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Agnes Scott College is a private women's liberal arts college in Decatur, Georgia. The college enrolls approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Agnes Scott is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is considered one of the Seven Sisters of the South. It also offers co-educational graduate programs.
The college was founded in 1889 as Decatur Female Seminary by Presbyterian minister Frank Henry Gaines. In 1890, the name was changed to Agnes Scott Institute to honor the mother of the college's primary benefactor, Col. George Washington Scott. The name was changed again to Agnes Scott College in 1906, and remains today a women's college.
Notable alumnae
- Martha Bailey '97, professor of economics and scholar of how access to contraception has shaped women's lives
- Tommie Dora Barker, 1909, public librarian and founding dean of Emory Library School
- Margaret Booth (Agnes Scott Institute, d.), educational and cultural mentor for the Montgomery, Alabama area; inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame posthumously in 1999
- Mary Brown Bullock '66, president emerita and only alumna to serve as president of the college
- Jordan Casteel, '11, award-winning figure painter
- Goudyloch E. Dyer '38, Illinois state representative
- Margot Gayle '31x, American historic preservationist and author who helped save the Victorian cast-iron architecture in New York City's SoHo district
- Ivylyn Girardeau 1922, medical missionary in India and Pakistan
- Mary Norton Kratt, '58, writer of Charlotte history and Southern novels
- Kay Krill '77, president and chief executive officer of ANN INC., parent company of Ann Taylor and LOFT
- Anne Harris, '91 14th president of Grinnell College, PhD from the University of Chicago and medieval art historian
- Bertha "B" Holt '38 (d.), former North Carolina State Representative and children's rights advocate
- Anna Colquitt Hunter, founder of Historic Savannah Foundation
- Michelle Malone '90x, musician
- Catherine Marshall '36, author of the novel Christy, later made into a TV series and A Man Called Peter
- Joanna Cook Moore, actress and mother of Tatum O'Neal
- Wasfia Nazreen, 2006, Bangladeshi mountaineer, activist, and writer
- Jennifer Nettles '97, lead singer of the AMA and Grammy award-winning country music band Sugarland
- Marsha Norman '69, playwright
- Frances Freeborn Pauley '27, civil rights activist
- Agnes White Sanford 1919, author of The Healing Light
- Saycon Sengbloh '00, actress and singer
- Martha Priscilla Shaw, mayor of Sumter, South Carolina (1952–1956), first female mayor in South Carolina
- Cornelia Strong, 1901 (Agnes Scott Institute), professor, mathematician, and astronomer
- Jean H. Toal '65, Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court
- Leila Ross Wilburn 1904, architect
- Anna Irwin Young '10 (Agnes Scott Institute, d.), professor of mathematics, physics and astronomy