Ivy League - wikipedia Ivy League Jump to : navigation , search 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 Established 1954 Association NCAA Division Division I Subdivision FCS Members 8 Sports fielded 33 men 's : 17 women 's : 16 Region Northeast Headquarters Princeton , New Jersey Commissioner Robin Harris ( since 2009 ) Website ivyleaguesports.com Locations The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private universities in the Northeastern United States . The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context . The eight members are Brown University , Columbia University , Cornell University , Dartmouth College , Harvard University , the University of Pennsylvania , Princeton University , and Yale University . The term Ivy League has connotations of academic excellence , selectivity in admissions , and social elitism . While the term was in use as early as 1933 , it became official only after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954 . Seven of the eight schools were founded during the United States colonial period ; Cornell was founded in 1865 . Ivy League institutions account for seven of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution ; the other two are Rutgers University and the College of William & Mary . Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious , and are ranked among the best universities worldwide by U.S. News & World Report . All eight universities place in the top fourteen of the U.S. News & World Report 2018 national university rankings , including the top four schools and five of the top eight . U.S. News has named a member of the Ivy League as the best national university in each of the past eighteen years ending with the 2018 rankings : Princeton eleven times , Harvard twice , and the two schools tied for first five times . Undergraduate enrollments range from about 4,000 to 14,000 , making them larger than those of a typical private liberal arts college and smaller than a typical public state university . Total enrollments , including graduate students , range from approximately 6,400 at Dartmouth to over 20,000 at Columbia , Cornell , Harvard , and Penn . Ivy League financial endowments range from Brown 's $3.5 billion to Harvard 's $34.5 billion , the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world . Locations of Ivy League universities Contents ( hide ) 1 Members 2 History 2.1 Year founded 2.2 Origin of the name 2.3 Pre -- Ivy League 2.4 History of the athletic league 2.4. 1 19th and early 20th centuries 2.4. 2 Post -- World War II 3 Academics 3.1 Admissions 3.2 Prestige 3.3 Collaboration 4 Culture 4.1 Fashion and lifestyle 4.2 Social elitism 4.3 U.S. presidents in the Ivy League 5 Student demographics 5.1 Geographic distribution 5.2 Socioeconomics and social class 6 Competition and athletics 6.1 Teams 6.2 Historical results 6.3 Rivalries 6.3. 1 Intra-conference football rivalries 6.3. 2 Extra-conference football rivalries 7 Championships 7.1 NCAA team championships 8 Athletic facilities 9 Other Ivies 9.1 Ivy Plus 10 See also 11 Notes 12 External links Members Ivy League universities have some of the largest university financial endowments in the world , which allows the universities to provide many resources for their academic programs and research endeavors . As of 2014 , Harvard University has an endowment of $36.4 billion . Additionally , each university receives millions of dollars in research grants and other subsidies from federal and state governments . Institution Location Athletic nickname Enrollment 2017 Endowment Academic staff Colors Brown University Providence , Rhode Island Bears 7003864900000000000 ♠ 8,649 $3.5 billion 7002736000000000000 ♠ 736 Columbia University New York City , New York Lions 7004229200000000000 ♠ 22,920 $10.0 billion 7003376300000000000 ♠ 3,763 Cornell University Ithaca , New York Big Red 7004206330000000000 ♠ 20,633 $6.8 billion 7003290800000000000 ♠ 2,908 Dartmouth College Hanover , New Hampshire Big Green 7003614100000000000 ♠ 6,141 $4.96 billion 571 Harvard University Cambridge , Massachusetts Crimson 7004212250000000000 ♠ 21,225 $37.1 billion 7003467100000000000 ♠ 4,671 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia , Pennsylvania Quakers 7004206430000000000 ♠ 20,643 $12.2 billion 7003446400000000000 ♠ 4,464 Princeton University Princeton , New Jersey Tigers 7003759200000000000 ♠ 7,592 $23.8 billion 7003117200000000000 ♠ 1,172 Yale University New Haven , Connecticut Bulldogs 7004116660000000000 ♠ 11,666 $27.8 billion 7003414000000000000 ♠ 4,140 History Year founded Institution Founded Founding affiliation Harvard University 1636 as New College Calvinist ( Congregationalist Puritans ) Yale University 1701 as Collegiate School Calvinist ( Congregationalist ) University of Pennsylvania 1740 as Unnamed Charity School Nonsectarian , founded by Church of England / Methodists members Princeton University 1746 as College of New Jersey Nonsectarian , founded by Calvinist Presbyterians Columbia University 1754 as King 's College Church of England Brown University 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Baptist , founding charter promises `` no religious tests '' and `` full liberty of conscience '' Dartmouth College 1769 Calvinist ( Congregationalist ) Cornell University 1865 Nonsectarian Note : Six of the eight Ivy League universities consider their founding dates to be simply the date that they received their charters and thus became legal corporations with the authority to grant academic degrees . Harvard University uses the date that the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony formally allocated funds for the creation of a college . Harvard was chartered in 1650 , although classes had been conducted for approximately a decade by then . The University of Pennsylvania initially considered its founding date to be 1750 ; this is the year which appears on the first iteration of the university seal . Later in Penn 's early history , the university changed its officially recognized founding date to 1749 , which was used for all of the nineteenth century , including a centennial celebration in 1849 . In 1899 , Penn 's board of trustees formally adopted a third founding date of 1740 , in response to a petition from Penn 's General Alumni Society . Penn was chartered in 1755 , the same year collegiate classes began . `` Religious affiliation '' refers to financial sponsorship , formal association with , and promotion by , a religious denomination . All of the schools in the Ivy League are private and not currently associated with any religion . Origin of the name Harvard Yard , 2007 : Hollis Hall , Stoughton Hall , and Holworthy Hall Brown 's Front Green , 2012 : Hope College , Manning Hall , University Hall , and Slater Hall Yale 's Old Campus , 2012 : Durfee Hall , Battell Chapel , Farnham Hall , and Lawrence Hall On the Dartmouth Green , 2007 : Dartmouth Hall and Thornton Hall Students have long revered the ivied walls of older colleges . `` Planting the ivy '' was a customary class day ceremony at many colleges in the 1800s . In 1893 , an alumnus told The Harvard Crimson , `` In 1850 , class day was placed upon the University Calendar ... the custom of planting the ivy , while the ivy oration was delivered , arose about this time . '' At Penn , graduating seniors started the custom of planting ivy at a university building each spring in 1873 and that practice was formally designated as `` Ivy Day '' in 1874 . Ivy planting ceremonies are reported for Yale , Simmons , Bryn Mawr and many others . Princeton 's `` Ivy Club '' was founded in 1879 . The first usage of Ivy in reference to a group of colleges is from sportswriter Stanley Woodward ( 1895 -- 1965 ) . A proportion of our eastern ivy colleges are meeting little fellows another Saturday before plunging into the strife and the turmoil . -- Stanley Woodward , New York Tribune , October 14 , 1933 , describing the football season The first known instance of the term Ivy League being used appeared in The Christian Science Monitor on February 7 , 1935 . Several sportswriters and other journalists used the term shortly later to refer to the older colleges , those along the northeastern seaboard of the United States , chiefly the nine institutions with origins dating from the colonial era , together with the United States Military Academy ( West Point ) , the United States Naval Academy , and a few others . These schools were known for their long - standing traditions in intercollegiate athletics , often being the first schools to participate in such activities . However , at this time , none of these institutions made efforts to form an athletic league . A common folk etymology attributes the name to the Roman numeral for four ( IV ) , asserting that there was such a sports league originally with four members . The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins helped to perpetuate this belief . The supposed `` IV League '' was formed over a century ago and consisted of Harvard , Yale , Princeton , and a fourth school that varies depending on who is telling the story . However , it is clear that Harvard , Princeton , Yale and Columbia met on November 23 , 1876 at the so - called Massasoit Convention to decide on uniform rules for the emerging game of American football , which rapidly spread . Pre -- Ivy League Chancellor Green Library at Princeton , 2007 Robinson Hall at Brown , 2009 Cornell baseball player , 1908 Seven out of the eight Ivy League schools were founded before the American Revolution ; Cornell was founded just after the American Civil War . These seven were the primary colleges in the Northern and Middle Colonies , and their early faculties and founding boards were largely drawn from other Ivy League institutions . There were also some British graduates from the University of Cambridge , the University of Oxford , the University of St. Andrews , the University of Edinburgh , and elsewhere on their boards . Similarly , the founder of The College of William & Mary , in 1693 , was a British graduate of the University of Edinburgh . Cornell provided Stanford University with its first president . The influence of these institutions on the founding of other colleges and universities is notable . This included the Southern public college movement which blossomed in the decades surrounding the turn of the 19th century when Georgia , South Carolina , North Carolina and Virginia established what became the flagship universities for each of these states . In 1801 , a majority of the first board of trustees for what became the University of South Carolina were Princeton alumni . They appointed Jonathan Maxcy , a Brown graduate , as the university 's first president . Thomas Cooper , an Oxford alumnus and University of Pennsylvania faculty member , became the second president of the South Carolina college . The founders of the University of California came from Yale , hence the school colors of University of California are Yale Blue and California Gold . Some of the Ivy League schools have identifiable Protestant roots , while others were founded as non-sectarian schools . Church of England King 's College broke up during the Revolution and was reformed as public nonsectarian Columbia College . In the early nineteenth century , the specific purpose of training Calvinist ministers was handed off to theological seminaries , but a denominational tone and such relics as compulsory chapel often lasted well into the twentieth century . Penn and Brown were officially founded as nonsectarian schools . Brown 's charter promised no religious tests and `` full liberty of conscience '' , but placed control in the hands of a board of twenty - two Baptists , five Quakers , four Congregationalists , and five Episcopalians . Cornell has been strongly nonsectarian from its founding . `` Ivy League '' is sometimes used as a way of referring to an elite class , even though institutions such as Cornell University were among the first in the United States to reject racial and gender discrimination in their admissions policies . This dates back to at least 1935 . Novels and memoirs attest this sense , as a social elite ; to some degree independent of the actual schools . After the Second World War , the present Ivy League institutions slowly widened their selection of their students . They had always had distinguished faculties ; some of the first Americans with doctorates had taught for them ; but they now decided that they could not both be world - class research institutions and be competitive in the highest ranks of American college sport ; in addition , the schools experienced the scandals of any other big - time football programs , although more quietly . History of the athletic League Yale University 's four - oared crew team , posing with the 1876 Centennial Regatta trophy . The 1879 Brown baseball varsity , with W.E. White seated second from right ; White 's appearance in an 1879 major league game , the first for an African American , came 68 years before Jackie Robinson permanently broke the baseball color line Yale rowing team in the annual Harvard -- Yale Regatta , 2007 Penn 's ICAA track champions in 1907 19th and early 20th centuries The first formal athletic league involving eventual Ivy League schools ( or any US colleges , for that matter ) was created in 1870 with the formation of the Rowing Association of American Colleges . The RAAC hosted a de facto national championship in rowing during the period 1870 -- 1894 . In 1895 , Cornell , Columbia , and Penn founded the Intercollegiate Rowing Association , which remains the oldest collegiate athletic organizing body in the US . To this day , the IRA Championship Regatta determines the national champion in rowing and all of the Ivies are regularly invited to compete . A basketball league was later created in 1902 , when Columbia , Cornell , Harvard , Yale and Princeton formed the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League ; they were later joined by Penn and Dartmouth . In 1906 , the organization that eventually became the National Collegiate Athletic Association was formed , primarily to formalize rules for the emerging sport of football . But of the 39 original member colleges in the NCAA , only two of them ( Dartmouth and Penn ) later became Ivies . In February 1903 , intercollegiate wrestling began when Yale accepted a challenge from Columbia , published in the Yale News . The dual meet took place prior to a basketball game hosted by Columbia and resulted in a tie . Two years later , Penn and Princeton also added wrestling teams , leading to the formation of the student - run Intercollegiate Wrestling Association , now the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association ( EIWA ) , the first and oldest collegiate wrestling league in the US . In 1930 , Columbia , Cornell , Dartmouth , Penn , Princeton and Yale formed the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League ; they were later joined by Harvard , Brown , Army and Navy . Before the formal establishment of the Ivy League , there was an `` unwritten and unspoken agreement among certain Eastern colleges on athletic relations '' . The earliest reference to the `` Ivy colleges '' came in 1933 , when Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune used it to refer to the eight current members plus Army . In 1935 , the Associated Press reported on an example of collaboration between the schools : The athletic authorities of the so - called `` Ivy League '' are considering drastic measures to curb the increasing tendency toward riotous attacks on goal posts and other encroachments by spectators on playing fields . -- The Associated Press , The New York Times Despite such collaboration , the universities did not seem to consider the formation of the league as imminent . Romeyn Berry , Cornell 's manager of athletics , reported the situation in January 1936 as follows : I can say with certainty that in the last five years -- and markedly in the last three months -- there has been a strong drift among the eight or ten universities of the East which see a good deal of one another in sport toward a closer bond of confidence and cooperation and toward the formation of a common front against the threat of a breakdown in the ideals of amateur sport in the interests of supposed expediency . Please do not regard that statement as implying the organization of an Eastern conference or even a poetic `` Ivy League '' . That sort of thing does not seem to be in the cards at the moment . Within a year of