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Of the top 25, only four are public. The rest are all private.
There are eight "Ivies." Forbes lists "the next 20 Ivies, ten public and ten private."
Of the private, Vanderbilt is #9 or 10.
And look at this, of the ten public universities that are listed among the twenty new Ivies, The USAF Academy is #1. Neither of the other two academies even make the list. Wow. UT-Austin comes in at #7.
By the way, it's easy to remember the eight Ivies. They each trace their heritage to the original 13 colonies.
- In New England
- Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire (neither Maine nor Vermont were among the 13 original colonies)
- In north/central Atlantic:
- New York (2) -- Cornell and Columbia
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- None in the other colonies.
So if you can name "the original 13 colonies" and you know the "big university name" in each of those colonies, you can name the eight Ivies.
The 13 original colonies, founded between 1607 and 1733, were established along the Eastern seaboard. They are generally ordered by their founding (or initial permanent settlement) as follows: Virginia (1607), Massachusetts (1620/1630), New Hampshire (1623), New York (1624), Maryland (1634), Connecticut (1635), Rhode Island (1636), Delaware (1638), North Carolina (1663), South Carolina (1663), New Jersey (1664), Pennsylvania (1681), and Georgia (1733).
Your history lesson for the day.