BALTIMORE (AP) — Notre Dame of Maryland University, the nation's first Catholic college to award a four-year degree to women, says it will admit men to its traditional undergraduate program starting next fall.
The NDMU Board of Trustees has voted unanimously that the University become co-educational and enroll men into the traditional undergraduate program starting in fall 2023.
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The school says its board of trustees voted unanimously Monday to become coeducational after a review of enrollment trends at women’s colleges.
The school says that while fewer than 2% of female students enroll in private, nonprofit women’s colleges and universities annually, there’s a growing need for higher education opportunities for traditional college-age men.
The school founded in 1895 as a college for women established a weekend college for adult undergraduates open to men in 1975 and has offered coeducational graduate programs since 1984.