Ivy league
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| 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) | |||
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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 |