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The colleges also offered broader opportunities in [[academia]] to women, hiring many female [[Faculty (university)|faculty]] members and [[academic administrator|administrator]]s.

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (founded in 1837) received its collegiate charter in [[1888]] and became Mount Holyoke Seminary and College. It became Mount Holyoke College in [[1893]]. Both [[Vassar College]] and [[Wellesley College]] were patterned after Mount Holyoke. <ref name="Crispen"> {{cite web| url=http://www.dean.sbc.edu/crispen.html|title=http://www.dean.sbc.edu/crispen.html| author=Jennifer L. Crispen| coauthors=| publisher=sbc.edu}}</ref>. Wellesley College was originally founded in [[1870]] as the Wellesley Female Seminary, and was renamed Wellesley College in [[1873]]. It opened its doors to students in [[1875]]. Radcliffe College was originally created in [[1879]] as The Harvard Annex for women's instruction by Harvard faculty. It was chartered as Radcliffe College by the [[Massachusetts|Commonwealth of Massachusetts]] in [[1894]]. Barnard College became affiliated with [[Columbia University]] in [[1900]], but it continues to be independently governed.

Mount Holyoke College and Smith College are also members of [[Pioneer Valley]]'s [[Five Colleges (Massachusetts)|Five Colleges]] consortium. [[Bryn Mawr College]] is a part of the [[Tri-College Consortium]] in suburban Philadelphia, with its sister schools, [[Haverford College]] and [[Swarthmore College]].