Ivy League

English: The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group. The term also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.

Maps

Universities

Medical Schools

National Labs

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Notable Alumni

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon (Princeton, 1986)
W. E. B. Du Bois, philosopher (Harvard, 1895)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (Cornell, 1954; Columbia Law, 1959)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States (Harvard, 1904)
Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award-winning director (Columbia, 1979)