Three universities in Illinois and Indiana have made Forbes’ list of “New Ivies,” a new list of the top schools beyond those with the once-coveted distinction.
After disqualifying the eight original Ivy League schools – Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell – along with “Ivy-plus” schools Stanford, MIT, Duke and the University of Chicago, Forbes used several data points like standardized test scores and surveys of hiring managers to determine the top public and private institutions in the country to replace the legacies.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign made the list of the ten “Public Ivies” that “attract high-achievers and turn out hard-working, highly-regarded employees.” The University of Wisconsin in Madison also made the list.
On the list of “New Private Ivies” – known for “attracting the smartest students and plaudits from employers” – is Northwestern University in Evanston and University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.
Here’s the complete list:
Public Ivies
- Binghamton University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Maryland – College Park
- University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
- University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
- University of Texas – Austin
- University of Virginia
- University of Wisconsin – Madison
Private Ivies
- Boston College
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Emory University
- Georgetown University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Northwestern University
- Rice University
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Southern California
- Vanderbilt University
If you have already graduated from one of these schools before the new announcement, you can still say you attended an Ivy League school!
