World ranking 20 16: 1
World ranking 20 17: 1
Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Born in 1636, it ranks first in the world for many years and is a dream school for students all over the world!
2. Yale University
World ranking 20 16: 14.
World ranking 20 17: 14.
Yale University attaches great importance to undergraduate education. As one of the most influential private universities in the United States, it is also the third university established in American history, which is famous for its law school major!
3. Princeton University
World ranking 20 16: 13.
World ranking 20 17: 8
Princeton University is the most elite school in the Ivy League. Enjoy the world-famous tradition of attaching importance to quality, research and theory, among which mathematics, physics and other majors are world-class!
4. Columbia University
World ranking 20 16: 9
World ranking 20 17: 9
Columbia University is located in the most prosperous Manhattan in new york, adjacent to Wall Street, so its financial and economic majors are world-famous.
5. University of Pennsylvania
World ranking 20 16: 14.
World ranking 20 17: 17.
The University of Pennsylvania is the fourth oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and the first modern institution of higher learning engaged in science, technology and humanities education in the United States.
6. Brown University
World ranking 20 16: 99
World ranking 20 17: 85
Brown University is one of the most difficult universities in the United States, and one of its greatest characteristics is "small but refined". Today, with the increasing university population, Brown University still maintains a strict enrollment system and a very high entrance threshold.
7. Cornell University
World ranking 20 16: 2 1
World ranking 20 17: 22
Cornell University is the first co-educational university with gender equality among Ivy League schools. It is the first university to admit students regardless of aristocratic status, beliefs and race, and its purpose is to create a new comprehensive university with complete disciplines. So it has always been considered as the first truly meaningful national university in American history.
8.Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College does not participate in the USnews world ranking, but ranks 1 1 in the United States. Dartmouth College was selected as one of the "Ten Most Persevering Universities in the World" by Booz Allen Hamilton in 2005 because of its outstanding performance in the crisis of life and death.
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Ivy League refers to a sports league composed of eight universities in the northeastern United States (see NCAA entry). They are all first-class universities in the United States, and they are also the university alliance that produces the most Rhodes scholarship winners in the United States. In addition, schools have been established for a long time, and seven of the eight schools were established during the British colonial period.
These eight universities are the leading universities in the United States, with a long history and rigorous scholarship. Many famous scientists, politicians and businessmen have graduated here. In the United States, Ivy League schools are synonymous with top universities.
New Ivy League: 25 colleges and universities are favored by more and more students for their high-quality education and continuous international academic achievements. These schools are called "New Ivy League" colleges and universities. UCLA, University of North Carolina? , Emory University, Notre Dame University, Washington University in St. Louis, Boston College, Tufts University, Rensselaer Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Michigan, Kenyon College, University of Rochester, Rice University, new york University, davidson college, Colgate University, Colby College, Reed University, Bowden College, Franklin Ou Lin Institute of Technology, skidmore College, Macalester.
Ivy League: One of the top liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States, including Williams College, Amherst College, Wesleyan University, Swarthmore College, Mingde College, Bowden College, Colby College, Bates College, Hamilton College, Haverford College, etc.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Ivy League