Ivy league

Ivy League
Founded	1954
Division	NCAA Division I
Branch in American Football	Football Championship Subdivision (FCS)
Members	8
Sports	33
Other names	The Ancient Eight (The old eight)
Location

The Ivy League (Ivy League or Ivy League) is an NCAA sports conference made up of eight private universities in the Northeast from United States. Its members in alphabetical order are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The term Ivy League is also used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight universities as a group with connotations of academic excellence, admissions selectivity, and social elitism.

Ivy League institutions are considered among the most prestigious universities in the world. News & World Report, including four Ivies in the top five (Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, and Yale). In the world ranking, it includes two Ivies in the top ten (Harvard and Columbia). News has named an Ivy League school the best nationally each year since 2001: to 2020, Princeton 11 times, Harvard 2, and two schools tied for first place five times. They are part of the Association of American Universities, an organization of leading research universities.

Origin of the name

Use of the term dates back to 1933, and it became official since the creation of NCAA Division I in 1954. All so-called Ivies (Ivy League institutions), with the exception of Cornell, were founded during the colonial period. For this reason, the universities of this conference are also known as "the eight ancient" or "the Ivies" (ancient eight or the Ivies, in English). A particular feature of the Ivy League is that the offer of sports scholarships at universities in this group is prohibited, unlike other NCAA Division I conferences where such scholarships can be offered. The league owes its name to the ivy (in English ivy), a climbing plant that covers the walls of many of the buildings of these British-style universities.

The name Ivy League has similar connotations to different groups of universities in other countries such as Oxbridge and the Golden Triangle in the United Kingdom, the C9 League in China, and the Imperial Universities in Japan.

Members

Logo	University	Location	Foundation	Type	Equipment
	Harvard University	Cambridge, Massachusetts	1636	Private	Crimson
	Yale University	New Haven, Connecticut	1701	Private	Bulldogs
	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	1740	Private	Quakers
	Princeton University	Princeton, New Jersey	1746	Private	Tigers
	Columbia University	New York, New York	1754	Private	Lions
	Brown University	Providence, Rhode Island	1764	Private	Bears
	Cornell University	Ithaca, New York	1865	Private	Big Red
	Dartmouth College	Hanover, New Hampshire	1769	Private	Big Green