As part of your college search, you may be exploring whether to attend a women-only institution.
Many discuss the number one benefit: developing confidence. These schools help students find their voice more comfortably in an academic setting. In the long term, these students often leverage that confidence into executive roles or other positions of power.
The Women’s College Coalition says that women-focused academic experiences can greatly impact your education journey.
As a student in a women’s only college in the United States, you are twice as likely to complete a graduate degree. Remarkably, the research also finds that you’d be 12 times more likely to stick with math or hard sciences.
If you look in the halls of Congress, you’ll see strong evidence that these colleges can be a driving force of success. In fact, 20 percent of U.S. women legislators have graduated from women’s colleges or universities.
What are the benefits of a women’s undergraduate experience?
What types of benefits would you expect at a women’s only program? Compared to students at co-educational institutions, you will:
- Be more likely to join faculty-led research projects and witness teaching methods that respect different beliefs.
- Report higher levels of class participation, active learning, and faculty interaction
- Be more likely to want to influence the political structure, and to have worked in local, state, or national campaigns.
- Report having more successful careers, holding higher positions, increasing your earning power, and finding more satisfaction in your work.
