The Northeast

According to alumni.harvard.edu, the • storied Ivy League is the athletic • conference which was established in • 1954. The formation of the Ivy League • was preceded by the Ivy Group • Agreement in 1945. The agreement set • academic, financial, and athletic • standards for the participating schools’ • football teams, including the prohibition • of athletic scholarships that remains in • place today. • These eight schools are the Ivy League: • • Harvard • • Yale • • Princeton • Trinity College Penn • •

• Brown • • Cornell • • Dartmouth • • Columbia • Just a few of the many liberal arts colleges that rival the Ivy League, by region: South

West • Midwest • • Wake Forest University • • Washington and Lee University • • Washington University in St. Louis

These eight public schools that Great Lakes/Michigan rival the Ivy League were nicknamed the “Public Ivies”: • Indiana University (Bloomington) • Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) • Michigan State University (East • College of William & Mary Lansing) (Williamsburg, Virginia) • The Ohio State University • Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) (Columbus) • University of California (campuses • University of Illinois (Urbana- as of 1985) Champaign) • University of Michigan (Ann • University of Iowa (Iowa City) Arbor) • University of Michigan (Ann • University of North Carolina at Arbor) Chapel Hill • University of Minnesota • University of Texas at Austin (Minneapolis–Saint Paul) • University of Vermont • University of Wisconsin (Madison) (Burlington) • University of Virginia Mid-Atlantic (Charlottesville) • University of Delaware (Newark) Just a few of the many Top State • University of Maryland (College Schools, by region: Park) • College of William & Mary West (Williamsburg, Virginia) • University of Virginia • University of Arizona (Tucson) (Charlottesville) • University of Colorado at Boulder • University of Washington (Seattle) References

Northeast • Greene, Howard; Matthew Greene (2001). The Public Ivies: America's • Pennsylvania State University Flagship Public Universities. New (University Park) York: HarperCollins. • Rutgers University (New • Greene, Howard; Matthew Greene Brunswick, New Jersey) (2009).The Hidden Ivies, 2nd • State University of New York at Edition: 50 top colleges - from Binghamton (also known as Amherst to Williams - That rival Binghamton University) the Ivy League. New York: • University of Connecticut (Storrs) HarperCollins. • Moll, Richard (1985). The Public Ivies: A Guide to America's best South public undergraduate colleges and universities. New York: Penguin • University of Florida (Gainesville) (Viking). • University of Georgia (Athens) • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • University of Texas at Austin