Studies have consistently shown that women who graduate from women's colleges are more likely to:
- Obtain graduate degrees
- Gain a significant leadership role in college
- Possess more self-confidence and show more initiative
- Choose more traditionally male career paths
- Benefit from greater understanding of diversity than at co-ed colleges
- Score higher on standardized tests
- Develop significantly higher levels of self-esteem than other achieving women at co-ed institutions
- Report greater satisfaction with their college experience
- Engage in civic activities after college
- Develop higher order critical thinking skills