this statement and having held month - long discussions about the proposal , on December 3 , 1936 , the idea of `` the formation of an Ivy League '' gained enough traction among the undergraduate bodies of the universities that the Columbia Daily Spectator , The Cornell Daily Sun , The Dartmouth , The Harvard Crimson , The Daily Pennsylvanian , The Daily Princetonian and the Yale Daily News would simultaneously run an editorial entitled `` Now Is the Time '' , encouraging the seven universities to form the league in an effort to preserve the ideals of athletics . Part of the editorial read as follows : The Ivy League exists already in the minds of a good many of those connected with football , and we fail to see why the seven schools concerned should be satisfied to let it exist as a purely nebulous entity where there are so many practical benefits which would be possible under definite organized association . The seven colleges involved fall naturally together by reason of their common interests and similar general standards and by dint of their established national reputation they are in a particularly advantageous position to assume leadership for the preservation of the ideals of intercollegiate athletics . The Ivies have been competing in sports as long as intercollegiate sports have existed in the United States . Rowing teams from Harvard and Yale met in the first sporting event held between students of two U.S. colleges on Lake Winnipesaukee , New Hampshire , on August 3 , 1852 . Harvard 's team , `` The Oneida '' , won the race and was presented with trophy black walnut oars from then presidential nominee General Franklin Pierce . The proposal did not succeed -- on January 11 , 1937 , the athletic authorities at the schools rejected the `` possibility of a heptagonal league in football such as these institutions maintain in basketball , baseball and track . '' However , they noted that the league `` has such promising possibilities that it may not be dismissed and must be the subject of further consideration . '' Post -- World War ii Students in Stell Hall at Dartmouth 's Tuck School of Business , 2007 Students of Yale College , 1866 In 1945 the presidents of the eight schools signed the first Ivy Group Agreement , which set academic , financial , and athletic standards for the football teams . The principles established reiterated those put forward in the Harvard - Yale - Princeton Presidents ' Agreement of 1916 . The Ivy Group Agreement established the core tenet that an applicant 's ability to play on a team would not influence admissions decisions : The members of the Group reaffirm their prohibition of athletic scholarships . Athletes shall be admitted as students and awarded financial aid only on the basis of the same academic standards and economic need as are applied to all other students . In 1954 , the presidents extended the Ivy Group Agreement to all intercollegiate sports , effective with the 1955 -- 56 basketball season . This is generally reckoned as the formal formation of the Ivy League . As part of the transition , Brown , the only Ivy that had n't joined the EIBL , did so for the 1954 -- 55 season . A year later , the Ivy League absorbed the EIBL . The Ivy League claims the EIBL 's history as its own . Through the EIBL , it is the oldest basketball conference in Division I . As late as the 1960s many of the Ivy League universities ' undergraduate programs remained open only to men , with Cornell the only one to have been coeducational from its founding ( 1865 ) and Columbia being the last ( 1983 ) to become coeducational . Before they became coeducational , many of the Ivy schools maintained extensive social ties with nearby Seven Sisters women 's colleges , including weekend visits , dances and parties inviting Ivy and Seven Sisters students to mingle . This was the case not only at Barnard College and Radcliffe College , which are adjacent to Columbia and Harvard , but at more distant institutions as well . The movie Animal House includes a satiric version of the formerly common visits by Dartmouth men to Massachusetts to meet Smith and Mount Holyoke women , a drive of more than two hours . As noted by Irene Harwarth , Mindi Maline , and Elizabeth DeBra , `` The ' Seven Sisters ' was the name given to Barnard , Smith , Mount Holyoke , Vassar , Bryn Mawr , Wellesley , and Radcliffe , because of their parallel to the Ivy League men 's colleges . '' In 1982 the Ivy League considered adding two members , with Army , Navy , and Northwestern as the most likely candidates ; if it had done so , the league could probably have avoided being moved into the recently created Division I - AA ( now Division I FCS ) for football . In 1983 , following the admission of women to Columbia College , Columbia University and Barnard College entered into an athletic consortium agreement by which students from both schools compete together on Columbia University women 's athletic teams , which replaced the women 's teams previously sponsored by Barnard . When Army and Navy departed the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League in 1992 , all intercollegiate competition involving the eight schools became united under the Ivy League banner . Academics Admissions Admission statistics ( Class of 2020 ) Applicants Admission rates Brown 32,390 9.01 % Columbia 36,292 6.04 % Cornell 44,966 13.96 % Dartmouth 20,675 10.52 % Harvard 39,041 5.22 % Penn 38,918 9.4 % Princeton 29,303 6.46 % Yale 31,455 6.27 % The Ivy League schools are highly selective , with acceptance rates since 2000 ranging from 6 to 16 percent at each of the universities . Admitted students come from around the world , although students from New England and the Northeastern United States make up a significant proportion of students . Prestige See also : List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation Members of the League have been highly ranked by various university rankings . National academic rankings University ( in alphabetical order ) ARWU ( 2017 ) Forbes ( 2017 ) USNWR ( 2018 ) Washington Monthly ( 2017 ) Brown 101 - 150 9 14 41 Columbia 8 14 5 16 Cornell 14 15 14 32 Dartmouth 201 - 300 12 11 27 Harvard Penn 17 7 8 7 Princeton 6 11 Yale 11 10 Further , Ivy League members have produced many Nobel laureates , winners of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences . According to the Nobel Foundation 's website , as of 2016 the number of prize - winners affiliated with each Ivy League university at the time of their awards is : Brown , 2 ; Columbia , 17 ; Cornell , 8 ; Dartmouth , 0 ; Harvard , 36 ; Penn , 4 ; Princeton , 14 ; and Yale , 8 . In addition , each university self - reports their number of affiliated Nobel laureates , but they use varying definitions for which Nobel winners they claim ( for example , alumni , active faculty , former faculty , visiting faculty , adjunct faculty , etc . ) Collaboration Collaboration between the member schools is illustrated by the student - led Ivy Council that meets in the fall and spring of each year , with representatives from every Ivy League school . The governing body of the Ivy League is the Council of Ivy Group Presidents , composed of each university president . During meetings , the presidents often discuss common procedures and initiatives for the universities . Culture Fashion and lifestyle See also : Ivy League ( clothes ) , Preppy , Take Ivy , and Ivy League ( haircut ) Statue of Benjamin Franklin on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania , 2011 Different fashion trends and styles have emerged from Ivy League campuses over time , and fashion trends such as Ivy League and Preppy are styles often associated with the Ivy League and its culture . Ivy League style is a style of men 's dress , popular during the late 1950s , believed to have originated on Ivy League campuses . The clothing stores J. Press and Brooks Brothers represent perhaps the quintessential Ivy League dress manner . The Ivy League style is said to be the predecessor to the preppy style of dress . Preppy fashion started around 1912 to the late 1940s and 1950s as the Ivy League style of dress . J. Press represents the quintessential preppy clothing brand , stemming from the collegiate traditions that shaped the preppy subculture . In the mid-twentieth century J. Press and Brooks Brothers , both being pioneers in preppy fashion , had stores on Ivy League school campuses , including Harvard , Princeton , and Yale . Some typical preppy styles also reflect traditional upper class New England leisure activities , such as equestrian , sailing or yachting , hunting , fencing , rowing , lacrosse , tennis , golf , and rugby . Longtime New England outdoor outfitters , such as L.L. Bean , became part of conventional preppy style . This can be seen in sport stripes and colours , equestrian clothing , plaid shirts , field jackets and nautical - themed accessories . Vacationing in Palm Beach , Florida , long popular with the East Coast upper class , led to the emergence of bright colour combinations in leisure wear seen in some brands such as Lilly Pulitzer . By the 1980s , other brands such as Lacoste , Izod and Dooney & Bourke became associated with preppy style . Today , these styles continue to be popular on Ivy League campuses , throughout the U.S. , and abroad , and are oftentimes labeled as `` Classic American style '' or `` Traditional American style '' . Social elitism The A.D. White Reading Room at Cornell 's Uris Library , 2008 A cartoon portrait of the stereotypical Columbia man , 1902 The Ivy League is often associated with the upper class White Anglo - Saxon Protestant community of the Northeast , Old Money , or more generally , the American upper middle and upper classes . Although most Ivy League students come from upper middle - and upper - class families , the student body has become increasingly more economically and ethnically diverse . The universities provide significant financial aid to help increase the enrollment of lower income and middle class students . Several reports suggest , however , that the proportion of students from less - affluent families remains low . Phrases such as `` Ivy League snobbery '' are ubiquitous in nonfiction and fiction writing of the early and mid-twentieth century . A Louis Auchincloss character dreads `` the aridity of snobbery which he knew infected the Ivy League colleges '' . A business writer , warning in 2001 against discriminatory hiring , presented a cautionary example of an attitude to avoid ( the bracketed phrase is his ) : We Ivy Leaguers ( read : mostly white and Anglo ) know that an Ivy League degree is a mark of the kind of person who is likely to succeed in this organization . The phrase Ivy League historically has been perceived as connected not only with academic excellence , but also with social elitism . In 1936 , sportswriter John Kieran noted that student editors at Harvard , Yale , Princeton , Cornell , Columbia , Dartmouth , and Penn were advocating the formation of an athletic association . In urging them to consider `` Army and Navy and Georgetown and Fordham and Syracuse and Brown and Pitt '' as candidates for membership , he exhorted : It would be well for the proponents of the Ivy League to make it clear ( to themselves especially ) that the proposed group would be inclusive but not `` exclusive '' as this term is used with a slight up - tilting of the tip of the nose . Aspects of Ivy stereotyping were illustrated during the 1988 presidential election , when George H.W. Bush ( Yale ' 48 ) derided Michael Dukakis ( graduate of Harvard Law School ) for having `` foreign - policy views born in Harvard Yard 's boutique . '' New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd asked `` Was n't this a case of the pot calling the kettle elite ? '' Bush explained , however , that , unlike Harvard , Yale 's reputation was `` so diffuse , there is n't a symbol , I do n't think , in the Yale situation , any symbolism in it ... Harvard boutique to me has the connotation of liberalism and elitism '' and said Harvard in his remark was intended to represent `` a philosophical enclave '' and not a statement about class . Columnist Russell Baker opined that `` Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard . All they know is that both are full of rich , fancy , stuck - up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets . '' Still , the last five presidents have all attended Ivy League schools for at least part of their education -- George H.W. Bush ( Yale undergrad ) , Bill Clinton ( Yale Law School ) , George W. Bush ( Yale undergrad , Harvard Business School ) , Barack Obama ( Columbia undergrad , Harvard Law School ) , and Donald Trump ( Penn undergrad ) . U.S. presidents in the Ivy League See also : List of Presidents of the United States by education Franklin Delano Roosevelt , third from left , top row , with his Harvard class in 1904 Of the forty - four men who have served as President of the United States , fifteen have graduated from an Ivy League university . Of them , eight have degrees from Harvard , five from Yale , three from Columbia , two from Princeton and one from Penn . Twelve presidents have earned Ivy undergraduate degrees . Three of these were transfer students : Donald Trump transferred from Fordham University , Barack Obama transferred from Occidental College and John F. Kennedy transferred from another Ivy , Princeton , where he had been class of 1939 . John Adams was the first president to graduate from college , graduating from Harvard in 1755 . President School ( s ) Graduation year John Adams Harvard University 1755 James Madison Princeton University 1771 John Quincy Adams Harvard University 1787 William Henry Harrison University of Pennsylvania ( withdrew ) Rutherford B. Hayes Harvard Law School 1845 Theodore Roosevelt Harvard University Columbia Law School 1880 ( withdrew ) ( Awarded J.D. in 2008 , class of 1882 ) William Howard Taft Yale University 1878 Woodrow Wilson Princeton University 1879 Franklin D. Roosevelt Harvard University Columbia Law School 1903 ( withdrew ) ( Awarded J.D. in 2008 , class of 1907 ) John F. Kennedy Princeton University Harvard University ( withdrew ) 1940 Gerald Ford Yale Law School 1941 George H.W. Bush Yale University 1948 Bill Clinton Yale Law School 1973 George W. Bush Yale University Harvard Business School 1968 Barack Obama Columbia University Harvard Law School 1991 Donald Trump University of Pennsylvania 1968 Student demographics Racial and / or ethnic background ( 2011 ) Asian Black Hispanic ( of any race ) Non-Hispanic White Other / international Unknown Brown 14 % 6 % 10 % 45 % 14 % 11 % Columbia 15 % 8 % 13 % 41 % 17 % 6 % Cornell 17 % 6 % 10 % 46 % 13 % 10 % Dartmouth 14 % 8 % 9 % 48 % 13 % 8 % Harvard 12 % 7 % 9 % 45 % 22 % 6 % Penn 19 % 7 % 8 % 46 % 13 % 7 % Princeton 18 % 7 % 8 % 49 % 15 % 3 % Yale 15 % 6 % 8 % 58 % 5 % 8 % United States 5 % 13 % 17 % 63 % 4 % NA Geographic distribution Students of the Ivy League largely hail from the Northeast , largely from the New York City , Boston , and Philadelphia areas . As all eight Ivy League universities are within the Northeast , it is no surprise that most graduates end up working and residing in the Northeast after graduation . An unscientific survey of Harvard seniors from the Class of 2013 found that 42 % hailed from the Northeast and 55 % overall were planning on working and residing in the Northeast . Boston and New York City are traditionally where many Ivy League graduates end up living . Socioeconomics and social class Harvard Law School students circa 1895 Students of the Ivy League , both graduate and undergraduate , come primarily from upper middle and upper class families . In recent years , however , the universities have looked towards increasing socioeconomic and class diversity , by providing greater financial aid packages to applicants from lower , working , and middle class American families . In 2013 , 46 % of Harvard undergraduate students came from families in the top 3.8 % of all American households ( i.e. , over $200,000 annual income ) . In 2012 , the bottom 25 % of the American income distribution accounted for only 3 -- 4 % of students at Brown , a figure that had remained unchanged since 1992 . In 2014 , 69 % of incoming freshmen students at Yale College came from families with annual incomes of over $120,000 , putting most Yale College students in the upper middle and / or upper class . ( The median household income in the U.S. in 2013 was $52,700 . ) In the 2011 -- 2012 academic year , students