Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a leading liberal arts college in the United States, founded in 1926 as a women's college, and then co-educated in 1969. It was originally founded as a women's college in 1926 and became coeducational in 1969, having rejected a request for merger. Sarah Lawrence College was ranked the most expensive college in the nation in 2010-2011; it was ranked 59th in the 2015 list of U.S. liberal arts colleges;