iuspa/journal/editions/2002/Jones.pdf | access-date = 11 January 2010}}</ref> The first four women to receive bachelor's degrees in the United States earned them at Oberlin in 1841. Later, in 1862, the first black woman to receive a bachelor's degree ([[Mary Jane Patterson]]) also earned it from Oberlin College. Beginning in 1844, [[Hillsdale College]] became the next college to admit mixed-sex classes to four-year degree programs.<ref>{{cite web | title = Hillsdale College – History & Misson | url = http://www.hillsdale.edu/about/history.asp | access-date = 15 January 2010}}</ref>
The [[University of Iowa]] became the first coeducational [[Public university|public]] or state university in the United States in 1855,<ref name=Roch>{{cite web | first = A.J. | last = May | title = University of Rochester History | url = http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=2319 }}</ref><ref name="University of Iowa Firsts">{{cite web |title=University of Iowa Firsts |url=http://www.uiowa.edu/facts/UI-firsts/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515022742/http://www.uiowa.edu/facts/UI-firsts/index.htm |archive-date=May 15, 2006}}</ref> and for much of the next century, public universities, and [[Land-grant university|land grant universities]] in particular, would lead the way in mixed-sex higher education. There were also many private coeducational universities founded in the 19th century, especially west of the Mississippi River. East of the Mississippi, [[Wheaton College (Illinois)]] graduated its first female student in 1862.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://a2z.my.wheaton.edu/wheaton-firsts|title=Wheaton "Firsts" - Wheaton History A to Z|website=a2z.my.wheaton.edu|access-date=2017-05-24}}</ref> [[Bates College]] in Maine was open to women from its founding in 1855, and graduated its first female student in 1869.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary W. Mitchell Class of 1869 – First Female Graduate |url=https://www.bates.edu/150-years/bates-greats/mary-w-mitchell/ |website=Bates College |publisher=Bates College |access-date=6 April 2020}}</ref> [[Cornell University]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/index.php?p=36|title=Our History|access-date= 21 February 2010}}</ref> and the [[University of Michigan]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Women_at_Michigan.htm|title=Dangerous Experiment}}</ref> each admitted their first female students in 1870.
Around the same time, [[Single-sex education|single-sex]] women's colleges were also appearing. According to Irene Harwarth, Mindi Maline, and Elizabeth DeBra: "[[Women's colleges in the United States|women's college]]s were founded during the mid- and late-19th century in response to a need for advanced education for women at a time when they were not admitted to most institutions of higher education."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/PLLI/webreprt.html|title=Women's Colleges in the United States: History, Issues, and Challenges|access-date=14 October 2006 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428110902/http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/PLLI/webreprt.html |archive-date=28 April 2006 }}</ref> Notable examples include the [[Seven Sisters (colleges)|Seven Sisters]] colleges, of which [[Vassar College]] is now coeducational and [[Radcliffe College]] has merged with [[Harvard University]]. Other notable women's colleges that have become coeducational include [[Wheaton College (Massachusetts)|Wheaton College]] in Massachusetts, [[Ohio Wesleyan Female College]] in [[Ohio]], [[Skidmore College]], [[Wells College]], and [[Sarah Lawrence College]] in New York state, [[Pitzer College]] in California, [[Goucher College]] in Maryland and [[Connecticut College]].
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