The term "Ivy League" is informally used to describe eight East Coast universities—Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale—which are acknowledged as among the most...

A small number of elite college and universities in America are known by this phrase. It is both a laudatory and divisive term—laudatory because of the academic achievement of many of its students, divisive because they are more easily entered by...

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in the Northeastern United States. The term is now most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group.[1] The term has...