qualifying for Pell Grants ( federally funded scholarships on the basis of need ) comprised 20 % at Harvard , 18 % at Cornell , 17 % at Penn , 16 % at Columbia , 15 % at Dartmouth and Brown , 14 % at Yale , and 12 % at Princeton . Nationally , 35 % of American university students qualify for a Pell Grant . Competition and athletics Cornell plays Brown at Cornell 's Homecoming game , October 2017 . The Yale Bowl in 2001 during the annual football game played between Harvard and Yale Ivy champions are recognized in sixteen men 's and sixteen women 's sports . In some sports , Ivy teams actually compete as members of another league , the Ivy championship being decided by isolating the members ' records in play against each other ; for example , the six league members who participate in ice hockey do so as members of ECAC Hockey , but an Ivy champion is extrapolated each year . The Ivy League was the last Division I basketball conference to institute a conference postseason tournament ; the first tournaments for men and women were held at the end of the 2016 -- 17 season . The tournaments only award the Ivy League automatic bids for the NCAA Division I Men 's and Women 's Basketball Tournaments ; the official conference championships continue to be awarded based solely on regular - season results . Before the 2016 -- 17 season , the automatic bids were based solely on regular - season record , with a one - game playoff ( or series of one - game playoffs if more than two teams were tied ) held to determine the automatic bid . The Ivy League is one of only two Division I conferences which award their official basketball championships solely on regular - season results ; the other is the Southeastern Conference . Since its inception , an Ivy League school has yet to win either the men 's or women 's Division I NCAA Basketball Tournament . On average , each Ivy school has more than 35 varsity teams . All eight are in the top 20 for number of sports offered for both men and women among Division I schools . Unlike most Division I athletic conferences , the Ivy League prohibits the granting of athletic scholarships ; all scholarships awarded are need - based ( financial aid ) . In addition , the Ivies have a rigid policy against redshirting , even for medical reasons ; an athlete loses a year of eligibility for every year enrolled at an Ivy institution . Ivy League teams ' non-league games are often against the members of the Patriot League , which have similar academic standards and athletic scholarship policies ( although unlike the Ivies , the Patriot League allows redshirting ) . In the time before recruiting for college sports became dominated by those offering athletic scholarships and lowered academic standards for athletes , the Ivy League was successful in many sports relative to other universities in the country . In particular , Princeton won 26 recognized national championships in college football ( last in 1935 ) , and Yale won 18 ( last in 1927 ) . Both of these totals are considerably higher than those of other historically strong programs such as Alabama , which has won 15 , Notre Dame , which claims 11 but is credited by many sources with 13 , and USC , which has won 11 . Yale , whose coach Walter Camp was the `` Father of American Football , '' held on to its place as the all - time wins leader in college football throughout the entire 20th century , but was finally passed by Michigan on November 10 , 2001 . Harvard , Yale , Princeton and Penn each have over a dozen former scholar - athletes enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame . Currently Dartmouth holds the record for most Ivy League football titles , with 18 , followed closely by Harvard and Penn , each with 17 titles . In addition , the Ivy League has produced Super Bowl winners Kevin Boothe ( Cornell ) , two - time Pro Bowler Zak DeOssie ( Brown ) , Sean Morey ( Brown ) , All - Pro selection Matt Birk ( Harvard ) , Calvin Hill ( Yale ) , Derrick Harmon ( Cornell ) and 1999 `` Mr. Irrelevant '' Jim Finn ( Penn ) . Beginning with the 1982 football season , the Ivy League has competed in Division I - AA ( renamed FCS in 2006 ) . The Ivy League teams are eligible for the FCS tournament held to determine the national champion , and the league champion is eligible for an automatic bid ( and any other team may qualify for an at - large selection ) from the NCAA . However , the Ivy League has not played any postseason games at all since 1956 due to the league 's concerns about the extended December schedule 's effects on academics . For this reason , any Ivy League team invited to the FCS playoffs turns down the bid . The Ivy League plays a strict 10 - game schedule , compared to other FCS members ' schedules of 11 ( or , in some seasons , 12 ) regular season games , plus post-season , which was most recently expanded in 2013 to five rounds with 24 teams , with a bye week for the top eight teams . Football is the only sport in which the Ivy League declines to compete for a national title . In addition to varsity football , Penn , Princeton and Cornell also field teams in the eight - team Collegiate Sprint Football League , in which all players must weigh 172 pounds or less . Penn and Princeton are the last remaining founding members of the league from its 1934 debut , and Cornell is the next - oldest , joining in 1937 . Yale and Columbia previously fielded teams in the league but no longer do so . Teams Teams in Ivy League competition Sport Men 's Women 's Baseball 8 - Basketball 8 8 Cross-country 8 8 Fencing 6 7 Field hockey - 8 Football 8 - Golf 8 7 Ice hockey 6 6 Lacrosse 7 8 Rowing 7 7 Soccer 8 8 Softball - 8 Squash 8 8 Swimming and diving 7 8 Tennis 8 8 Track and field ( indoor ) 8 8 Track and field ( outdoor ) 8 8 Volleyball - 8 Wrestling 6 - The Ivy League is home to some of the oldest college rugby teams in the United States . Although these teams are not `` varsity '' sports , they compete annually in the Ivy Rugby Conference . Historical results Total championships won ( 1956 -- 2017 ) Institution Ivy League Championships NCAA Team Championships Princeton University Tigers 476 12 Harvard University Crimson 415 Cornell University Big Red 231 5 University of Pennsylvania Quakers 210 Yale University Bulldogs 202 Dartmouth College Big Green 140 Brown University Bears 123 7 Columbia University Lions 105 11 The table above includes the number of team championships won from the beginning of official Ivy League competition ( 1956 -- 57 academic year ) through 2016 - 17 . Princeton and Harvard have on occasion won ten or more Ivy League titles in a year , an achievement accomplished 10 times by Harvard and 24 times by Princeton , including a conference - record 15 championships in 2010 -- 11 . Only once has one of the other six schools earned more than eight titles in a single academic year ( Cornell with nine in 2005 -- 06 ) . In the 38 academic years beginning 1979 -- 80 , Princeton has averaged 10 championships per year , one - third of the conference total of 33 sponsored sports . In the 12 academic years beginning 2005 -- 06 Princeton has won championships in 31 different sports , all except wrestling and men 's tennis . Rivalries Built in 1927 , Penn 's Palestra is shown around 2006 Performance of a Greek play at Harvard Stadium in 1903 Rivalries run deep in the Ivy League . For instance , Princeton and Penn are longstanding men 's basketball rivals ; `` Puck Frinceton '' T - shirts are worn by Quaker fans at games . In only 11 instances in the history of Ivy League basketball , and in only seven seasons since Yale 's 1962 title , has neither Penn nor Princeton won at least a share of the Ivy League title in basketball , with Princeton champion or co-champion 26 times and Penn 25 times . Penn has won 21 outright , Princeton 19 outright . Princeton has been a co-champion 7 times , sharing 4 of those titles with Penn ( these 4 seasons represent the only times Penn has been co-champion ) . Harvard won its first title of either variety in 2011 , losing a dramatic play - off game to Princeton for the NCAA tournament bid , then rebounded to win outright championships in 2012 , 2013 , and 2014 . Harvard also won the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout , defeating TCU to become the only Ivy League school to win the now - defunct tournament . Rivalries exist between other Ivy league teams in other sports , including Cornell and Harvard in hockey , Harvard and Princeton in swimming , and Harvard and Penn in football ( Penn and Harvard have won 28 Ivy League Football Championships since 1982 , Penn - 16 ; Harvard - 12 ) . During that time Penn has had 8 undefeated Ivy League Football Championships and Harvard has had 6 undefeated Ivy League Football Championships . In men 's lacrosse , Cornell and Princeton are perennial rivals , and they are the only two Ivy League teams to have won the NCAA tournament . In 2009 , the Big Red and Tigers met for their 70th game in the NCAA tournament . No team other than Harvard or Princeton has won the men 's swimming conference title outright since 1972 , although Yale , Columbia , and Cornell have shared the title with Harvard and Princeton during this time . Similarly , no program other than Princeton and Harvard has won the women 's swimming championship since Brown 's 1999 title . Princeton or Cornell has won every indoor and outdoor track and field championship , both men 's and women 's , every year since 2002 -- 03 , with one exception ( Columbia women won indoor championship in 2012 ) . Harvard and Yale are football and crew rivals although the competition has become unbalanced ; Harvard has won all but one of the last 15 football games and all but one of the last 13 crew races . Intra-conference football rivalries Teams Name Trophy First met Games played Series record Columbia - Cornell Empire State Bowl Empire Cup 1889 103 games 36 -- 64 -- 3 Cornell - Penn None Trustee 's Cup 1893 122 games 46 -- 71 -- 5 Dartmouth - Princeton None Sawhorse Dollar 1897 95 games 48 -- 43 -- 4 Harvard - Yale The Game None 1875 132 games 59 -- 65 -- 8 Princeton - Yale None None 1873 138 games 52 -- 76 -- 10 The Yale - Princeton series is the nation 's second longest , exceeded only by `` The Rivalry '' between Lehigh and Lafayette , which began later in 1884 but included two or three games in each of 17 early seasons . For the first three decades of the Yale - Princeton rivalry , the two played their season - ending game at a neutral site , usually New York City , and with one exception ( 1890 : Harvard ) , the winner of the game also won at least a share of the national championship that year , covering the period 1869 through 1903 . This phenomenon of a finale contest at a neutral site for the national title created a social occasion for the society elite of the metropolitan area akin to a Super Bowl in the era prior to the establishment of the NFL in 1920 . These football games were also financially profitable for the two universities , so much that they began to play baseball games in New York City as well , drawing record crowds for that sport also , largely from the same social demographic . In a period when the only professional sports were fledgling baseball leagues , these high - profile early contests between Princeton and Yale played a role in popularizing spectator sports , demonstrating their financial potential and raising public awareness of Ivy universities at a time when few people attended college . Extra-conference football rivalries Teams Name Trophy First met Games played Series record Brown - Rhode Island None Governor 's Cup 1909 98 games 70 -- 26 -- 2 Columbia - Fordham None Liberty Cup 1890 22 games 12 -- 10 -- 0 Cornell - Colgate None None 1896 95 games 48 -- 44 -- 3 Dartmouth - New Hampshire Granite Bowl Granite Bowl Trophy 1901 37 games 17 -- 18 -- 2 Harvard - Holy Cross None None 1904 67 games 41 -- 24 -- 2 Penn - Lafayette None None 1882 90 games 63 -- 23 -- 4 Penn - Lehigh None None 1885 56 games 43 - 13 Princeton - Rutgers None None 1869 71 games 53 -- 17 -- 1 Yale - Army None None 1893 45 games 22 -- 16 -- 8 Championships NCAA team championships This list , which is current through July 1 , 2015 , includes NCAA championships and women 's AIAW championships ( one each for Yale and Dartmouth ) . Excluded from this list are all other national championships earned outside the scope of NCAA competition , including football titles and retroactive Helms Foundation titles . School Total Men Women Co-ed Nickname Yale University 29 26 0 Bulldogs Princeton University 24 19 Tigers Columbia University 14 11 0 Lions Harvard University 10 7 Crimson Brown University 7 0 7 0 Bears Cornell University 5 5 0 0 Big Red Dartmouth College 5 Big Green University of Pennsylvania 0 Quakers ^ Jump up to : The NCAA started sponsoring the intercollegiate golf championship in 1939 , but it retained the titles from the 41 championships previously conferred by the National Intercollegiate Golf Association in its records . Of these pre-NCAA titles , Yale , Princeton , Harvard and Dartmouth won 20 , 11 , 6 and 1 , respectively . See also : List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships and List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships Athletic facilities Football stadium Basketball arena Baseball field Hockey rink Soccer stadium School Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Brown Brown Stadium 7004200000000000000 ♠ 20,000 1925 Pizzitola Sports Center 7003280000000000000 ♠ 2,800 Murray Stadium 7003100000000000000 ♠ 1,000 1959 Meehan Auditorium 7003310000000000000 ♠ 3,100 1961 Stevenson Field 7003350000000000000 ♠ 3,500 1979 Columbia Wien Stadium 7004170000000000000 ♠ 17,000 1984 Levien Gymnasium 7003340800000000000 ♠ 3,408 Hal Robertson Field at Phillip Satow Stadium N / A N / A Non-hockey school Commisso Soccer Stadium 7003350000000000000 ♠ 3,500 1985 Cornell Schoellkopf Field 7004255970000000000 ♠ 25,597 1915 Newman Arena 7003447200000000000 ♠ 4,472 Hoy Field 7002500000000000000 ♠ 500 1922 Lynah Rink 7003426700000000000 ♠ 4,267 1957 Charles F. Berman Field 7003100000000000000 ♠ 1,000 2000 Dartmouth Memorial Field 7004156000000000000 ♠ 15,600 1923 Leede Arena 7003210000000000000 ♠ 2,100 1986 Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park 7003200000000000000 ♠ 2,000 2008 Thompson Arena 7003450000000000000 ♠ 4,500 Burnham Field 7003160000000000000 ♠ 1,600 2007 Harvard Harvard Stadium 7004308980000000000 ♠ 30,898 1903 Lavietes Pavilion 7003219500000000000 ♠ 2,195 1926 Joseph J. O'Donnell Field 7003160000000000000 ♠ 1,600 1898 Bright Hockey Center 7003285000000000000 ♠ 2,850 1956 Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium 7003250000000000000 ♠ 2,500 Penn Franklin Field 7004525930000000000 ♠ 52,593 1895 The Palestra 7003872200000000000 ♠ 8,722 1927 Meiklejohn Stadium 7002850000000000000 ♠ 850 2000 Class of 1923 Arena 7003250000000000000 ♠ 2,500 1972 Rhodes Field 7003170000000000000 ♠ 1,700 2002 Princeton Princeton University Stadium 7004278000000000000 ♠ 27,800 1998 Jadwin Gymnasium 7003685400000000000 ♠ 6,854 1969 Bill Clarke Field 7002850000000000000 ♠ 850 1961 Hobey Baker Memorial Rink 7003209400000000000 ♠ 2,094 1923 Roberts Stadium 7003300000000000000 ♠ 3,000 2008 Yale Yale Bowl 7004614460000000000 ♠ 61,446 1914 Payne Whitney Gymnasium 7003310000000000000 ♠ 3,100 1932 Yale Field 7003620000000000000 ♠ 6,200 1927 Ingalls Rink 7003348600000000000 ♠ 3,486 1958 Reese Stadium 7003300000000000000 ♠ 3,000 1981 Other Ivies The term Ivy is often used to connote a positive comparison to or association with the Ivy League , often along academic lines . The term has been used to describe the Little Ivies , a grouping of small liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States . Other uses include the Southern Ivies , Hidden Ivies , and the Public Ivies . The 2007 edition of Newsweek 's How to Get Into College Now , the editors designated 25 schools as `` New Ivies '' . Ivy Plus 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 . '' In their 2015 book Acing Admissions , Mehta and Dixit write , `` The ( Ivy Plus schools ) include , but are not limited to : Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) , Stanford University and Northwestern University . Besides selectivity , these Ivy Plus colleges are thought to share similar values around academic and professional excellence , intellectual curiosity , leadership and civil engagement . '' See also University portal Little Ivies -- a grouping of small liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States . Seven Sisters -- seven liberal arts colleges all previously open to only enrollment by women considered the Ivy League of female - only colleges Little Three -- three private liberal arts colleges in Massachusetts and Connecticut ( Amherst , Wesleyan , and Williams ) , in contrast to the Big Three ( a term used to refer to Harvard , Yale , and Princeton ) of the Ivy League . Colby - Bates - Bowdoin Consortium -- three private liberal arts colleges in Maine ( Bates , Bowdoin and Colby ) known as the Maine Big Three contrasting also with the Ivy League 's Big Three . List of Ivy League medical schools -- schools of the Ivy League universities that offer medical education ( both MDs and PhDs ) . List of Ivy League law schools -- schools of the Ivy League universities that offer various law degrees . List of Ivy League business schools -- schools of the Ivy League universities that offer various business degrees , especially the MBA . Hidden Ivies : Thirty Colleges of Excellence -- complementary use of Ivy to characterize schools in the United States that showcase academic excellence . Jesuit Ivy -- complementary use of Ivy to characterize Boston College . Black Ivy League -- informal list of private historically black colleges that attracted a high number of top African American students . Notes Jump up ^ `` Executive Director Robin Harris '' . Archived from the original on 2016 - 04 - 05 . Retrieved 2016 - 04 - 01 . Jump up ^ `` Princeton Campus Guide -- Ivy League '' . Retrieved 2007 - 04 - 26 . ^ Jump up to : `` Ivy League History and Timeline '' . Archived from the original on 2016 - 04 - 20 . Retrieved 2015 - 11 - 13 . Jump up ^ `` World 's Best Colleges '' . Retrieved 2009 - 07 - 03 . Jump up ^ `` National University Rankings '' . U.S. News & World Report . Archived from the original on 2011 - 05 - 21 . Retrieved 2013 - 09 - 11 . Jump up ^ Dartmouth and Cornell respectively Jump up ^ `` U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2013 Endowment Market Value '' ( published Jan. 28 , 2014 ) . `` National Association of College and University Business Officers ( NACUBO ) '' . Retrieved 2018 - 02 - 13 . Jump up ^ `` 10 Private Universities With Largest Financial Endowments '' . Retrieved 2012 - 01 - 09 . Jump up ^ Fitzpatrick , Dan ( 2014 - 09 - 23 ) . `` Harvard Endowment Earns 15.4 % Return for Fiscal 2014 '' . The Wall Street Journal . Jump up ^ Clark , Brian E. ( October 3 , 2017 ) . `` With a 13.4 percent return , Brown University 's endowment grows to $3.5 billion '' . Brown . Retrieved March 16 , 2018 . Jump up ^ `` Faculty & Employees '' . Brown University . Retrieved 8 October 2014 . Jump up ^ Xia , Karen ( October 18 , 2017 ) . `` Columbia University endowment increases to over $10 billion , reports 13.7 percent return '' . Columbia Spectator . Retrieved March 16 , 2018 . Jump up ^ `` Full - time faculty distribution by school / division , Fall 2007 - 2017 '' . Retrieved 2018 - 02 - 13 . Jump up ^ Walters , Karen ( September 29 , 2017 ) . `` Endowment performance ' solid , ' hits highest total ever '' . Cornell Chronicle . Retrieved March 16 , 2018 . Jump up ^ `` Dartmouth Announces Endowment Returns '' . Dartmouth Office of Communications . September 13 , 2017 . Retrieved March 16 , 2018 . Jump up ^ Dixon , Brandon J. ( September 20 , 2017 ) . `` Harvard Returns 8.1 Percent in ' Disappointing ' Fiscal Year 2017 '' . The Harvard Crimson . Retrieved March 16 , 2018 . Jump up ^ `` Archived copy '' ( PDF ) . Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2012 - 04 - 25 . Retrieved 2014 - 02 - 15 . ^ Jump up to : `` Penn : Penn Facts '' . The University of Pennsylvania . Retrieved 8 October 2014 . Jump up ^ `` Princeton endowment earns 12.5 percent return '' . Princeton Office of Communications . October 9 , 2017 . Retrieved March 16 , 2018 . Jump up ^ Conroy , Tom ( October 10 , 2017 ) . `` Investment return of 11.3 % brings Yale endowment value to $27.2 billion '' . Retrieved March 16 , 2017 . Jump up ^ The institution , though founded in 1636 , did not receive its name until 1639 . It was nameless for its first two years Jump up ^ See University of Pennsylvania for details of the circumstances of Penn 's origin . Penn considered its founding date to be 1749 for over a century. ( 1 ) In 1895 , elite universities in the United States agreed that henceforth formal academic processions would place visiting dignitaries and other officials in the order of their institution 's founding dates . Penn 's periodical `` The Alumni Register , '' published by the General Alumni Society , then began a grassroots campaign to retroactively revise the university 's founding date to 1740 , in order to appear older than Princeton University , which had been chartered in 1746 . In 1899 , the Board of Trustees acceded to the alumni initiative and voted to change the founding date to 1740 . The rationale offered in 1899 was that , in 1750 , founder Benjamin Franklin and his original board of trustees purchased a completed but unused building and assumed an unnamed trust from a group which had hoped to begin a church and charity school in Philadelphia . This edifice was commonly called the `` New Building '' by local citizens and was referred to by such name in Franklin 's memoirs as well as the legal bill of sale in Penn 's archives . No name is stated or known for the associated educational trust , hence `` Unnamed Charity School '' serves as a placeholder to refer to the trust which is the premise for Penn 's association with a founding date of 1740 . The first named entity in Penn 's early history was the 1751 secondary school for boys and charity school for indigent children called `` Academy and Charitable School in the Province of Pennsylvania . '' ( 2 ) Undergraduate education began in 1755 and the organization then changed its name to `` College , Academy and Charity School of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania . '' ( 3 ) Operation of the charity school was discontinued a few years later . Jump up ^ Penn 's website , like other sources , makes an important point of Penn 's heritage being nonsectarian , associated with Benjamin Franklin and the Academy of Philadelphia 's nonsectarian board of trustees : `` The goal of Franklin 's nonsectarian , practical plan would be the education of a business and governing class rather than of clergymen . '' ( 4 ) . Jencks and Riesman ( 2001 ) write `` The Anglicans who founded the University of Pennsylvania , however , were evidently anxious not to alienate Philadelphia 's Quakers , and they made their new college officially nonsectarian . '' In Franklin 's 1749 founding Proposals relating to the education of youth in Pensilvania ( page images ) Archived 2007 - 10 - 18 at the Wayback Machine. , religion is not mentioned directly as a subject of study , but he states in a footnote that the study of `` History will also afford frequent Opportunities of showing the Necessity of a Publick Religion , from its Usefulness to the Publicks ; the Advantage of a Religious Character among private Persons ; the Mischiefs of Superstition , &c. and the Excellency of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION above all others antient or modern . '' Starting in 1751 , the same trustees also operated a Charity School for Boys , whose curriculum combined `` general principles of Christianity '' with practical instruction leading toward careers in business and the `` mechanical arts . '' ( 5 ) , and thus might be described as `` non-denominational Christian . '' The charity school was originally planned and a trust was organized on paper in 1740 by followers of travelling evangelist George Whitefield . The school was to have operated inside a church supported by the same group of adherents . But the organizers ran short of financing and , although the frame of the building was raised , the interior was left unfinished . The founders of the Academy of Philadelphia purchased the unused building in 1750 for their new venture and , in the process , assumed the original trust . Since 1899 , Penn has claimed a founding date of 1740 , based on the organizational date of the charity school and the premise that it had institutional identity with the Academy of Philadelphia . Whitefield was a firebrand Methodist associated with The Great Awakening ; since the Methodists did not formally break from the Church of England until 1784 , Whitefield in 1740 would be labelled Episcopalian , and in fact Brown University , emphasizing its own pioneering nonsectarianism , refers to Penn 's origin as `` Episcopalian ''. ( 6 ) Penn is sometimes assumed to have Quaker ties ( its athletic teams are called `` Quakers , '' and the cross-registration alliance between Penn , Haverford , Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr is known as the `` Quaker Consortium . '' ) But Penn 's website does not assert any formal affiliation with Quakerism , historic or otherwise , and Haverford College implicitly asserts a non-Quaker origin for Penn when it states that `` Founded in 1833 , Haverford is the oldest institution of higher learning with Quaker roots in North America . '' `` Archived copy '' . Archived from the original on 2012 - 02 - 04 . Retrieved 2012 - 02 - 19 . Jump up ^ `` Protestant Episcopal Church -- LoveToKnow 1911 '' . 1911encyclopedia.org. 2006 - 10 - 06 . Archived from the original on 2010 - 12 - 29 . Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 30 . Jump up ^ `` Brown Admission : Our History '' . Brown.edu . Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 30 . ^ Jump up to : `` University Chapel : Orange Key Virtual Tour of Princeton University '' . Princeton University . Jump up ^ Brown 's website characterizes it as `` the Baptist answer to Congregationalist Yale and Harvard ; Presbyterian Princeton ; and Episcopalian Penn and Columbia , '' but adds that at the time it was `` the only one that welcomed students of all religious persuasions . '' ( 7 ) Brown 's charter stated that `` into this liberal and catholic institution shall never be admitted any religious tests , but on the contrary , all the members hereof shall forever enjoy full , free , absolute , and uninterrupted liberty of conscience . '' The charter called for twenty - two of the thirty - six trustees to be Baptists , but required that the remainder be `` five Friends , four Congregationalists , and five Episcopalians . '' ( 8 ) Jump up ^ Hughes , Samuel ( 2002 ) . `` Whiskey , Loose Women , and Fig Leaves : The University 's seal has a curious history '' . Pennsylvania Gazette. 100 ( 3 ) . Jump up ^ `` Class Day , New and Old '' . Jump up ^ `` Penn : Ivy day and Ivy Stones , a Penn Tradition '' . Jump up ^ Boston Daily Globe , Jun 27 , 1882 , p. 4 : `` CLASS DAY. : Yale Seniors Plant the Ivy , Sing `` Blage , '' and Entertain the Beauty of New Haven ; '' Jump up ^ Boston Evening Transcript , Jun 11 , 1912 , p. 12 , `` Simmons Seniors Hosts Class Day Exercises Late in Afternoon , Planting of the Ivy will be One of the Features ; Jump up ^ `` Play a Romance and Plant Ivy , Pretty Class Day Exercises of the Women 's College '' . The Gazette Times . June 9 , 1907 . Retrieved October 22 , 2012 . Jump up ^ `` The Ivy Club : History '' . Archived from the original on 2011 - 10 - 14 . Jump up ^ `` Yale Book of Quotations '' ( 2006 ) Yale University Press edited by Fred R. Shapiro Jump up ^ `` The Yale Book of Quotations '' ( 2006 ) Yale University Press , edited by Fred R. Shapiro Jump up ^ Oxford English Dictionary entry for `` Ivy League '' Jump up ^ The Chicago Public Library reports the `` IV League '' explanation , ( 9 ) sourced only from the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins . Jump up ^ Various Ask Ezra student columns report the `` IV League '' explanation , apparently relying on the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins as the sole source : ( 10 ) ( 11 ) ( 12 ) Jump up ^ `` The Penn Current / October 17 , 2002 / Ask Benny '' . Upenn.edu . Archived from the original on June 6 , 2010 . Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 30 . Jump up ^ `` This according to the Penn history of varsity football '' . Archives.upenn.edu . Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 30 . Jump up ^ `` Resource : Student history '' . Resource.berkeley.edu . Archived from the original on 2010 - 09 - 09 . Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 30 . Jump up ^ Epstein , Joseph ( 2003 ) . Snobbery : The American Version . Houghton Mifflin . ISBN 0 - 618 - 34073 - 4 . p. 55 , `` by WASP Baltzell meant something much more specific ; he intended to cover a select group of people who passed through a congeries of elite American institutions : certain eastern prep schools , the Ivy League colleges , and the Episcopal Church among them . '' ^ Jump up to : Auchincloss , Louis ( 2004 ) . East Side Story . Houghton Mifflin . ISBN 0 - 618 - 45244 - 3 . p. 179 , `` he dreaded the aridity of snobbery which he knew infected the Ivy League colleges '' Jump up ^ McDonald , Janet ( 2000 ) . Project Girl . University of California Press . ISBN 0 - 520 - 22345 - 4 . p. 163 `` Newsweek is a morass of incest , nepotism , elitism , racism and utter classic white male patriarchal corruption ... It is completely Ivy League -- a Vassar / Columbia J - School dumping ground ... I will always be excluded , regardless of how many Ivy League degrees I acquire , because of the next level of hurdles : family connections and money . '' Jump up ^ scandals : James Axtell , The Making of Princeton University ( 2006 ) , p. 274 ; quoting a former executive director of the Ivy League Jump up ^ Robert Siegel , `` Black Baseball Pioneer William White 's 1879 Game , '' National Public Radio , broadcast Jan. 30 , 2004 ( audio at npr.org ) ; Stefan Fatsis , `` Mystery of Baseball : Was William White Game 's First Black ? '' , Wall Street Journal , Jan. 30 , 2004 ; Peter Morris and Stefan Fatsis , `` Baseball 's Secret Pioneer : William Edward White , the first black player in major - league history , '' Slate , Feb. 4 , 2014 ; `` Bill White ( whitebi01 ) '' , Baseball-Reference.com ; Rick Harris , Brown University Baseball : A Legacy of the game ( Charleston : The History Press , 2012 ) , pp. 41 -- 43 Jump up ^ `` Columbia Celebrates College Wrestling Centennial '' . Columbia College Today . Jump up ^ `` Colleges Searching for Check On Trend to Goal Post Riots '' . The New York Times . Associated Press . 1935 - 12 - 06 . p. 33 . Jump up ^ Robert F. Kelley ( 1936 - 01 - 17 ) . `` Cornell Club Here Welcomes Lynah '' . The New York Times . p. 22 . Jump up ^ `` Immediate Formation of Ivy League Advocated at Seven Eastern Colleges '' . The New York Times . 1936 - 12 - 03 . p. 33 . Jump up ^ `` The Harvard Crimson : : News : : AN EDITORIAL '' . Thecrimson.com. 1936 - 12 - 03 . Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 30 . Jump up ^ `` Plea for an Ivy Football League Rejected by College Authorities '' . The New York Times . 1937 - 01 - 12 . p. 26 . Jump up ^ Gwertzman , Bernard M. ( October 13 , 1956 ) . `` Ivy League : Formalizing the Fact '' . The Harvard Crimson . Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 30 . Jump up ^ `` Ivy Group '' Archived 2015 - 01 - 18 at the Wayback Machine. , Sports-reference.com Jump up ^ `` Official 2009 NCAA Men 's Basketball Records Book - p. 221 `` Division I Conference Alignment History '' '' ( PDF ) . Retrieved 2018 - 02 - 13 . Jump up ^ `` Archived : Women 's Colleges in the United States : History , Issues , and Challenges '' . Ed.gov . Archived from the original on 2005 - 02 - 04 . Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 30 . Jump up ^ White , Gordon S. Jr. ( 1982 - 01 - 10 ) . `` Ivy League Considers Adding 2 Schools '' . The New York Times . Retrieved 18 September 2013 . Jump up ^ Nick Anderson , `` Ivy League admission rate : 8 - point - something - something - percent '' , The Washington Post March 28 , 2014 . Local references for the schools ' statistics are footnoted at their entries Jump up ^ Jillian Lanney , `` Brown admits record - low 8.6 percent '' , The Brown Daily Herald , March 31 , 2014 ; sourcing admissions dean Jim Miller : 30,432 applied , 2,619 admitted , 8.61 percent Jump up ^ Samantha Cooney , `` CC and SEAS admission decisions mailed this afternoon , 6.94 percent of applicants admitted '' , spectrum.columbiaspectator.com , March 27 , 2014 ; sourcing admissions dean Jessica Marinaccio : 32,952 applied , 2,291 admitted , 6.953 percent . * Nick Anderson , op cit , used an applied number of 32,967 , giving 6.949 percent Jump up ^ Annie Bui , `` Cornell Admits Most Selective Class in University History '' , Cornell Daily Sun , March 28 , 2014 ; sourcing associate vice provost for enrollment Jason C. Locke : 43,041 applied , 6,014 admitted , 13.97 percent Jump up ^ Zac Hardwick , `` College accepts 11.5 percent of applicants '' , The Dartmouth , March 28 , 2014 ; sourcing admissions dean Maria Laskaris : 19,296 applied , 2,220 admitted , 11.50 percent Jump up ^ Theodore R. Delwiche , `` Harvard Makes Admissions Offers to 5.9 Percent of Applicants to the Class f 2018 '' , The Harvard Crimson , March 27 , 2014 ; sourcing admissions dean William R. Fitzsimmons : 34,295 applied , 2,023 admitted , 5.899 percent Jump up ^ Fiona Glisson , `` Admission numbers released : The class of 2018 is the most competitive in Penn 's history '' , The Daily Pennsylvanian , March 27 , 2014 ; sourcing admissions dean Eric Furda : 35,868 applied , 3,583 admitted , 9.99 percent . * The Penn news - release figure of 9.9 percent ( rounded down from 9.99 percent ) was disputed in the Washington Post by higher education reporter Nick Anderson ( `` Ivy League admission rate : 8 - point - something - something - percent '' , The Washington Post March 28 , 2014 ) , who published a rounded - up percentage of 10.0 , supported by rounded - up figures released by Cornell , Harvard , Princeton , and Yale ; Anderson 's article was discussed in Penn 's CollegeConfidential.com forum `` University of Pennsylvania Class of 2018 Waitlist '' Jump up ^ Corinne Lowe , `` Princeton offers admission to 7.28 percent of applicants '' , The Daily Princetonian , March 27 , 2014 ; sourcing admissions dean Janet Rapelye : 26,641 applied , 1,939 admitted , 7.28 percent Jump up ^ Rishabh Bhandari , `` 6.26 percent of applicants admitted to class of 2018 '' , Yale Daily News , March 27 , 2014 ; sourcing admissions dean Jeremiah Quinlan : 30,932 applied , 1,935 admitted , 6.26 percent Jump up ^ Waldman , Peter ( 4 September 2014 ) . `` How to Get Into an Ivy League College -- Guaranteed '' . Bloomberg.com . Jump up ^ `` National University Rankings '' . U.S. News & World Report LP . Archived from the original on 2011 - 05 - 21 . Retrieved 2011 - 05 - 11 . Jump up ^ Annicchiarico , Francesca ; Weinstock , Samuel Y. ( 3 September 2013 ) . `` Freshman Survey Part I : Meet Harvard 's Class of 2017 '' . The Harvard Crimson . Jump up ^ `` Academic Ranking of World Universities 2017 '' . Academic Ranking of World Universities . Jump up ^ `` America 's Top Colleges '' . Forbes . Jump up ^ `` National University Rankings -- Top National Universities '' . U.S. News & World Report . Jump up ^ `` 2017 National Universities Rankings '' . Washington Monthly . Jump up ^ `` Nobel Laureates and Research Affiliations '' . Nobelprize.org . Jump up ^ Elements of Fashion and Apparel Design . New Age Publishers . p. 25 . ISBN 81 - 224 - 1371 - 4 . Ivy League : A popular look for men in the fifties that originated on such campuses as Harvard , Priceton ( sic ) and Yale ; a forerunner to the preppie look ; a style characterized by button down collar shirts and pants with a small buckle in the back . ^ Jump up to : Zlotnick , Sarah ( February 24 , 2012 ) . `` Your cheat sheet to preppy style '' . The Washingtonian . Jump up ^ Peterson , Amy T. ; Ann T. Kellogg ( 2008 ) . The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing Through American History 1900 to the Present : 1900 -- 1949 . ABC - CLIO . p. 285 . ISBN 9780313043345 . Jump up ^ `` The Ultimate Guide to American Style '' . Details . Jump up ^ Rapoport , Adam ( 31 March 2008 ) . `` The American Way '' . GQ . Jump up ^ Epstein , Joseph ( 2003 ) . Snobbery : The American Version . Houghton Mifflin . ISBN 0 - 618 - 34073 - 4 . p. 55 , `` by WASP Baltzell meant something much more specific ; he intended to cover a select group of people who passed through a congeries of elite American institutions : certain eastern prep schools , the Ivy League colleges , and the Episcopal Church among them . '' and Wolff , Robert Paul ( 1992 ) . The Ideal of the University . Transaction Publishers . ISBN 1 - 56000 - 603 - X . p. viii : `` My genial , aristocratic contempt for Clark Kerr 's celebration of the University of California was as much an expression of Ivy League snobbery as it was of radical social critique . '' Jump up ^ Greenblatt , Alan ( 19 September 2012 ) . `` The End Of WASP - Dominated Politics '' . NPR.org . Jump up ^ Orlet , Christopher ( 23 August 2012 ) . `` Missing the WASPs '' . The American Spectator . Jump up ^ Feldman , Noah ( 2010 - 06 - 27 ) . `` The Triumphant Decline of the WASP '' . The New York Times . ^ Jump up to : Hayes , Robin J. ( February 2014 ) . `` Why Ivy League Schools Are So Bad at Economic Diversity '' . The Atlantic . Jump up ^ Time magazine , Noliwe M. Rooks , Feb. 27 , 2013 , The Biggest Barrier to Elite Education Is n't Affordability . It 's Accessibility , Retrieved Aug. 27 , 2014 , `` ... accessibility of these schools to students who are poor , minority ... the weight that Ivy League and other highly selective schools ... unfortunate set of circumstances ... gifted minority , poor and working class students can benefit most from the educational opportunities ... '' Jump up ^ August 26 , 2014 , Boston Globe ( via NY Times ) , A Generation Later , Poor are Still Rare at Elite Colleges , Retrieved Aug. 30 , 2014 , `` more elite group of 28 private colleges and universities , including all eight Ivy League members , ... from 2001 to 2009 , ... enrollment of students from the bottom 40 percent of family incomes increased from just 10 percent to 11 percent ... '' Jump up ^ Wolff , Robert Paul ( 1992 ) . The Ideal of the University . Transaction Publishers . ISBN 1 - 56000 - 603 - X . p. viii : `` My genial , aristocratic contempt for Clark Kerr 's celebration of the University of California was as much an expression of Ivy League snobbery as it was of radical social critique . '' Jump up ^ Williams , Mark ( 2001 ) . The 10 Lenses : your guide to living and working in a multicultural world . Capital Books . , p. 85 Jump up ^ Kieran , John ( December 4 , 1936 ) . `` Sports of the Times -- The Ivy League '' . The New York Times . p. 36 . Retrieved May 30 , 2017 . There will now be a little test of ' the power of the press ' in intercollegiate circles since the student editors at Harvard , Yale , Princeton , Cornell , Columbia , Dartmouth and Penn are coming out in a group for the formation of an Ivy League in football . The idea is n't new ... It would be well for the proponents of the Ivy League to make it clear ( to themselves especially ) that the proposed group would be inclusive but not ' exclusive ' as this term is used with a slight up - tilting of the tip of the nose . '' He recommended the consideration of `` plenty of institutions covered with home - grown ivy that are not included in the proposed group . ( such as ) Army and Navy and Georgetown and Fordham and Syracuse and Brown and Pitt , just to offer a few examples that come to mind '' and noted that `` Pitt and Georgetown and Brown and Bowdoin and Rutgers were old when Cornell was shining new , and Fordham and Holy Cross had some building draped in ivy before the plaster was dry in the walls that now tower high about Cayuga 's waters . Jump up ^ Webster G. Tarpley ; Anton Chaitkin . `` George Bush : The Unauthorized Biography : Chapter XXII Bush Takes The Presidency '' . Webster G. Tarpley . Retrieved 2006 - 12 - 17 . 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Jump up ^ `` Here 's Where Ivy League Students Go When They Graduate ( Presentation ) '' . Business Insider. 29 June 2012 . Retrieved 8 October 2014 . Jump up ^ `` Why Do So Many Ivy League Grads Go to Wall Steet ? '' . The Atlantic . 17 February 2012 . Retrieved 8 October 2014 . Jump up ^ `` The Ivy League in the Age of Obama '' . The American Conservative . Retrieved 8 October 2014 . Jump up ^ `` The Best and the Greediest ? Ivy League Students Are Still Heading to Wall Street '' . Alternet . Retrieved 8 October 2014 . ^ Jump up to : McGrath , Maggie ( November 27 , 2013 ) . `` The Challenge Of Being Poor At America 's Richest Colleges '' . Forbes . Jump up ^ Nickens , Margaret ; Nussenbaum , Kate ( 23 April 2012 ) . `` How diverse are we ? '' . The Brown Daily Herald . Jump up ^ Miele , Adriana ( 22 January 2014 ) . `` MIELE : Wanted , fewer dumb students '' . Yale Daily News . Jump up ^ Zax , David . `` Wanted : smart students from poor families '' . Yale Alumni Magazine . Jump up ^ `` The Ivy League Adds Men 's , Women 's Basketball Tournaments Beginning in 2017 '' ( Press release ) . Ivy League . March 10 , 2016 . Archived from the original on March 11 , 2016 . Retrieved March 10 , 2016 . Jump up ^ `` Yale basketball shares Ivy League title '' . Yale Daily News . 2002 - 03 - 06 . Archived from the original on 2013 - 02 - 09 . Retrieved 2010 - 08 - 01 . Jump up ^ `` Through the Years : SEC Champions '' ( PDF ) . 2015 -- 2016 SEC Men 's Basketball Media Guide . Southeastern Conference . p. 61 . Retrieved March 10 , 2016 . From 1933 -- 50 the SEC Champion was determined by a tournament , except for 1935 . Since 1951 , when the round - robin schedule was introduced , the title has been decided by a winning percentage on the conference schedule . Jump up ^ `` Through the Years : SEC Champions '' ( PDF ) . 2015 -- 2016 SEC Women 's Basketball Media Guide . Southeastern Conference . p. 54 . Retrieved March 10 , 2016 . Since 1986 , the SEC champion has been determined by the regular season schedule . Jump up ^ `` Timeline '' . The Ivy League . Archived from the original on 2016 - 04 - 20 . Jump up ^ Brown , C.L. ( October 5 , 2016 ) . `` Which players injured last season will make the strongest comebacks ? '' . ESPN.com . Retrieved October 8 , 2016 . It 's easy to forget what Siyani Chambers has meant to Harvard as a three - time all - Ivy League player because he was n't enrolled in school last season . The Ivy League does n't allow redshirts , so Chambers was forced to withdraw after a preseason ACL injury if he wanted to return for his senior season . Jump up ^ `` Recognized National Championships by Year '' . College Football Data Warehouse . Archived from the original on 15 October 2016 . Retrieved 8 October 2014 . Jump up ^ New York Times -- 2006 - 11 - 17 Jump up ^ `` Ivy League '' . Council of Ivy League Presidents and The Ivy League . Retrieved 8 October 2014 . 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Ivy League Established 1954 Association NCAA Division Division I Subdivision FCS Members 8 Sports fielded 33 men 's : 17 women 's : 16 Region Northeast Headquarters Princeton , New Jersey Commissioner Robin Harris ( since 2009 ) Website ivyleaguesports.com Locations Ivy League Established 1954 Association NCAA Division Division I Subdivision FCS Members 8 Sports fielded 33 men 's : 17 women 's : 16 33 men 's : 17 women 's : 16 33 men 's : 17 women 's : 16 men 's : 17 women 's : 16 men 's : 17 women 's : 16 Region Northeast Headquarters Princeton , New Jersey Commissioner Robin Harris ( since 2009 ) Website ivyleaguesports.com Locations The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private universities in the Northeastern United States . The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context . The eight members are Brown University , Columbia University , Cornell University , Dartmouth College , Harvard University , the University of Pennsylvania , Princeton University , and Yale University . The term Ivy League has connotations of academic excellence , selectivity in admissions , and social elitism . While the term was in use as early as 1933 , it became official only after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954 . Seven of the eight schools were founded during the United States colonial period ; Cornell was founded in 1865 . Ivy League institutions account for seven of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution ; the other two are Rutgers University and the College of William & Mary . Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious , and are ranked among the best universities worldwide by U.S. News & World Report . All eight universities place in the top fourteen of the U.S. News & World Report 2018 national university rankings , including the top four schools and five of the top eight . U.S. News has named a member of the Ivy League as the best national university in each of the past eighteen years ending with the 2018 rankings : Princeton eleven times , Harvard twice , and the two schools tied for first five times . Undergraduate enrollments range from about 4,000 to 14,000 , making them larger than those of a typical private liberal arts college and smaller than a typical public state university . Total enrollments , including graduate students , range from approximately 6,400 at Dartmouth to over 20,000 at Columbia , Cornell , Harvard , and Penn . Ivy League financial endowments range from Brown 's $3.5 billion to Harvard 's $34.5 billion , the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world . Ivy League universities have some of the largest university financial endowments in the world , which allows the universities to provide many resources for their academic programs and research endeavors . As of 2014 , Harvard University has an endowment of $36.4 billion . Additionally , each university receives millions of dollars in research grants and other subsidies from federal and state governments . Institution Location Athletic nickname Enrollment 2017 Endowment Academic staff Colors Brown University Providence , Rhode Island Bears 7003864900000000000 ♠ 8,649 $3.5 billion 7002736000000000000 ♠ 736 Columbia University New York City , New York Lions 7004229200000000000 ♠ 22,920 $10.0 billion 7003376300000000000 ♠ 3,763 Cornell University Ithaca , New York Big Red 7004206330000000000 ♠ 20,633 $6.8 billion 7003290800000000000 ♠ 2,908 Dartmouth College Hanover , New Hampshire Big Green 7003614100000000000 ♠ 6,141 $4.96 billion 571 Harvard University Cambridge , Massachusetts Crimson 7004212250000000000 ♠ 21,225 $37.1 billion 7003467100000000000 ♠ 4,671 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia , Pennsylvania Quakers 7004206430000000000 ♠ 20,643 $12.2 billion 7003446400000000000 ♠ 4,464 Princeton University Princeton , New Jersey Tigers 7003759200000000000 ♠ 7,592 $23.8 billion 7003117200000000000 ♠ 1,172 Yale University New Haven , Connecticut Bulldogs 7004116660000000000 ♠ 11,666 $27.8 billion 7003414000000000000 ♠ 4,140 Institution Location Athletic nickname Enrollment 2017 Endowment Academic staff Colors Brown University Providence , Rhode Island Bears 7003864900000000000 ♠ 8,649 $3.5 billion 7002736000000000000 ♠ 736 Columbia University New York City , New York Lions 7004229200000000000 ♠ 22,920 $10.0 billion 7003376300000000000 ♠ 3,763 Cornell University Ithaca , New York Big Red 7004206330000000000 ♠ 20,633 $6.8 billion 7003290800000000000 ♠ 2,908 Dartmouth College Hanover , New Hampshire Big Green 7003614100000000000 ♠ 6,141 $4.96 billion 571 Harvard University Cambridge , Massachusetts Crimson 7004212250000000000 ♠ 21,225 $37.1 billion 7003467100000000000 ♠ 4,671 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia , Pennsylvania Quakers 7004206430000000000 ♠ 20,643 $12.2 billion 7003446400000000000 ♠ 4,464 Princeton University Princeton , New Jersey Tigers 7003759200000000000 ♠ 7,592 $23.8 billion 7003117200000000000 ♠ 1,172 Yale University New Haven , Connecticut Bulldogs 7004116660000000000 ♠ 11,666 $27.8 billion 7003414000000000000 ♠ 4,140 Institution Founded Founding affiliation Harvard University 1636 as New College Calvinist ( Congregationalist Puritans ) Yale University 1701 as Collegiate School Calvinist ( Congregationalist ) University of Pennsylvania 1740 as Unnamed Charity School Nonsectarian , founded by Church of England / Methodists members Princeton University 1746 as College of New Jersey Nonsectarian , founded by Calvinist Presbyterians Columbia University 1754 as King 's College Church of England Brown University 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Baptist , founding charter promises `` no religious tests '' and `` full liberty of conscience '' Dartmouth College 1769 Calvinist ( Congregationalist ) Cornell University 1865 Nonsectarian Institution Founded Founding affiliation Harvard University 1636 as New College Calvinist ( Congregationalist Puritans ) Yale University 1701 as Collegiate School Calvinist ( Congregationalist ) University of Pennsylvania 1740 as Unnamed Charity School Nonsectarian , founded by Church