Spelman College is a private, historically Black, women's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a founding member of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman awarded its first college degrees in 1901 and is the oldest private historically Black liberal arts institution for women.
Harriet E. Giles and Sophia B. Packard founded Spelman College
Spelman College c. 1910
Spelman College sign outside campus gates
Museum of Fine Art
Women's colleges in the United States
Women's colleges in the United States are private single-sex U.S. institutions of higher education that only admit female students. They are often liberal arts colleges. There are approximately 26 active women's colleges in the United States in 2024, down from a peak of 281 such colleges in the 1960s.
Scripps College in Claremont, California
Wesleyan College
Vassar College in 1862
Agnes Scott College