Jackson College for Women

The Jackson College for Women, also sometimes known as Jackson College of Tufts University, was established in 1910 as a coordinate college associated with Tufts College, and later Tufts University, and located in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. The Jackson College and the Tufts College of Liberal Arts shared the same courses and faculty. But for much of its existence, Jackson College had its own student activities and student government, separate from that of Tufts, and its own dean. It was a prestigious women's college at its peak; in comparison to the Tufts undergraduate schools that men attended, Jackson College was considered harder to get admitted to and to have an academically stronger group of students. Students of this era were very proud of being associated with Jackson and felt identity with, and loyalty to, the Jackson name.

Over time, things changed, and female students felt more of a belonging to Tufts University itself. Jackson College was subsumed into the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences in stages in 1980, 1999–2000, and 2002, after which it remained a legal entity in name only.