The Ivy League consists of eight prestigious universities in the northeastern United States. These schools are:
- 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)
- University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
- Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
These institutions are known for their academic excellence, selectivity, and historic significance, and they originally formed an athletic conference