Why The Women's College?
The Women's College at the University of Denver offers a unique college experience to women who have already accomplished much in their lives. Our students are women who have had careers and are ready for their next promotion. They are also women who are just beginning their careers and who want a more focused approach to education than may be available through a traditional residential college experience. They are women who have families, whose children are grown, or who are single parents starting over.
The Women's College offers a traditional degree in a non-traditional setting and an opportunity to grow and learn in an environment where academic goals are attainable and students encourage one another's success. Courses at The Women's College are challenging, fun and require dedication and commitment to studying, to participating in class, and most of all to believing in oneself.
Why The Women's College — because you believe in yourself! You can achieve your academic, professional, and personal goals and The Women's College can help you begin to realize those goals in a prestigious and convenient, and affordable format.
Academic Achievement
The all-women's learning environment at The Women's College enables you to earn a bachelor's degree from the University of Denver in an atmosphere that fosters your creative learning processes, opens the door to share your real-world experiences, provides structure and recognition, and challenges you to master a subject area. Honoring liberal arts education and fostering the creative learning process, our curriculum is designed for contemporary adult women by faculty members from DU's business, communication, and computer science departments, as well as other academic units throughout the University.
Our curriculum is designed for women who want to include higher education as a priority in their lives. Our unique learning environment provides this education in a format and schedule that makes it possible for women to balance earning a bachelor's degree with their professional and personal commitments.
According to The Women's College Coalition in Washington, D.C., women who attend women's colleges:
- Participate more fully in and out of class
- Score higher on standardized achievement tests
- Are more likely to graduate
- Continue toward graduate study in disproportionately large numbers
Source: www.womenscolleges.org/benefits.htm
—Margo Espenlaub, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Student Development
Professional Achievement
Advancing your career with a bachelor's degree from The Women's College of the University of Denver includes participation in career-relevant coursework that has helped many students like you gain promotions or start new careers. Others have been inspired to begin their own businesses.
The degree you will earn will help build your critical thinking, time management, communication and networking skills. You will learn strategic problem-solving and organizational techniques that you can apply immediately in your daily work routine.
Traditionally, women who have achieved a higher level of education have been able to increase their earning potential. The Status of Women in Colorado, a report produced by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, states that “between 1979 and 1997, women with higher levels of education in both Colorado and the United States saw their median annual earnings increase substantially more than women with lower levels of educational attainment.”
The Women's College can help you attain a higher level of education. Our degree programs emphasize interactive learning by fostering your critical, creative, and strategic thinking abilities.
Each program is designed to provide students levels of theory, technical skills, and historical and cultural awareness.
- Bachelor of Business Administration
- This program encompasses business principles and practices and an in-depth understanding of business theory and concepts. More »
- Bachelor of Arts in Communication
- This program focuses on your choice of culture and communication, communication management, interpersonal communication, or general communication. More »
- Bachelor of Arts in Information Technology Studies
- This program includes computer analysis, programming, administration, and management. More »
- Bachelor of Arts in Law and Society
- This program focuses on how law matters in peoples lives, and how people's lives matter in law. More »
The Women's College Coalition notes that women attending women's colleges:
- Are more successful in their careers; that is, they tend to hold higher positions, are happier, and earn more money
- Constitute more than 20% of women in Congress, and 30% of a Business Week list of rising women stars in Corporate America
- Have more opportunities to hold leadership positions and are able to observe women functioning in top jobs (90% of the presidents and 55% of the faculty are women)
Source: www.womenscolleges.org/benefits.htm
—Sue Haskell, alumna
Personal Achievement
The Women's College fosters a community in which women earn a degree while building a network of lasting friendships based on mutual respect, support, and understanding. The Women's College students and alumnae help each other succeed. You will learn to become your own advocate and perhaps to lead others. Most importantly, you will set an unwavering example for other young women (maybe even your own children), demonstrating that goals can be achieved with hard work and determination.
You will share in opportunities for intellectual development as you expand your vocabulary, practice communication skills, work on team projects, and participate in discussions both in and out of the classroom. The community you are entering at The Women's College offers an intellectual support system. “Intellectual support seems to prevail in the classrooms of all-women colleges. As a result, women at these schools are more likely to take risks, to put themselves forward verbally, to assume leadership roles, both while in college and after graduation.” Source: www.womenscolleges.org/benefits.htm
Our community stimulates an environment filled with an enthusiasm for knowledge and learning, and many of The Women's College students graduate with honors. Even students who did not enjoy earlier educational experiences find the atmosphere at The Women's College exciting and rewarding. The Women's College is a second chance to gain an education — an opportunity to start something new; perhaps something they have always dreamed of doing. The Women's College curriculum and faculty inspire students to take risks and to extend themselves and their learning beyond what they previously thought possible, both inside and outside of the classroom.
The Women's College Coalition reports that, by attending women's colleges, women:
- Report greater satisfaction with their college experience in almost all measures — academically, developmentally, and personally
- Develop measurably higher levels of self-esteem than other achieving women in coeducational institutions
- Tend to be more involved in philanthropic activities after college
Source: www.womenscolleges.org/benefits.htm
—Estella Rummelein, alumna
Why The Women's College?
Because your dreams shouldn't wait any longer.
