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The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States.It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
Category includes the 13 elite universities comprising the Ivy Plus grouping. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Stanford University , MIT , UC Berkeley , University of Chicago and Duke University are often considered to be the Ivy Plus institutions besides the original eight Ivy League universities.
Southern Ivies — Use of "Ivy" to characterize excellent universities in the U.S. South; Seven Sisters (colleges) — historically women's colleges founded as an answer to the (at the time) all male Ivy League: Wellesley College, Radcliffe College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Barnard College, Vassar College, and Bryn Mawr College.
Although Ivy League schools dominated the list of top universities, several U.S. public universities were among the top 10 in the world in U.S. News and World Report's ranking.
New York City's Cooper Union, which grants full scholarships to every student, snags the #4 value slot (#154 overall), with the College of the Ozarks (#6, #191 overall) and the University of ...
With a large percentage of students graduating from Ivy Leagues with top GPAs, Larry Summers, former Harvard president, is worried. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The Ivy League's international relations programs are ranked in Foreign Policy's "Best International Relations Schools in the World" article. [12] The rankings provide a glimpse of international relations as an academic and professional discipline, aggregating responses from 1,514 international relations scholars at U.S. colleges and ...