Ivy League

This article is about the group of colleges and the athletic conference that gave the group its name. For other uses, see Ivy League (disambiguation).

Ivy League
AssociationNCAA
Founded1954; 70 years ago (1954)
CommissionerRobin Harris[1] (since 2009)
Sports fielded
  • 33
    • men's: 17
    • women's: 16
DivisionDivision I
SubdivisionFCS
No. of teams8
HeadquartersPrinceton, New Jersey, U.S.
RegionNortheast
Official websiteivyleague.com
Locations
Location of the eight Ivy League universities

Location of the eight Ivy League universities

The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The term Ivy League is used more broadly to refer to the eight schools that belong to the league, which are globally-renowned as elite colleges associated with academic excellence, highly selective admissions, and social elitism.[2][3][4][5][6] The term was used as early as 1933, and it became official in 1954 following the formation of the Ivy League athletic conference.[7]

The eight members of the Ivy League are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The conference headquarters is in Princeton, New Jersey. All of the "Ivies" except Cornell were founded during the colonial period and therefore make up seven of the nine colonial colleges. The other two colonial colleges, Queens College (now Rutgers University) and the College of William & Mary, became public institutions.

  1. ^ "Executive Director Robin Harris". Archived from the original on April 5, 2016. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
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  7. ^ "Ivy League History and Timeline". Archived from the original on April 20, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2015.