Ivy League colleges and universities in close up
What is Ivy League? The Ivy League is an athletic conference composed of sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group. The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. Location Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island Columbia University - New York City, New York Cornell University - Ithaca, New York Dartmouth College - Hanover, New Hampshire Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusetts Princeton University - Princeton, New Jersey University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut