Navigating Your Way through the College Selection Process
Why a Women’s College Might Be the Right Fit for You?
Students from around the world come to study at private and public colleges and universities in the US. Among these schools, women’s colleges offer a distinctive undergraduate educational experience, both in and out of the classroom.
Finding the right fit in a college – the college at which you will thrive and reach your academic and personal potential, the college that will best prepare you for life after college—is one of the most important decisions you will make. Finding your right fit is all about you. It’s about who you are and what matters to you. It’s about your dreams and expectations—of yourself, your college experience, and your life after college in graduate school, career and community.
Why might a women’s college be the right fit for you?
Each women’s college has its own distinctive identity and culture. From the east coast to the west coast, from the Midwest to the south, women’s colleges are in and near the hearts of America’s great cities and deep in the bucolic country. Students come from all socioeconomic, ethnic, racial and religious groups, from across the United States and from many countries around the world, bringing with them their own diverse experiences and perspectives.
Women’s colleges have an unequivocal commitment to your education and success. Recently conducted research comparing the experience of female students at women’s colleges, coeducational private liberal arts colleges, and coeducational flagship public universities found that women at women's colleges are more engaged and more likely to experience high levels of academic challenge, engage in active and collaborative learning to a higher degree, and take part in activities that provide opportunities to integrate their academic and extracurricular experiences than their counterparts at co-educational colleges. Women at women's colleges tend to thrive studying such subjects as science and math, fields in which women are traditionally underrepresented.
From the faculty to the students, administrators and alumnae, women’s colleges are dedicated to giving you not only some opportunities, but every opportunity:
- A women’s college education enables students to engage with top faculty and resources. Women’s college graduates attribute their success to interaction with “a high quality teaching-oriented faculty.” They report strong benefits from mentoring, small classes and personal interaction with professors. At women’s colleges, all of the resources, from sophisticated research equipment to preeminent athletics facilities to internship and fellowship funding, are focused on and available to women students.
- A women’s college education creates leaders, communicators, and persuaders. Speaking out and speaking up—key components of leadership and civic engagement—are capacities actively developed at women’s colleges. Women’s college alumnae report more in-class experience with making presentations than their peers at other institutions and are more likely to gain leadership experience in student government and campus media.
- A women’s college education develops critical skills for life and career. As studies repeatedly underscore the need for critical thinking, global knowledge, intercultural competence, and real-world abilities, women’s colleges surpass public and private colleges in helping students learn to think analytically, bring social and historical perspective to issues, work as part of a team, write and speak effectively, make sound decisions, gain entry to a career, prepare for career change or advancement, and be politically and socially aware.
- A women’s college education proves its value over a lifetime. Women’s college graduates succeed in entering a range of career fields and graduate programs, regardless of their undergraduate major. More than 95% of women’s college alumnae believe the financial investment in their education was worthwhile and that the intellectual and personal capacities they gained are extremely important to them.
Finding the right fit is all about you. Women’s colleges are all about you!
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