I was wondering, are there any new all-male colleges being proposed? I know that there are 3 right now
St. John’s in Minnesota is another existing U.S. men’s college. Has a really nice campus from what I’ve heard.
I am just disappointed at the lack of available all-male college options. We used to have dozens of them.
The decline of all male schools has very little to do with the feminist movement and more to do with the fact that the majority of men like to have women around. It’s called supply and demand.
Agreed with @doschicos. A majority of young men want to be around other women. Young women don’t mind as much being around just other women and don’t want to be around young men all the time.
Williamson Free School of Mechnical Trades in PA is also an all-male school. I know Wikipedia is not the most reliable source but (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_colleges_in_the_United_States) it appears a lot of seminaries and Jewish schools also have a predominantly male student body.
Feminism literally has nothing to do with the fact that most schools are now coed. In fact, some of the most left-leaning schools exclusively educate women. Going to an All Boy’s school won’t stop you from interacting with women in the real world. And shocker shocker, a lot of them appreciate equality.
Hampden-Sydney really does seem like your best bet though, so I don’t know what you’re looking for. And judging by your personality (prep) and what you were looking for in other threads, Morehouse is not for you.
Isn’t Deep Springs all-male? It’s a unique program overall, though, and probably unsuitable for the OP.
The closure of single-sex colleges has very little to do with feminism or any other ism. It is about changing demographics, what the market is demanding and economic realities.
Just get off the computer, spend some time with people who are different from you, and visit some of these colleges.
South Dakota School of Mines is a great STEM school for cheap. The ratio is around 10:1 so I would say that’s close enough.
I agree that the reason most all-male schools are no longer all male is simply because men wanted women at their schools.
There used to be a LOT more all-women schools, too, but many of them changed for the same reason.
There are co-ed schools that are still lopsided male, if that’s what you want.
Yes there used to be a lot more all-women’s colleges, but there are still many left. There are only FOUR all-male schools left, and only 2 (Hampden-Sydney and Wabash) are any good.(Morehouse is terrible) I am upset, because I wish there was still an all-male college in the Northeast. There IS a place for all-male schools in higher education, and I feel they are not appreciated.
Economics. Supply and Demand. It’s a Capitalistic thing. If you are against leftism and as right wing as you sound, Capitalism is a thing you should know about. If there was a need, it would be filled. Sign up for Intro to Economics for the Fall of your freshman year. College is about stretching your brain a little.
The only all male college in the country that rejects more than half of applicants is the 26 person free college, Deep Springs. Either there’s a huge pent up demand for an all male college, and the only reason these schools aren’t more popular is because they’ve massively failed to market themselves, or most male students just have no interest in going to an all male college.
By the way, droves of women’s colleges have either closed or gone co-ed since the 1960s. Much of that is due to feminism and the desire by women to go to the top colleges in the country. Freaking leftists wanting equality…
@whenhen
“freaking leftists wanting equality” I have no issue with women wanting to go to Harvard or Yale, but why do they DEMAND admission to all-male schools? Deep Springs will soon be co-ed because women are demanding a chance to apply. Don’t tell me feminism has nothing to do with the decline of all-male schools. I agree that there is more to it, but feminism is certainly part of ir. W&L and Davidson should still be all-male.
The only reason there aren’t as many all-men’s colleges around is because the average teenage boy isn’t really interested spending four years away from women. Most single-sex schools have gone co-ed because as sex and women in higher education have become less taboo, fewer people are interested in single sex schools. Plenty of all-girls schools have closed down too- just look at Sweet Briar College. That’s not feminism, that’s economics- no demand for single sex schools? Well, then there won’t be a supply.
Go to Hampden-Sydney. Plenty of people think like you there; you’ll find your niche very easily…
Because Deep Springs is one of the most unique schools in the country? Oh and the [all male student body and trustees](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/09/20/deep_springs_college_will_admit_women) voted for the school to go co-ed. Washington & Lee went co-ed thanks to the [declining number of male applicants](Washington and Lee University - Sign In). I have no idea why Davidson went co-ed (presumably for the same reason as W&L) but feel free to research that yourself.
My husband and I both attended single-sex boarding schools. We attended colleges that were nominally single sex at the time. His (Columbia) began admitting women in the 1980s after mine (Barnard) voted repeatedly not to sacrifice their independence and merge with Columbia. His prep school is co-ed, while mine remains all-girls. He thinks co-education was the best thing to happen to American education. Neither of my boys would have considered any single-sex school. If I had a daughter, she would be able to decide. One reason some traditional women’s schools and colleges have chosen to remain single-sex is that girls often are shy about excelling academically and asserting themselves in the presence of boys and men. This is more true in some other cultures, and some all-girl schools now rely on international students to bolster enrollment. Colleges like Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, Pitzer (only all-women for a few years following its founding), and many public colleges that originated as teacher-training institutions, have successfully admitted men.
What do you perceive as the benefits of an all male college experience?
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg06_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1480 indicates that Hampden - Sydney has 1 female student. It also does not seem to be too satisfying to its students – only 77% of frosh return, and the overall graduation rate is only 62% (though almost all of them do so in four years).
Morehouse College is not “terrible.” I did my graduate work at Berkeley, and knew about a dozen graduate students from Morehouse and Spelman… they were easily on par with the students who went to Ivy League undergrad institutions. One of my friends who went to Morehouse turned down Stanford and MIT undergrad.