University of Cambridge doctorate or MA degree. For many years only male students were enrolled into the university. The first colleges for women were Girton College (founded by Emily Davies) in 1869 and Newnham College in 1872 (founded by Anne Clough and Henry Sidgwick), followed by Hughes Hall in 1885 (founded by Elizabeth Phillips Hughes as the Cambridge Teaching College for Women), Murray Edwards College (founded by Rosemary Murray as New Hall) in 1954, and Lucy Cavendish College in 1965. The first women students were examined in 1882 but attempts to make women full members of the university did not succeed until 1948.
Women's College of the University of Denver that the Colorado Women’s College merged with the University of Denver to form The Weekend College. University of Denver housed The Weekend College on their campus as they incorporated it with their College of Business. During the 1990s the Weekend College changed its name to its present-day name of The Woman’s College. This change coincided with The Women's College becoming an individual undergraduate college within the University of Denver’s academic system. In 2004, it moved into the Merle Catherine Chambers Center for the Advancement of Women. Opened in 2004, the Merle Catherine Chambers Center for the Advancement of Women currently