of England / Methodists members Princeton University 1746 as College of New Jersey Nonsectarian , founded by Calvinist Presbyterians Columbia University 1754 as King 's College Church of England Brown University 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Baptist , founding charter promises `` no religious tests '' and `` full liberty of conscience '' Dartmouth College 1769 Calvinist ( Congregationalist ) Cornell University 1865 Nonsectarian Note : Six of the eight Ivy League universities consider their founding dates to be simply the date that they received their charters and thus became legal corporations with the authority to grant academic degrees . Harvard University uses the date that the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony formally allocated funds for the creation of a college . Harvard was chartered in 1650 , although classes had been conducted for approximately a decade by then . The University of Pennsylvania initially considered its founding date to be 1750 ; this is the year which appears on the first iteration of the university seal . Later in Penn 's early history , the university changed its officially recognized founding date to 1749 , which was used for all of the nineteenth century , including a centennial celebration in 1849 . In 1899 , Penn 's board of trustees formally adopted a third founding date of 1740 , in response to a petition from Penn 's General Alumni Society . Penn was chartered in 1755 , the same year collegiate classes began . `` Religious affiliation '' refers to financial sponsorship , formal association with , and promotion by , a religious denomination . All of the schools in the Ivy League are private and not currently associated with any religion . Note : Six of the eight Ivy League universities consider their founding dates to be simply the date that they received their charters and thus became legal corporations with the authority to grant academic degrees . Harvard University uses the date that the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony formally allocated funds for the creation of a college . Harvard was chartered in 1650 , although classes had been conducted for approximately a decade by then . The University of Pennsylvania initially considered its founding date to be 1750 ; this is the year which appears on the first iteration of the university seal . Later in Penn 's early history , the university changed its officially recognized founding date to 1749 , which was used for all of the nineteenth century , including a centennial celebration in 1849 . In 1899 , Penn 's board of trustees formally adopted a third founding date of 1740 , in response to a petition from Penn 's General Alumni Society . Penn was chartered in 1755 , the same year collegiate classes began . `` Religious affiliation '' refers to financial sponsorship , formal association with , and promotion by , a religious denomination . All of the schools in the Ivy League are private and not currently associated with any religion . Students have long revered the ivied walls of older colleges . `` Planting the ivy '' was a customary class day ceremony at many colleges in the 1800s . In 1893 , an alumnus told The Harvard Crimson , `` In 1850 , class day was placed upon the University Calendar ... the custom of planting the ivy , while the ivy oration was delivered , arose about this time . '' At Penn , graduating seniors started the custom of planting ivy at a university building each spring in 1873 and that practice was formally designated as `` Ivy Day '' in 1874 . Ivy planting ceremonies are reported for Yale , Simmons , Bryn Mawr and many others . Princeton 's `` Ivy Club '' was founded in 1879 . The first usage of Ivy in reference to a group of colleges is from sportswriter Stanley Woodward ( 1895 -- 1965 ) . A proportion of our eastern ivy colleges are meeting little fellows another Saturday before plunging into the strife and the turmoil . The first known instance of the term Ivy League being used appeared in The Christian Science Monitor on February 7 , 1935 . Several sportswriters and other journalists used the term shortly later to refer to the older colleges , those along the northeastern seaboard of the United States , chiefly the nine institutions with origins dating from the colonial era , together with the United States Military Academy ( West Point ) , the United States Naval Academy , and a few others . These schools were known for their long - standing traditions in intercollegiate athletics , often being the first schools to participate in such activities . However , at this time , none of these institutions made efforts to form an athletic league . A common folk etymology attributes the name to the Roman numeral for four ( IV ) , asserting that there was such a sports league originally with four members . The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins helped to perpetuate this belief . The supposed `` IV League '' was formed over a century ago and consisted of Harvard , Yale , Princeton , and a fourth school that varies depending on who is telling the story . However , it is clear that Harvard , Princeton , Yale and Columbia met on November 23 , 1876 at the so - called Massasoit Convention to decide on uniform rules for the emerging game of American football , which rapidly spread . Seven out of the eight Ivy League schools were founded before the American Revolution ; Cornell was founded just after the American Civil War . These seven were the primary colleges in the Northern and Middle Colonies , and their early faculties and founding boards were largely drawn from other Ivy League institutions . There were also some British graduates from the University of Cambridge , the University of Oxford , the University of St. Andrews , the University of Edinburgh , and elsewhere on their boards . Similarly , the founder of The College of William & Mary , in 1693 , was a British graduate of the University of Edinburgh . Cornell provided Stanford University with its first president . The influence of these institutions on the founding of other colleges and universities is notable . This included the Southern public college movement which blossomed in the decades surrounding the turn of the 19th century when Georgia , South Carolina , North Carolina and Virginia established what became the flagship universities for each of these states . In 1801 , a majority of the first board of trustees for what became the University of South Carolina were Princeton alumni . They appointed Jonathan Maxcy , a Brown graduate , as the university 's first president . Thomas Cooper , an Oxford alumnus and University of Pennsylvania faculty member , became the second president of the South Carolina college . The founders of the University of California came from Yale , hence the school colors of University of California are Yale Blue and California Gold . Some of the Ivy League schools have identifiable Protestant roots , while others were founded as non-sectarian schools . Church of England King 's College broke up during the Revolution and was reformed as public nonsectarian Columbia College . In the early nineteenth century , the specific purpose of training Calvinist ministers was handed off to theological seminaries , but a denominational tone and such relics as compulsory chapel often lasted well into the twentieth century . Penn and Brown were officially founded as nonsectarian schools . Brown 's charter promised no religious tests and `` full liberty of conscience '' , but placed control in the hands of a board of twenty - two Baptists , five Quakers , four Congregationalists , and five Episcopalians . Cornell has been strongly nonsectarian from its founding . `` Ivy League '' is sometimes used as a way of referring to an elite class , even though institutions such as Cornell University were among the first in the United States to reject racial and gender discrimination in their admissions policies . This dates back to at least 1935 . Novels and memoirs attest this sense , as a social elite ; to some degree independent of the actual schools . After the Second World War , the present Ivy League institutions slowly widened their selection of their students . They had always had distinguished faculties ; some of the first Americans with doctorates had taught for them ; but they now decided that they could not both be world - class research institutions and be competitive in the highest ranks of American college sport ; in addition , the schools experienced the scandals of any other big - time football programs , although more quietly . The first formal athletic league involving eventual Ivy League schools ( or any US colleges , for that matter ) was created in 1870 with the formation of the Rowing Association of American Colleges . The RAAC hosted a de facto national championship in rowing during the period 1870 -- 1894 . In 1895 , Cornell , Columbia , and Penn founded the Intercollegiate Rowing Association , which remains the oldest collegiate athletic organizing body in the US . To this day , the IRA Championship Regatta determines the national champion in rowing and all of the Ivies are regularly invited to compete . A basketball league was later created in 1902 , when Columbia , Cornell , Harvard , Yale and Princeton formed the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League ; they were later joined by Penn and Dartmouth . In 1906 , the organization that eventually became the National Collegiate Athletic Association was formed , primarily to formalize rules for the emerging sport of football . But of the 39 original member colleges in the NCAA , only two of them ( Dartmouth and Penn ) later became Ivies . In February 1903 , intercollegiate wrestling began when Yale accepted a challenge from Columbia , published in the Yale News . The dual meet took place prior to a basketball game hosted by Columbia and resulted in a tie . Two years later , Penn and Princeton also added wrestling teams , leading to the formation of the student - run Intercollegiate Wrestling Association , now the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association ( EIWA ) , the first and oldest collegiate wrestling league in the US . In 1930 , Columbia , Cornell , Dartmouth , Penn , Princeton and Yale formed the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League ; they were later joined by Harvard , Brown , Army and Navy . Before the formal establishment of the Ivy League , there was an `` unwritten and unspoken agreement among certain Eastern colleges on athletic relations '' . The earliest reference to the `` Ivy colleges '' came in 1933 , when Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune used it to refer to the eight current members plus Army . In 1935 , the Associated Press reported on an example of collaboration between the schools : The athletic authorities of the so - called `` Ivy League '' are considering drastic measures to curb the increasing tendency toward riotous attacks on goal posts and other encroachments by spectators on playing fields . Despite such collaboration , the universities did not seem to consider the formation of the league as imminent . Romeyn Berry , Cornell 's manager of athletics , reported the situation in January 1936 as follows : I can say with certainty that in the last five years -- and markedly in the last three months -- there has been a strong drift among the eight or ten universities of the East which see a good deal of one another in sport toward a closer bond of confidence and cooperation and toward the formation of a common front against the threat of a breakdown in the ideals of amateur sport in the interests of supposed expediency . Please do not regard that statement as implying the organization of an Eastern conference or even a poetic `` Ivy League '' . That sort of thing does not seem to be in the cards at the moment . Within a year of this statement and having held month - long discussions about the proposal , on December 3 , 1936 , the idea of `` the formation of an Ivy League '' gained enough traction among the undergraduate bodies of the universities that the Columbia Daily Spectator , The Cornell Daily Sun , The Dartmouth , The Harvard Crimson , The Daily Pennsylvanian , The Daily Princetonian and the Yale Daily News would simultaneously run an editorial entitled `` Now Is the Time '' , encouraging the seven universities to form the league in an effort to preserve the ideals of athletics . Part of the editorial read as follows : The Ivy League exists already in the minds of a good many of those connected with football , and we fail to see why the seven schools concerned should be satisfied to let it exist as a purely nebulous entity where there are so many practical benefits which would be possible under definite organized association . The seven colleges involved fall naturally together by reason of their common interests and similar general standards and by dint of their established national reputation they are in a particularly advantageous position to assume leadership for the preservation of the ideals of intercollegiate athletics . The Ivies have been competing in sports as long as intercollegiate sports have existed in the United States . Rowing teams from Harvard and Yale met in the first sporting event held between students of two U.S. colleges on Lake Winnipesaukee , New Hampshire , on August 3 , 1852 . Harvard 's team , `` The Oneida '' , won the race and was presented with trophy black walnut oars from then presidential nominee General Franklin Pierce . The proposal did not succeed -- on January 11 , 1937 , the athletic authorities at the schools rejected the `` possibility of a heptagonal league in football such as these institutions maintain in basketball , baseball and track . '' However , they noted that the league `` has such promising possibilities that it may not be dismissed and must be the subject of further consideration . '' In 1945 the presidents of the eight schools signed the first Ivy Group Agreement , which set academic , financial , and athletic standards for the football teams . The principles established reiterated those put forward in the Harvard - Yale - Princeton Presidents ' Agreement of 1916 . The Ivy Group Agreement established the core tenet that an applicant 's ability to play on a team would not influence admissions decisions : The members of the Group reaffirm their prohibition of athletic scholarships . Athletes shall be admitted as students and awarded financial aid only on the basis of the same academic standards and economic need as are applied to all other students . In 1954 , the presidents extended the Ivy Group Agreement to all intercollegiate sports , effective with the 1955 -- 56 basketball season . This is generally reckoned as the formal formation of the Ivy League . As part of the transition , Brown , the only Ivy that had n't joined the EIBL , did so for the 1954 -- 55 season . A year later , the Ivy League absorbed the EIBL . The Ivy League claims the EIBL 's history as its own . Through the EIBL , it is the oldest basketball conference in Division I . As late as the 1960s many of the Ivy League universities ' undergraduate programs remained open only to men , with Cornell the only one to have been coeducational from its founding ( 1865 ) and Columbia being the last ( 1983 ) to become coeducational . Before they became coeducational , many of the Ivy schools maintained extensive social ties with nearby Seven Sisters women 's colleges , including weekend visits , dances and parties inviting Ivy and Seven Sisters students to mingle . This was the case not only at Barnard College and Radcliffe College , which are adjacent to Columbia and Harvard , but at more distant institutions as well . The movie Animal House includes a satiric version of the formerly common visits by Dartmouth men to Massachusetts to meet Smith and Mount Holyoke women , a drive of more than two hours . As noted by Irene Harwarth , Mindi Maline , and Elizabeth DeBra , `` The ' Seven Sisters ' was the name given to Barnard , Smith , Mount Holyoke , Vassar , Bryn Mawr , Wellesley , and Radcliffe , because of their parallel to the Ivy League men 's colleges . '' In 1982 the Ivy League considered adding two members , with Army , Navy , and Northwestern as the most likely candidates ; if it had done so , the league could probably have avoided being moved into the recently created Division I - AA ( now Division I FCS ) for football . In 1983 , following the admission of women to Columbia College , Columbia University