the seven oldest and most respected US women’s colleges. They are: Barnard in New York City (associated with Columbia University ), Bryn Mawr in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania , Mount Holyoke in South Hadley, Massachusetts , Radcliffe in Cambridge , Massachusetts (associated with Harvard University forming the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard in 1999), Smith in Northampton, Massachusetts, Vassar (which now also has male students) in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Wellesley in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Compare Ivy League .