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Overview
Cottey College is a small women's college in Nevada, Missouri, distinctive nationally for its ownership structure: it is the only college owned and supported by the P.E.O. Sisterhood, a philanthropic women's organization with chapters across the United States and Canada. That relationship shapes the college's mission around women's leadership and gives students an unusually large, built-in network of alumnae and supporters well beyond the campus itself.
Academics
Cottey offers both associate and bachelor's degrees within a liberal-arts core, with class sizes small enough for close faculty relationships to be the norm rather than the exception. Leadership development is threaded through the curriculum and campus programming deliberately, not left to a single club or center.
Campus & student life
The signature feature of the Cottey experience is a funded international trip abroad offered to students as part of the college's mission, a benefit tied directly to the P.E.O. Sisterhood's philanthropic support that few colleges of Cottey's size can match. Campus life is close-knit by design, built around a small residential community of women.
Getting in
Applications tend to be read holistically, with attention to leadership potential and fit with a small, mission-driven women's college rather than formula-driven metrics alone.
After graduation
Alumnae carry an unusually active, lifelong connection to the college through P.E.O. chapters nationwide, which fund scholarships and stay engaged with Cottey long after graduation, a network more active than many small colleges of similar size can offer.
Admissions
Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)
Applying
cottey.edu ↗High school coursework
Required4 years of English (composition and literature) · 3 years of mathematics (Algebra I, Algebra II, and Geometry or equivalent) · 2 years of laboratory science · 2 years of history and government
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