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The term Ivy League originally denoted strictly an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States, but its meaning has broadened.

Other Ivies
Marketing groups, journalists, and some educators sometimes promote other colleges as "Ivies", as in Little Ivies, Public Ivies, Southern Ivies, and Canadian Ivies. These uses of ivy are intended to promote the other schools by comparing them to the Ivy League, but unlike the "Ivy League" label, they have no canonical definition. For example, in the 2007 edition of Newsweek's "How to Get Into College Now", the editors designated 25 schools as "New Ivies," some of which share no characteristics with the Ivy League colleges except a good reputation.

The term Ivy Plus is sometimes used to refer to the Ancient Eight plus several other schools for purposes of alumni associations, university affiliations, or endowment comparisons. In his book Untangling the Ivy League, Zawel writes, "The inclusion of non-Ivy League schools under this term is commonplace for some schools and extremely rare for others. Among these other schools, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University are almost always included. The University of Chicago and Duke University are often included as well."

List of colleges

 * Ivy League
 * Brown University
 * Columbia University
 * Cornell University
 * Dartmouth College
 * Harvard University
 * Princeton University
 * University of Pennsylvania
 * Yale University


 * The following list is colleges that most would consider Ivy League, in the colloquial definition
 * Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Stanford University
 * California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
 * University of Chicago


 * Sometimes
 * Duke University

Similar terms

 * Little Ivies
 * Public Ivies
 * Southern Ivies
 * Canadian Ivies