Ivy League. The term Ivy League (“Ivies“) is used more broadly to refer to the eight schools that are globally-renowned as elite colleges associated with academic excellence, highly selective admissions, and social elitism. The term was first used in 1933.
The eight members of the Ivy League are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard University, Pennsylvania (U. Penn), Princeton, and Yale. All of the “Ivies” except Cornell were founded during the colonial period and therefore make up seven of the nine colonial colleges. The other two colonial colleges, Queens College (now Rutgers University) and the College of William & Mary, became public institutions.
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