What is meant by the term "Ivy League" university?

Question

Can you give examples?

Answer 1

The "Ivy League" is actually an athletic conference that was established in 1954. These eight schools are ranked the highest in education in the United States, and are some of the oldest schools here. They are all in the northeastern United States and all private schools.

The eight Ivy League schools are: Harvard University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and Princeton University.

Answer 2

The Ivy League is a college athletic league. All of the eight colleges/universities in the Ivy League are ultra-prestigious, highly selective schools in the Eastern USA. All of these schools are rather small -- most have only about 5000 undergraduates (except Cornell and Penn)

The eight schools are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale.

Many people use the term "Ivy League' simply to mean elite, selective private universities, but the eight schools named are the only ones that can correctly be called Ivy League - some other schools that are often compared to the Ivy League schools as considered to be their equals are Duke, Stanford and the University of Chicago.

Answer 3

They are so old and have been around so long the Ivy is growing out of the bricks.

And that list is pretty good

Harvard was the first in America started by the clergy as a school, eventually Europe accedited it and bestowed the rank of College and later it became a University of various Colleges.

It was originally a school of Arts and Sciences started in the 1700s and some of the original buildings are still there and covered in ivy.

I guess when a school is SO old that all their own Architecture students have to do is walk outside and look at their own deparment building for an example of old design, it's a pretty neat school!

Answer 4

This question has been answered to death. yes. there are 8 ivys. ivy league is a sports league. but does anyone know the genesis? I will contribute my 2 cents here.

back then there were sports conferences or divisions. There was (i think i was divisions).. division 1, 2, and 3, (represented by their roman numeral, I, II, III respectively). then they created the fourth... represented by the roman numeral IV... from which came the IV league... which ultimately morphed into the Ivy league... since, as one poster commented, many of the old buildings are covered in ivy during the summer and fall months!

In fact, Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, Penn, and Brown were all founded under British rule. Only Cornell (which along with Penn, are the butt of many jokes by other ivy leagues such as "UPENN, PENN State... what's the difference"... or columbia students shouting "saftey school, saftey school"... across the field to the opposing cornell fans)... was founded after the US became a country. Only cornell is a secular institution. the rest were all founded as religious institutions by religious men... and have since become aboninations to their original goals of missionary work and raising up new clergy. nowadays, they are bastions for anti-God thinking and proponents for every kind of vile ideology. But i digress.

Not all ivy leages are universities. Dartmouth is a COLLEGE... and the folks there will fight tooth and nail to keep it that way. They new president and the one before him sought to turn dartmouth into a harvard... brining in academic loners... enlarging graduate studies... etc, which resulted in an alumni uprising. Most of the alumni wish to see Dartmouth return to it's traditional roots... focusing on basic liberal arts curricula instead of exotic courses which are often easier and don't produce well rounded students (which is what dartmouth was most known for... drunk athlete scholars =)...)

well, that's my brain dump of ivy league knowledge for now.

oh one more thing. although ivy league schools consist of the schools mentioned above, there are non-ivy ivies... such as stanford, mit, caltech, uchicago, northwestern, duke... etc... these schools are equally hard to get into.

the next level down you have schools like tufts, georgetown, uva, berkeley, etc....

Answer 5

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

are the some of examples for ivy league universities..

Answer 6

Um Ivy grows on them? How are you am so glad you are back how was the vacation? Can't believe you didn't pop in and see me!!! oh well always next year missed you a bunch now ask some questions that I can answer lol

Answer 7

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