Attending a women's college has real advantages for today's young women. The Women's College Coalition recently published a study that identified many of the advantages students at women's colleges enjoy. Among them:

• Women attending women's colleges are more likely to experience high levels of academic challenge, engage in active and collaborative learning to a higher degree, and take part in activities that provide opportunities to integrate their curricular and co-curricular experiences than their counterparts at co-educational colleges.

• Women’s college alumnae report more in-class experience with making presentations than their peers at other institutions and are more likely to gain leadership experience in student government and campus media.

• Women’s colleges surpass all public and private colleges in helping students learn to think analytically, bring social and historical perspective to issues, work as part of a team, write and speak effectively, make sound decisions, gain entry to a career, prepare for career change or advancement, and be politically and socially aware.

• Women who graduate from a women’s college have an increased change of earning a graduate degree. Women’s college graduates succeed in entering a range of career fields and graduate programs, regardless of their undergraduate major.

• Women’s college graduates often attribute their success to interaction with “a high quality teaching-oriented faculty.”

• Women attending women's colleges report higher levels of engagement than women attending co-educational institutions.

• Women's colleges have extraordinary track records of success in teaching math and the sciences: we graduate women in these disciplines at 1½ times the rate of coeducational schools.