Spelman College is a four-year, historically black, liberal arts college for women located in Atlanta, Georgia. The private, independent institution was founded on April 11, 1881. As of February 2011, the college boasts in excess of 2,100 current students. According to its website, Spelman offers a Bachelor of Arts degree, with such majors as art, English, mathematics, music, philosophy and political science, among others. A Bachelor of Science degree is offered with majors in biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computer and information sciences, environmental science and studies, engineering/dual degree and physics.
Bennett College, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, was founded in 1873, originally in the basement of Warnersville Methodist Episcopal Church. Although originally begun as a coeducational institution, it became a college specifically for women in 1926. More than 5,000 women have graduated from the college since 1930. The three areas in which Bennett students may choose undergraduate majors and minors are humanities, social sciences and education, and natural and behavioral sciences/mathematics.
Although its charter was amended in 1954 to make it a coeducational institution, Barber-Scotia College was originally an institution for black women when it was begun in 1867 as Scotia Seminary. Its initial mission, as undertaken by Reverend Luke Dorland, was to establish "an institution for the training of Negro women" in the American South, mainly focused on preparing teachers and social workers. The college is located in Concord, North Carolina.
Also historically started as an institution solely for black women, what is today known as Bethune-Cookman, sprouted as the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in 1904. The school was the manifestation of the efforts of Mary McLeod Bethune, and transitioned into coed status when it merged with the Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Florida. At that time, the institution was a high school. Through several stages of growth, it attained university status in 2007, remaining a coeducational institution.