Who was the first woman that got admitted into a university?

Question

When was this? What study did she folow? What university was it?

Answer 1

Christ knows, thats impossible to answer

Answer 2

hopefully there were one or two enlightened places that allowed female scholars before proper records of student attendance began, so we can't be sure. other than that you can be almost certain some kind of shakespearian situation of a young woman masquerading as a younger man or a eunuch / castrato happened successfully somewhere.

other than that.... maybe in renaissance europe somewhere, greece, or probably oxford (or bangor!) in the uk sometime in the 19th or late 18th century, or america when universities were first founded there.

in short, i don't know, but i don't feel confident for you getting an easy, clear-cut answer, as it's not like a massive blanket was lifted off the world sometime and an absolute male dominance of education was removed in one fell swoop. there's been a lot of progressive thinkers through history but they generally didn't make great record keepers. sorry.

Answer 3

Well, in ancient times, when Greeks had schools, similar to our today's Universities, they had female pupils! Sorry I do not recall the first!

Answer 4

Girton College Cambridge was opened in 1869 but it was not till 1948 (!) that it was finally admitted into the university,

In 1866 Miss Emily Davies and others interested in the higher education of women initiated a scheme for founding by public subscription a college for women designed to hold, in relation to girls' schools and home teaching, a position analogous to that occupied by the Universities towards the public schools for boys. On 16 October 1869, the College was opened at Benslow House, Hitchin, under the name of the College for Women. In 1872 the present site was purchased, and the College was renamed Girton college: the removal to the new buildings took place in October 1873.

For reasons of Victorian respectability, the College was located two miles north of the town centre to discourage marauding male undergraduates! It was originally seen as a Victorian country house, and the large size of the grounds relative to the other Colleges has allowed plenty of room for expansion since.

In 1872 an Association was formed to erect, maintain and conduct a College for the higher education of women; and to take such steps as from time to time may be thought most expedient and effectual to obtain for the students of the College admission to examinations for degrees of the University of Cambridge, and generally to place the College in connection with that University. By a number of Graces of the Senate and changes of the University statutes, members of the College were admitted to an increasing number of privileges of members of the University until under Statutes approved by the Regent House on 6 December 1947, and by H.M. the King in Council on 27 April 1948, women were admitted to full membership of the University of Cambridge, and Girton College received the status of a College of the University.

Newnham College, Cambridge was founded in 1871, two years later, to promote academic excellence for women.

New Hall was founded in 1954 as the "third foundation" for women students at Cambridge University at a time when Cambridge had the lowest proportion of women undergraduates of any university in the UK.

Oxford

Women were not admitted to membership of the University until 1920, although they had been allowed to sit some University examinations and attend lectures for over forty years by that date.

It was thanks to individual initiatives, and the pioneering work of the Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women (AEW) that women's colleges came to be established in Oxford. Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville opened in 1879, followed by St Hugh's in 1886 and St Hilda's in 1893.

St Anne's, which in 1952 was the last of the women's colleges to be incorporated by Royal Charter, originated as the Society of Oxford Home Students, catering for women students who lived with private families in Oxford while attending courses organised by the AEW. The five women's societies were granted full collegiate status in 1959.

The first Cambridge mens' college, Peterhouse, was founded in 1284. Merton College, Oxford was founded in 1264, Men got a 600 year head start, therefore.