Vassar College

American private liberal arts college, founded in 1861 and located in Poughkeepsie, New York. Vassar College is one of the historical "Seven Sisters" congregation — a group of elite Northeastern women's schools that provided the highest-level education on par with (then) men-only Ivy League.

"Seven Sisters" schools
◘ Mount Holyoke College (est. 1837) in South Hadley, Massachusetts
◘ Wellesley College (est. 1875) in Massachusetts
◘ Smith College (est. 1875), Northampton, Massachusetts
◘ Harvard University
◘ Bryn Mawr College (est. 1885) in Pennsylvania.
◘ Barnard College (est. 1889) in Manhattan, New York; now d with Columbia University