Seven Sisters of the South

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The Seven Sisters of the South refers to a group of highly regarded American women's colleges in the Southern United States. The moniker is a response to the group of women's colleges in the Northern United States which are known as the Seven Sisters.


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The members of the Seven Sisters of the South are ill-defined, but four of the colleges are said to be:

  1. Agnes Scott College (Decatur, Georgia)[1]
  2. Hollins University (Roanoke, Virginia) —Has co-ed graduate program[2]
  3. Mary Baldwin College (Staunton, Virginia) —Has co-ed graduate program[2]
  4. Sweet Briar College (Sweet Briar, Virginia)[2][3]

Other women's colleges in the south include:

  1. Bennett College (Greensboro, North Carolina) - historically black college
  2. Brenau University (Gainesville, Georgia)
  3. Columbia College (Columbia, South Carolina)
  4. Converse College (Spartanburg, South Carolina)
  5. Judson College (Alabama) (Marion, Alabama)
  6. Meredith College (Raleigh, North Carolina)
  7. Peace College (Raleigh, North Carolina)
  8. Salem College (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
  9. Spelman College (Atlanta, Georgia)- historically black college
  10. Stephens College (Columbia, Missouri)
  11. Wesleyan College (Macon, Georgia)
  12. Trinity Washington University (Washington, D.C.)

  1. Randolph College (Lynchburg, Virginia) - originally Randolph Macon Woman's College, the college changed its name when it became coeducational in 2007
  2. Sophie Newcomb College in Louisiana which has been assimilated into Tulane University
  3. University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, Virginia)

  1. ^ http://notduck.com/Other/Colleges.html
  2. ^ a b c http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15463035/site/newsweek/
  3. ^ http://www.dean.sbc.edu/crispen.html


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