What does Ivy League mean with respect to colleges?

Answer 1

The Ivy League is an athletic conference or the eight private schools (colleges) that make up that conference. These institutions of higher learning are all located in the northeastern U.S., and the schools included (in order of age, oldest first) are Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Darthmouth and Cornell. A link is provided to the Wikipedia article on the Ive League so you can check data and gather more.

Answer 2

Ivy League is an association consisting of 8 United States university. The term "Ivy League" has connotations of academic excellence and academic elitism. Members also often called the Ancient Eight (Eight Old School).

All members have common characteristics: they are the university's most prestigious universities in the UNITED STATED and almost always ranked top in the list of top UNITED STATED universities, they also are part of the universities with the largest financial revenue in the world.

In addition, the number of graduate students is also quite small in the eighth university, between 4100 to 13,700 to Dartmouth and Cornell. They're all located in the northeast United States and all of them founded in the UNITED STATED colonial period except Cornell.

Ivy League members are all private universities, except for Cornell which is half private.

Answer 3

Penn

Princeton

Cornell

Brown

Dartmouth

Columbia

Harvard

Yale