Famous US Universities

The Ivy League is a collection of 8 north-east American universities whose sports teams play in a college league. However, due to the high academic standards of these schools, the term has become associated with academic excellence in the country.

Brown University	Harvard University
Columbia University	University of Pennsylvania
Cornell University	Princeton University
Dartmouth College	Yale University

‘Little Ivies’ refers to the small, high quality and expensive private universities in the northeast that are not part of the official ‘Ivy League’ list.

Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts)	Lafayette College (Easton, Pennsylvania)
Bates College (Lewiston, Maine)	Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont)
Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine)	Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania)
Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania)	Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut)
Colgate University (Hamilton, New York)	Tufts University (Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts)
Connecticut College (New London, Connecticut)	Union College (Schenectady, New York)
Colby College (Waterville, Maine)	Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Hamilton College (Clinton, New York)	Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut)
Haverford College (Haverford, Pennsylvania)	Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts)

The term ‘Public Ivy’ is given to high quality US universities that are publically funded, providing education many believe as good as the private ‘Ivy League’ schools but at a less expensive price.

College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)	University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware)
Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”) (Atlanta, Georgia)	University of Florida (Gainsville, Florida)
Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)	University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)	University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa)
New College of Florida (Sarasota, Florida)	University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)	University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Pennsylvania State University (“Penn State”) (State College, Pennsylvania)	University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (“Rutgers”) (New Brunswick, New Jersey)	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
State University of New York at Binghamton (“Binghamton”) (Binghamton, New York)	University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)	University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas)
University of California (various campuses, California)	University of Vermont (Burlington, Vermont)
University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, Colorado)	University of Virgina (Charlottesville, Virginia)
University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
	University of Wisconsin – Madison (Madison, Wisconsin)

Atlanta, Georgia	University of Georgia (Athens, 113km NE) Georgia State University Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech”)
Austin, Texas	University of Texas Southwestern University
Boston, Massachusetts	Massachusetts Instistute of Technology (“MIT”) Harvard University Tufts University Wellesley College
Charlotte, North Carolina	Davidson College University of North Carolina
Charlottesville, Virginia	University of Virginia
Chicago, Illinois	Northwestern University University of Chicago Illinois Institute of Technology DePaul University Loyola University
Cincinnati, Ohio	Miami University (Oxford, 64km NW)
Columbus, Ohio	Ohio State University Ohio University (Athens, 105km SE)
Denver, Colorado	Colorado School of Mines (Golden, 19km E)
Detroit, Michigan	University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 56km W)
Houston, Texas	Rice University
Kansas City, Missouri	University of Missouri
Los Angeles, California	California Institute of Technology (“CalTech”) University of California Los Angeles (“UCLA”) University of Southern California (“USC”)
Miami, Florida	University of Miami
Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Marquette University University of Wisconsin – Madison (Madison, 124km W) University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Minneapolis, Minnesota	Macalester College University of Minnesota
Nashville, Tennessee	Vanderbilt University
New Orleans, Louisiana	Tulane University
New York, New York	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, 129km NE) Columbia University Cornell University New York University University of Rochester Vassar College
Orlando, Florida	University of Central Florida Rollins College (Winter Park, NE Orlando)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey, 72km NE) University of Pennsylvania Swarthmore College Haverford College Bryn Mawr College
Phoenix, Arizona	Arizona State University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania State University (“Penn State”) (State College, 185km E)
Portland, Oregon	Reed College
Providence, Rhode Island	Brown University
San Francisco, California	Stanford University University of California, Berkeley (“Berkeley”) Santa Clara University
St. Louis, Missouri	Washington University in St. Louis
Seattle, Washington	University of Washington
Washington, District of Columbia	Georgetown University George Washington University Howard University

Wall Street Journal / Times Higher Education Rankings