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Women's college in Nashville, Tennessee
Ward–Belmont College was a women's college located in Nashville, Tennessee. It formed from the merger of the Ward Seminary for Young Ladies and Belmont College for Young Women in 1913. The college was located on the grounds of the Belmont Mansion, the antebellum estate of Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham. It was the first junior college in the South to receive full accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The college was sold for financial reasons in 1951. Its grounds were used to create Belmont College (now Belmont University).

In 1865, William E. Ward and his wife, Eliza Hudson Ward, opened the Ward Seminary for Young Ladies in Nashville, Tennessee. The Education Bureau in Washington, DC, ranked Ward Seminary among the top three educational institutions for women in the nation. The school also emphasized athletics, organizing the first girls' varsity basketball team in the South and one of the first in the nation. Belmont College for Young Women, founded by Susan L. Heron and Ida E. Hood, opened on September 4, 1890. Modeled on the women’s colleges of the Northeast, the school was established on a site centered on Belmont, the former home of Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham, which was built in 1850. Ward Seminary and Belmont College for Young Women merged in 1913 to form Ward Belmont, the first junior college in the South to receive full accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Dr. John Diell Blanton was the first president of Ward Belmont; he was previously the president of Ward Seminary since 1883. These dormitories are still in use at Belmont University. In 1951, under financial constraints, Ward Belmont's campus was sold to the Tennessee Baptist Convention. The campus was used to establish Belmont College (now Belmont University). A new, modern, nonresidential girls' high school, Harpeth Hall School, was established on the Estes estate in the affluent Green Hills section of Nashville to take the place of Ward Belmont. The original campus remained under the aegis of the Tennessee Baptist Convention until 2007 when Belmont University became independent of its control.

Club Village was a collection of ten houses that were made for Ward Belmont's social clubs. The social clubs included Anti Pandora, Twentieth Century, Del Vers, Tri K, Penta Tau, X. L., Osiron, Agora, A. K., and F. F. Each of the houses included a formal club room, kitchen, game room, and music room. At the start of the academic year, students would engage in a "rushing" period in which they would learn about the different clubs. Every student who participated in this period was accepted into one of the clubs. It had a chapter of Alpha Sigma Alpha from December 15, 1905 to 1909.