According to CollegeWise (2021), women’s college applicants typically share a few traits in common:

• Initiative: Willing to take action, take on leadership roles
• 好奇心: Willing to ask questions, raise your hand, and explore new things
• Expressiveness: Willing to share your perspectives and think critically

Women’s college students are able to observe women in leadership positions in their own institutions – 90% of women’s college presidents  are women, and more than 60% of faculty are women.

研究生s of women’s colleges:

• Women’s college graduates are more likely to pursue a graduate degree than their co-ed liberal arts and public university counterparts.
• Women’s college graduates have accumulated a variety of “firsts,” including the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, the first woman in a presidential cabinet, and the first woman to serve as the general of the U.S. 军队.
• Earn an average of $8,000 more per year than women who graduated from co-ed colleges.
• 是1.5 times more likely to major in math, science, or pre-med than women in co-ed schools.
• Represent 30 percent of Business Week’s list of rising stars in corporate America, 33 percent of female board members of Fortune 1000 companies and 20 percent of women in Congress (despite the fact that women’s colleges graduate fewer than 2 percent of college-educated women).

To learn more about why to choose a women’s college, read this report from CollegeWise (2021)