and Barnard College entered into an athletic consortium agreement by which students from both schools compete together on Columbia University women 's athletic teams , which replaced the women 's teams previously sponsored by Barnard . When Army and Navy departed the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League in 1992 , all intercollegiate competition involving the eight schools became united under the Ivy League banner . Admission statistics ( Class of 2020 ) Applicants Admission rates Brown 32,390 9.01 % Columbia 36,292 6.04 % Cornell 44,966 13.96 % Dartmouth 20,675 10.52 % Harvard 39,041 5.22 % Penn 38,918 9.4 % Princeton 29,303 6.46 % Yale 31,455 6.27 % Applicants Admission rates Brown 32,390 9.01 % Columbia 36,292 6.04 % Cornell 44,966 13.96 % Dartmouth 20,675 10.52 % Harvard 39,041 5.22 % Penn 38,918 9.4 % Princeton 29,303 6.46 % Yale 31,455 6.27 % The Ivy League schools are highly selective , with acceptance rates since 2000 ranging from 6 to 16 percent at each of the universities . Admitted students come from around the world , although students from New England and the Northeastern United States make up a significant proportion of students . Members of the League have been highly ranked by various university rankings . National academic rankings University ( in alphabetical order ) ARWU ( 2017 ) Forbes ( 2017 ) USNWR ( 2018 ) Washington Monthly ( 2017 ) Brown 101 - 150 9 14 41 Columbia 8 14 5 16 Cornell 14 15 14 32 Dartmouth 201 - 300 12 11 27 Harvard Penn 17 7 8 7 Princeton 6 11 Yale 11 10 University ( in alphabetical order ) ARWU ( 2017 ) Forbes ( 2017 ) USNWR ( 2018 ) Washington Monthly ( 2017 ) Brown 101 - 150 9 14 41 Columbia 8 14 5 16 Cornell 14 15 14 32 Dartmouth 201 - 300 12 11 27 Harvard Penn 17 7 8 7 Princeton 6 11 Yale 11 10 Further , Ivy League members have produced many Nobel laureates , winners of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences . According to the Nobel Foundation 's website , as of 2016 the number of prize - winners affiliated with each Ivy League university at the time of their awards is : Brown , 2 ; Columbia , 17 ; Cornell , 8 ; Dartmouth , 0 ; Harvard , 36 ; Penn , 4 ; Princeton , 14 ; and Yale , 8 . In addition , each university self - reports their number of affiliated Nobel laureates , but they use varying definitions for which Nobel winners they claim ( for example , alumni , active faculty , former faculty , visiting faculty , adjunct faculty , etc . ) Collaboration between the member schools is illustrated by the student - led Ivy Council that meets in the fall and spring of each year , with representatives from every Ivy League school . The governing body of the Ivy League is the Council of Ivy Group Presidents , composed of each university president . During meetings , the presidents often discuss common procedures and initiatives for the universities . Different fashion trends and styles have emerged from Ivy League campuses over time , and fashion trends such as Ivy League and Preppy are styles often associated with the Ivy League and its culture . Ivy League style is a style of men 's dress , popular during the late 1950s , believed to have originated on Ivy League campuses . The clothing stores J. Press and Brooks Brothers represent perhaps the quintessential Ivy League dress manner . The Ivy League style is said to be the predecessor to the preppy style of dress . Preppy fashion started around 1912 to the late 1940s and 1950s as the Ivy League style of dress . J. Press represents the quintessential preppy clothing brand , stemming from the collegiate traditions that shaped the preppy subculture . In the mid-twentieth century J. Press and Brooks Brothers , both being pioneers in preppy fashion , had stores on Ivy League school campuses , including Harvard , Princeton , and Yale . Some typical preppy styles also reflect traditional upper class New England leisure activities , such as equestrian , sailing or yachting , hunting , fencing , rowing , lacrosse , tennis , golf , and rugby . Longtime New England outdoor outfitters , such as L.L. Bean , became part of conventional preppy style . This can be seen in sport stripes and colours , equestrian clothing , plaid shirts , field jackets and nautical - themed accessories . Vacationing in Palm Beach , Florida , long popular with the East Coast upper class , led to the emergence of bright colour combinations in leisure wear seen in some brands such as Lilly Pulitzer . By the 1980s , other brands such as Lacoste , Izod and Dooney & Bourke became associated with preppy style . Today , these styles continue to be popular on Ivy League campuses , throughout the U.S. , and abroad , and are oftentimes labeled as `` Classic American style '' or `` Traditional American style '' . The Ivy League is often associated with the upper class White Anglo - Saxon Protestant community of the Northeast , Old Money , or more generally , the American upper middle and upper classes . Although most Ivy League students come from upper middle - and upper - class families , the student body has become increasingly more economically and ethnically diverse . The universities provide significant financial aid to help increase the enrollment of lower income and middle class students . Several reports suggest , however , that the proportion of students from less - affluent families remains low . Phrases such as `` Ivy League snobbery '' are ubiquitous in nonfiction and fiction writing of the early and mid-twentieth century . A Louis Auchincloss character dreads `` the aridity of snobbery which he knew infected the Ivy League colleges '' . A business writer , warning in 2001 against discriminatory hiring , presented a cautionary example of an attitude to avoid ( the bracketed phrase is his ) : We Ivy Leaguers ( read : mostly white and Anglo ) know that an Ivy League degree is a mark of the kind of person who is likely to succeed in this organization . The phrase Ivy League historically has been perceived as connected not only with academic excellence , but also with social elitism . In 1936 , sportswriter John Kieran noted that student editors at Harvard , Yale , Princeton , Cornell , Columbia , Dartmouth , and Penn were advocating the formation of an athletic association . In urging them to consider `` Army and Navy and Georgetown and Fordham and Syracuse and Brown and Pitt '' as candidates for membership , he exhorted : It would be well for the proponents of the Ivy League to make it clear ( to themselves especially ) that the proposed group would be inclusive but not `` exclusive '' as this term is used with a slight up - tilting of the tip of the nose . Aspects of Ivy stereotyping were illustrated during the 1988 presidential election , when George H.W. Bush ( Yale ' 48 ) derided Michael Dukakis ( graduate of Harvard Law School ) for having `` foreign - policy views born in Harvard Yard 's boutique . '' New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd asked `` Was n't this a case of the pot calling the kettle elite ? '' Bush explained , however , that , unlike Harvard , Yale 's reputation was `` so diffuse , there is n't a symbol , I do n't think , in the Yale situation , any symbolism in it ... Harvard boutique to me has the connotation of liberalism and elitism '' and said Harvard in his remark was intended to represent `` a philosophical enclave '' and not a statement about class . Columnist Russell Baker opined that `` Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard . All they know is that both are full of rich , fancy , stuck - up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets . '' Still , the last five presidents have all attended Ivy League schools for at least part of their education -- George H.W. Bush ( Yale undergrad ) , Bill Clinton ( Yale Law School ) , George W. Bush ( Yale undergrad , Harvard Business School ) , Barack Obama ( Columbia undergrad , Harvard Law School ) , and Donald Trump ( Penn undergrad ) . Of the forty - four men who have served as President of the United States , fifteen have graduated from an Ivy League university . Of them , eight have degrees from Harvard , five from Yale , three from Columbia , two from Princeton and one from Penn . Twelve presidents have earned Ivy undergraduate degrees . Three of these were transfer students : Donald Trump transferred from Fordham University , Barack Obama transferred from Occidental College and John F. Kennedy transferred from another Ivy , Princeton , where he had been class of 1939 . John Adams was the first president to graduate from college , graduating from Harvard in 1755 . President School ( s ) Graduation year John Adams Harvard University 1755 James Madison Princeton University 1771 John Quincy Adams Harvard University 1787 William Henry Harrison University of Pennsylvania ( withdrew ) Rutherford B. Hayes Harvard Law School 1845 Theodore Roosevelt Harvard University Columbia Law School 1880 ( withdrew ) ( Awarded J.D. in 2008 , class of 1882 ) William Howard Taft Yale University 1878 Woodrow Wilson Princeton University 1879 Franklin D. Roosevelt Harvard University Columbia Law School 1903 ( withdrew ) ( Awarded J.D. in 2008 , class of 1907 ) John F. Kennedy Princeton University Harvard University ( withdrew ) 1940 Gerald Ford Yale Law School 1941 George H.W. Bush Yale University 1948 Bill Clinton Yale Law School 1973 George W. Bush Yale University Harvard Business School 1968 Barack Obama Columbia University Harvard Law School 1991 Donald Trump University of Pennsylvania 1968 President School ( s ) Graduation year John Adams Harvard University 1755 James Madison Princeton University 1771 John Quincy Adams Harvard University 1787 William Henry Harrison University of Pennsylvania ( withdrew ) Rutherford B. Hayes Harvard Law School 1845 Theodore Roosevelt Harvard University Columbia Law School 1880 ( withdrew ) ( Awarded J.D. in 2008 , class of 1882 ) William Howard Taft Yale University 1878 Woodrow Wilson Princeton University 1879 Franklin D. Roosevelt Harvard University Columbia Law School 1903 ( withdrew ) ( Awarded J.D. in 2008 , class of 1907 ) John F. Kennedy Princeton University Harvard University ( withdrew ) 1940 Gerald Ford Yale Law School 1941 George H.W. Bush Yale University 1948 Bill Clinton Yale Law School 1973 George W. Bush Yale University Harvard Business School 1968 Barack Obama Columbia University Harvard Law School 1991 Donald Trump University of Pennsylvania 1968 Racial and / or ethnic background ( 2011 ) Asian Black Hispanic ( of any race ) Non-Hispanic White Other / international Unknown Brown 14 % 6 % 10 % 45 % 14 % 11 % Columbia 15 % 8 % 13 % 41 % 17 % 6 % Cornell 17 % 6 % 10 % 46 % 13 % 10 % Dartmouth 14 % 8 % 9 % 48 % 13 % 8 % Harvard 12 % 7 % 9 % 45 % 22 % 6 % Penn 19 % 7 % 8 % 46 % 13 % 7 % Princeton 18 % 7 % 8 % 49 % 15 % 3 % Yale 15 % 6 % 8 % 58 % 5 % 8 % United States 5 % 13 % 17 % 63 % 4 % NA Asian Black Hispanic ( of any race ) Non-Hispanic White Other / international Unknown Brown 14 % 6 % 10 % 45 % 14 % 11 % Columbia 15 % 8 % 13 % 41 % 17 % 6 % Cornell 17 % 6 % 10 % 46 % 13 % 10 % Dartmouth 14 % 8 % 9 % 48 % 13 % 8 % Harvard 12 % 7 % 9 % 45 % 22 % 6 % Penn 19 % 7 % 8 % 46 % 13 % 7 % Princeton 18 % 7 % 8 % 49 % 15 % 3 % Yale 15 % 6 % 8 % 58 % 5 % 8 % United States 5 % 13 % 17 % 63 % 4 % NA Students of the Ivy League largely hail from the Northeast , largely from the New York City , Boston , and Philadelphia areas . As all eight Ivy League universities are within the Northeast , it is no surprise that most graduates end up working and residing in the Northeast after graduation . An unscientific survey of Harvard seniors from the Class of 2013 found that 42 % hailed from the Northeast and 55 % overall were planning on working and residing in the Northeast . Boston and New York City are traditionally where many Ivy League graduates end up living . Students of the Ivy League , both graduate and undergraduate , come primarily from upper middle and upper class families . In recent years , however , the universities have looked towards increasing socioeconomic and class diversity , by providing greater financial aid packages to applicants from lower , working , and middle class American families . In 2013 , 46 % of Harvard undergraduate students came from families in the top 3.8 % of all American households ( i.e. , over $200,000 annual income ) . In 2012 , the bottom 25 % of the American income distribution accounted for only 3 -- 4 % of students at Brown , a figure that had remained unchanged since 1992 . In 2014 , 69 % of incoming freshmen students at Yale College came from families with annual incomes of over $120,000 , putting most Yale College students in the upper middle and / or upper class . ( The median household income in the U.S. in 2013 was $52,700 . ) In the 2011 -- 2012 academic year , students qualifying for Pell Grants ( federally funded scholarships on the basis of need ) comprised 20 % at Harvard , 18 % at Cornell , 17 % at Penn , 16 % at Columbia , 15 % at Dartmouth and Brown , 14 % at Yale , and 12 % at Princeton . Nationally , 35 % of American university students qualify for a Pell Grant . Ivy champions are recognized in sixteen men 's and sixteen women 's sports . In some sports , Ivy teams actually compete as members of another league , the Ivy championship being decided by isolating the members ' records in play against each other ; for example , the six league members who participate in ice hockey do so as members of ECAC Hockey , but an Ivy champion is extrapolated each year . The Ivy League was the last Division I basketball conference to institute a conference postseason tournament ; the first tournaments for men and women were held at the end of the 2016 -- 17 season . The tournaments only award the Ivy League automatic bids for the NCAA Division I Men 's and Women 's Basketball Tournaments ; the official conference championships continue to be awarded based solely on regular - season results . Before the 2016 -- 17 season , the automatic bids were based solely on regular - season record , with a one - game playoff ( or series of one - game playoffs if more than two teams were tied ) held to determine the automatic bid . The Ivy League is one of only two Division I conferences which award their official basketball championships solely on regular - season results ; the other is the Southeastern Conference . Since its inception , an Ivy League school has yet to win either the men 's or women 's Division I NCAA Basketball Tournament . On average , each Ivy school has more than 35 varsity teams . All eight are in the top 20 for number of sports offered for both men and women among Division I schools . Unlike most Division I athletic conferences , the Ivy League prohibits the granting of athletic scholarships ; all scholarships awarded are need - based ( financial aid ) . In addition , the Ivies have a rigid policy against redshirting , even for medical reasons ; an athlete loses a year of eligibility for every year enrolled at an Ivy institution . Ivy League teams ' non-league games are often against the members of the Patriot League , which have similar academic standards and athletic scholarship policies ( although unlike the Ivies , the Patriot League allows redshirting ) . In the time before recruiting for college sports became dominated by those offering athletic scholarships and lowered academic standards for athletes , the Ivy League was successful in many sports relative to other universities in the country . In particular , Princeton won 26 recognized national championships in college football ( last in 1935 ) , and Yale won 18 ( last in 1927 ) . Both of these totals are considerably higher than those of other historically strong programs such as Alabama , which has won 15 , Notre Dame , which claims 11 but is credited by many sources with 13 , and USC , which has won 11 . Yale , whose coach Walter Camp was the `` Father of American Football , '' held on to its place as the all - time wins leader in college football throughout the entire 20th century , but was finally passed by Michigan on November 10 , 2001 . Harvard , Yale , Princeton and Penn each have over a dozen former scholar - athletes enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame . Currently Dartmouth holds the record for most Ivy League football titles , with 18 , followed closely by Harvard and Penn , each with 17 titles . In addition , the Ivy League has produced Super Bowl winners Kevin Boothe ( Cornell ) , two - time Pro Bowler Zak DeOssie ( Brown ) , Sean Morey ( Brown ) , All - Pro selection Matt Birk ( Harvard ) , Calvin Hill ( Yale ) , Derrick Harmon ( Cornell ) and 1999 `` Mr. Irrelevant '' Jim Finn ( Penn ) . Beginning with the 1982 football season , the Ivy League has competed in Division I - AA ( renamed FCS in 2006 ) . The Ivy League teams are eligible for the FCS tournament held to determine the national champion , and the league champion is eligible for an automatic bid ( and any other team may qualify for an at - large selection ) from the NCAA . However , the Ivy League has not played any postseason games at all since 1956 due to the league 's concerns about the extended December schedule 's effects on academics . For this reason , any Ivy League team invited to the FCS playoffs turns down the bid . The Ivy League plays a strict 10 - game schedule , compared to other FCS members ' schedules of 11 ( or , in some seasons , 12 ) regular season games , plus post-season , which was most recently expanded in 2013 to five rounds with 24 teams , with a bye week for the top eight teams . Football is the only sport in which the Ivy League declines to compete for a national title . In addition to varsity football , Penn , Princeton and Cornell also field teams in the eight - team Collegiate Sprint Football League , in which all players must weigh 172 pounds or less . Penn and Princeton are the last remaining founding members of the league from its 1934 debut , and Cornell is the next - oldest , joining in 1937 . Yale and Columbia previously fielded teams in the league but no longer do so . Teams in Ivy League competition Sport Men 's Women 's Baseball 8 - Basketball 8 8 Cross-country 8 8 Fencing 6 7 Field hockey - 8 Football 8 - Golf 8 7 Ice hockey 6 6 Lacrosse 7 8 Rowing 7 7 Soccer 8 8 Softball - 8 Squash 8 8 Swimming and diving 7 8 Tennis 8 8 Track and field ( indoor ) 8 8 Track and field ( outdoor ) 8 8 Volleyball - 8 Wrestling 6 - Sport Men 's Women 's Baseball 8 - Basketball 8 8 Cross-country 8 8 Fencing 6 7 Field hockey - 8 Football 8 - Golf 8 7 Ice hockey 6 6 Lacrosse 7 8 Rowing 7 7 Soccer 8 8 Softball - 8 Squash 8 8 Swimming and diving 7 8 Tennis 8 8 Track and field ( indoor ) 8 8 Track and field ( outdoor ) 8 8 Volleyball - 8 Wrestling 6 - The Ivy League is home to some of the oldest college rugby teams in the United States . Although these teams are not `` varsity '' sports , they compete annually in the Ivy Rugby Conference . Total championships won ( 1956 -- 2017 ) Institution Ivy League Championships NCAA Team Championships Princeton University Tigers 476 12 Harvard University Crimson 415 Cornell University Big Red 231 5 University of Pennsylvania Quakers 210 Yale University Bulldogs 202 Dartmouth College Big Green 140 Brown University Bears 123 7 Columbia University Lions 105 11 Institution Ivy League Championships NCAA Team Championships Princeton University Tigers 476 12 Harvard University Crimson 415 Cornell University Big Red 231 5 University of Pennsylvania Quakers 210 Yale University Bulldogs 202 Dartmouth College Big Green 140 Brown University Bears 123 7 Columbia University Lions 105 11 The table above includes the number of team championships won from the beginning of official Ivy League competition ( 1956 -- 57 academic year ) through 2016 - 17 . Princeton and Harvard have on occasion won ten or more Ivy League titles in a year , an achievement accomplished 10 times by Harvard and 24 times by Princeton , including a conference - record 15 championships in 2010 -- 11 . Only once has one of the other six schools earned more than eight titles in a single academic year ( Cornell with nine in 2005 -- 06 ) . In the 38 academic years beginning 1979 -- 80 , Princeton has averaged 10 championships per year , one - third of the conference total of 33 sponsored sports . In the 12 academic years beginning 2005 -- 06 Princeton has won championships in 31 different sports , all except wrestling and men 's tennis . Rivalries run deep in the Ivy League . For instance , Princeton and Penn are longstanding men 's basketball rivals ; `` Puck Frinceton '' T - shirts are worn by Quaker fans at games . In only 11 instances in the history of Ivy League basketball , and in only seven seasons since Yale 's 1962 title , has neither Penn nor Princeton won at least a share of the Ivy League title in basketball , with Princeton champion or co-champion 26 times and Penn 25 times . Penn has won 21 outright , Princeton 19 outright . Princeton has been a co-champion 7 times , sharing 4 of those titles with Penn ( these 4 seasons represent the only times Penn has been co-champion ) . Harvard won its first title of either variety in 2011 , losing a dramatic play - off game to Princeton for the NCAA tournament bid , then rebounded to win outright championships in 2012 , 2013 , and 2014 . Harvard also won the 2013 Great Alaska Shootout , defeating TCU to become the only Ivy League school to win the now - defunct tournament . Rivalries exist between other Ivy league teams in other sports , including Cornell and Harvard in hockey , Harvard and Princeton in swimming , and Harvard and Penn in football ( Penn and Harvard have won 28 Ivy League Football Championships since 1982 , Penn - 16 ; Harvard - 12 ) . During that time Penn has had 8 undefeated Ivy League Football Championships and Harvard has had 6 undefeated Ivy League Football Championships . In men 's lacrosse , Cornell and Princeton are perennial rivals , and they are the only two Ivy League teams to have won the NCAA tournament . In 2009 , the Big Red and Tigers met for their 70th game in the NCAA tournament . No team other than Harvard or Princeton has won the men 's swimming conference title outright since 1972 , although Yale , Columbia , and Cornell have shared the title with Harvard and Princeton during this time . Similarly , no program other than Princeton and Harvard has won the women 's swimming championship since Brown 's 1999 title . Princeton or Cornell has won every indoor and outdoor track and field championship , both men 's and women 's , every year since 2002 -- 03 , with one exception ( Columbia women won indoor championship in 2012 ) . Harvard and Yale are football and crew rivals although the competition has become unbalanced ; Harvard has won all but one of the last 15 football games and all but one of the last 13 crew races . Teams Name Trophy First met Games played Series record Columbia - Cornell Empire State Bowl Empire Cup 1889 103 games 36 -- 64 -- 3 Cornell - Penn None Trustee 's Cup 1893 122 games 46 -- 71 -- 5 Dartmouth - Princeton None Sawhorse Dollar 1897 95 games 48 -- 43 -- 4 Harvard - Yale The Game None 1875 132 games 59 -- 65 -- 8 Princeton - Yale None None 1873 138 games 52 -- 76 -- 10 Teams Name Trophy First met Games played Series record Columbia - Cornell Empire State Bowl Empire Cup 1889 103 games 36 -- 64 -- 3 Cornell - Penn None Trustee 's Cup 1893 122 games 46 -- 71 -- 5 Dartmouth - Princeton None Sawhorse Dollar 1897 95 games 48 -- 43 -- 4 Harvard - Yale The Game None 1875 132 games 59 -- 65 -- 8 Princeton - Yale None None 1873 138 games 52 -- 76 -- 10 The Yale - Princeton series is the nation 's second longest , exceeded only by `` The Rivalry '' between Lehigh and Lafayette , which began later in 1884 but included two or three games in each of 17 early seasons . For the first three decades of the Yale - Princeton rivalry , the two played their season - ending game at a neutral site , usually New York City , and with one exception ( 1890 : Harvard ) , the winner of the game also won at least a share of the national championship that year , covering the period 1869 through 1903 . This phenomenon of a finale contest at a neutral site for the national title created a social occasion for the society elite of the metropolitan area akin to a Super Bowl in the era prior to the establishment of the NFL in 1920 . These football games were also financially profitable for the two universities , so much that they began to play baseball games in New York City as well , drawing record crowds for that sport also , largely from the same social demographic . In a period when the only professional sports were fledgling baseball leagues , these high - profile early contests between Princeton and Yale played a role in popularizing spectator sports , demonstrating their financial potential and raising public awareness of Ivy universities at a time when few people attended college . Teams Name Trophy First met Games played Series record Brown - Rhode Island None Governor 's Cup 1909 98 games 70 -- 26 -- 2 Columbia - Fordham None Liberty Cup 1890 22 games 12 -- 10 -- 0 Cornell - Colgate None None 1896 95 games 48 -- 44 -- 3 Dartmouth - New Hampshire Granite Bowl Granite Bowl Trophy 1901 37 games 17 -- 18 -- 2 Harvard - Holy Cross None None 1904 67 games 41 -- 24 -- 2 Penn - Lafayette None None 1882 90 games 63 -- 23 -- 4 Penn - Lehigh None None 1885 56 games 43 - 13 Princeton - Rutgers None None 1869 71 games 53 -- 17 -- 1 Yale - Army None None 1893 45 games 22 -- 16 -- 8 Teams Name Trophy First met Games played Series record Brown - Rhode Island None Governor 's Cup 1909 98 games 70 -- 26 -- 2 Columbia - Fordham None Liberty Cup 1890 22 games 12 -- 10 -- 0 Cornell - Colgate None None 1896 95 games 48 -- 44 -- 3 Dartmouth - New Hampshire Granite Bowl Granite Bowl Trophy 1901 37 games 17 -- 18 -- 2 Harvard - Holy Cross None None 1904 67 games 41 -- 24 -- 2 Penn - Lafayette None None 1882 90 games 63 -- 23 -- 4 Penn - Lehigh None None 1885 56 games 43 - 13 Princeton - Rutgers None None 1869 71 games 53 -- 17 -- 1 Yale - Army None None 1893 45 games 22 -- 16 -- 8 This list , which is current through July 1 , 2015 , includes NCAA championships and women 's AIAW championships ( one each for Yale and Dartmouth ) . Excluded from this list are all other national championships earned outside the scope of NCAA competition , including football titles and retroactive Helms Foundation titles . School Total Men Women Co-ed Nickname Yale University 29 26 0 Bulldogs Princeton University 24 19 Tigers Columbia University 14 11 0 Lions Harvard University 10 7 Crimson Brown University 7 0 7 0 Bears Cornell University 5 5 0 0 Big Red Dartmouth College 5 Big Green University of Pennsylvania 0 Quakers School Total Men Women Co-ed Nickname Yale University 29 26 0 Bulldogs Princeton University 24 19 Tigers Columbia University 14 11 0 Lions Harvard University 10 7 Crimson Brown University 7 0 7 0 Bears Cornell University 5 5 0 0 Big Red Dartmouth College 5 Big Green University of Pennsylvania 0 Quakers ^ Jump up to : The NCAA started sponsoring the intercollegiate golf championship in 1939 , but it retained the titles from the 41 championships previously conferred by the National Intercollegiate Golf Association in its records . Of these pre-NCAA titles , Yale , Princeton , Harvard and Dartmouth won 20 , 11 , 6 and 1 , respectively . ^ Jump up to : The NCAA started sponsoring the intercollegiate golf championship in 1939 , but it retained the titles from the 41 championships previously conferred by the National Intercollegiate Golf Association in its records . Of these pre-NCAA titles , Yale , Princeton , Harvard and Dartmouth won 20 , 11 , 6 and 1 , respectively . Football stadium Basketball arena Baseball field Hockey rink Soccer stadium School Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Brown Brown Stadium 7004200000000000000 ♠ 20,000 1925 Pizzitola Sports Center 7003280000000000000 ♠ 2,800 Murray Stadium 7003100000000000000 ♠ 1,000 1959 Meehan Auditorium 7003310000000000000 ♠ 3,100 1961 Stevenson Field 7003350000000000000 ♠ 3,500 1979 Columbia Wien Stadium 7004170000000000000 ♠ 17,000 1984 Levien Gymnasium 7003340800000000000 ♠ 3,408 Hal Robertson Field at Phillip Satow Stadium N / A N / A Non-hockey school Commisso Soccer Stadium 7003350000000000000 ♠ 3,500 1985 Cornell Schoellkopf Field 7004255970000000000 ♠ 25,597 1915 Newman Arena 7003447200000000000 ♠ 4,472 Hoy Field 7002500000000000000 ♠ 500 1922 Lynah Rink 7003426700000000000 ♠ 4,267 1957 Charles F. Berman Field 7003100000000000000 ♠ 1,000 2000 Dartmouth Memorial Field 7004156000000000000 ♠ 15,600 1923 Leede Arena 7003210000000000000 ♠ 2,100 1986 Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park 7003200000000000000 ♠ 2,000 2008 Thompson Arena 7003450000000000000 ♠ 4,500 Burnham Field 7003160000000000000 ♠ 1,600 2007 Harvard Harvard Stadium 7004308980000000000 ♠ 30,898 1903 Lavietes Pavilion 7003219500000000000 ♠ 2,195 1926 Joseph J. O'Donnell Field 7003160000000000000 ♠ 1,600 1898 Bright Hockey Center 7003285000000000000 ♠ 2,850 1956 Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium 7003250000000000000 ♠ 2,500 Penn Franklin Field 7004525930000000000 ♠ 52,593 1895 The Palestra 7003872200000000000 ♠ 8,722 1927 Meiklejohn Stadium 7002850000000000000 ♠ 850 2000 Class of 1923 Arena 7003250000000000000 ♠ 2,500 1972 Rhodes Field 7003170000000000000 ♠ 1,700 2002 Princeton Princeton University Stadium 7004278000000000000 ♠ 27,800 1998 Jadwin Gymnasium 7003685400000000000 ♠ 6,854 1969 Bill Clarke Field 7002850000000000000 ♠ 850 1961 Hobey Baker Memorial Rink 7003209400000000000 ♠ 2,094 1923 Roberts Stadium 7003300000000000000 ♠ 3,000 2008 Yale Yale Bowl 7004614460000000000 ♠ 61,446 1914 Payne Whitney Gymnasium 7003310000000000000 ♠ 3,100 1932 Yale Field 7003620000000000000 ♠ 6,200 1927 Ingalls Rink 7003348600000000000 ♠ 3,486 1958 Reese Stadium 7003300000000000000 ♠ 3,000 1981 Football stadium Basketball arena Baseball field Hockey rink Soccer stadium School Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Name Capacity Year Brown Brown Stadium 7004200000000000000 ♠ 20,000 1925 Pizzitola Sports Center 7003280000000000000 ♠ 2,800 Murray Stadium 7003100000000000000 ♠ 1,000 1959 Meehan Auditorium 7003310000000000000 ♠ 3,100 1961 Stevenson Field 7003350000000000000 ♠ 3,500 1979 Columbia Wien Stadium 7004170000000000000 ♠ 17,000 1984 Levien Gymnasium 7003340800000000000 ♠ 3,408 Hal Robertson Field at Phillip Satow Stadium N / A N / A Non-hockey school Commisso Soccer Stadium 7003350000000000000 ♠ 3,500 1985 Cornell Schoellkopf Field 7004255970000000000 ♠ 25,597 1915 Newman Arena 7003447200000000000 ♠ 4,472 Hoy Field 7002500000000000000 ♠ 500 1922 Lynah Rink 7003426700000000000 ♠ 4,267 1957 Charles F. Berman Field 7003100000000000000 ♠ 1,000 2000 Dartmouth Memorial Field 7004156000000000000 ♠ 15,600 1923 Leede Arena 7003210000000000000 ♠ 2,100 1986 Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park 7003200000000000000 ♠ 2,000 2008 Thompson Arena 7003450000000000000 ♠ 4,500 Burnham Field 7003160000000000000 ♠ 1,600 2007 Harvard Harvard Stadium 7004308980000000000 ♠ 30,898 1903 Lavietes Pavilion 7003219500000000000 ♠ 2,195 1926 Joseph J. O'Donnell Field 7003160000000000000 ♠ 1,600 1898 Bright Hockey Center 7003285000000000000 ♠ 2,850 1956 Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium 7003250000000000000 ♠ 2,500 Penn Franklin Field 7004525930000000000 ♠ 52,593 1895 The Palestra 7003872200000000000 ♠ 8,722 1927 Meiklejohn Stadium 7002850000000000000 ♠ 850 2000 Class of 1923 Arena 7003250000000000000 ♠ 2,500 1972 Rhodes Field 7003170000000000000 ♠ 1,700 2002 Princeton Princeton University Stadium 7004278000000000000 ♠ 27,800 1998 Jadwin Gymnasium 7003685400000000000 ♠ 6,854 1969 Bill Clarke Field 7002850000000000000 ♠ 850 1961 Hobey Baker Memorial Rink 7003209400000000000 ♠ 2,094 1923 Roberts Stadium 7003300000000000000 ♠ 3,000 2008 Yale Yale Bowl 7004614460000000000 ♠ 61,446 1914 Payne Whitney Gymnasium 7003310000000000000 ♠ 3,100 1932 Yale Field 7003620000000000000 ♠ 6,200 1927 Ingalls Rink 7003348600000000000 ♠ 3,486 1958 Reese Stadium 7003300000000000000 ♠ 3,000 1981 The term Ivy is often used to connote a positive comparison to or association with the Ivy League , often along academic lines . The term has been used to describe the Little Ivies , a grouping of small liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States . Other uses include the Southern Ivies , Hidden Ivies , and the Public Ivies . The 2007 edition of Newsweek 's How to Get Into College Now , the editors designated 25 schools as `` New Ivies '' . 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 . '' In their 2015 book Acing Admissions , Mehta and Dixit write , `` The ( Ivy Plus schools ) include , but are not limited to : Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) , Stanford University and Northwestern University . Besides selectivity , these Ivy Plus colleges are thought to share similar values around academic and professional excellence , intellectual curiosity , leadership and civil engagement . ''
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