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The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. It consists of sixty U.S. universities (both public and private), and two universities in Canada.

AAU was founded in 1900 by a group of fourteen Ph.D.-granting universities in the U.S. to strengthen and standardize U.S. doctoral programs. Today, the primary purpose of the AAU is to provide a forum for the development and implementation of institutional and national policies promoting strong programs in academic research and scholarship and undergraduate, graduate, and professional education.

Members and their years of admission
AAU membership is by invitation only, and is extended only to those universities who are deemed by the AAU to have exceptional quality in their research and graduate education programs.

Canadian universities

 * McGill University (1926)
 * University of Toronto (1926)

Disenfranchised universities

 * Clark University (1900 - 1999) - Although a founding member, it left because its mission focus had changed from research to undergraduate education.

External link

 * Association of American Universities website