University Athletic Association

All UAA member schools are private research universities that tend to rank well in U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges Rankings. The UAA was the only NCAA conference to have all of its member institutions affiliated with the Association of American Universities, a collection of 65 Ph.D.-granting research institutions, with 63 in the United States and two in Canada, from 2011, when Nebraska joined the previously all-AAU Big Ten, until 2019 when Dartmouth became the last Ivy League institution to join the AAU. ==History==

{{OSM Location map|float=right|title=University Athletic Association|width=450|height=350|nolabels=1|coord=|zoom=5 Chronological timeline • 1986 – In 1986, the University Athletic Association (UAA) was founded. Charter members included Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University, Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, The University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, and Washington University in St. Louis, beginning the 1986–87 academic year. • 1987 – Brandeis University joined the UAA in the 1987–88 academic year. • 2001 – Johns Hopkins left the UAA to fully align all its sports into the Centennial Conference after the 2000–01 academic year. • 2018 – The UAA dropped football as a sponsored sport, due to its members joining other athletic conferences for that sport as affiliates or associates after the 2017 fall season (2017–18 academic year). ==Member schools==

Current members The UAA currently has eight full members, all are private schools: ;Notes: Former member The UAA had one former full member, which was also a private school: ;Notes: Membership timeline DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1986 till:2030 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:5 left:5 bottom:40 top:5 Colors = id:line value:black id:bg value:white id:Full value:rgb(0.7,0.9,0.8) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports id:FullxF value:rgb(0.9,0.8,0.7) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports except for football id:AssocF value:rgb(0.9,0.7,0.8) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member for football only id:AssocOS value:rgb(0.8,0.9,0.7) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member for another sport only id:OtherC1 value:rgb(0.996,0.996,0.699) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved in another conference id:OtherC2 value:rgb(0.988,0.703,0.383) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved in another conference when the other color has already been used PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:Full from:1986 till:2018 text:Carnegie Mellon (1986–present) bar:1 color:FullxF from:2018 till:end text: bar:2 color:Full from:1986 till:2018 text:Case Western Reserve (1986–present) bar:2 color:FullxF from:2018 till:end text: bar:3 color:Full from:1986 till:2018 text:Chicago (1986–present) bar:3 color:FullxF from:2018 till:end text: bar:4 color:Full from:1986 till:2018 text:Emory (1986–present) bar:4 color:FullxF from:2018 till:end text: bar:5 color:Full from:1986 till:2001 text:Johns Hopkins (1986–2001) bar:5 color:OtherC1 from:2001 till:end text:Centennial bar:6 color:Full from:1986 till:2018 text:NYU (1986–present) bar:6 color:FullxF from:2018 till:end text: bar:7 color:Full from:1986 till:2018 text:Rochester (1986–present) bar:7 color:FullxF from:2018 till:end text: bar:8 color:Full from:1986 till:2018 text:Washington-St. Louis (1986–present) bar:8 color:FullxF from:2018 till:end text: bar:9 color:Full from:1987 till:2018 text:Brandeis (1987–present) bar:9 color:FullxF from:2018 till:end text: ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:2 start:1986 TextData = fontsize:M textcolor:black pos:(0,20) tabs:(400-center) text:^"University Athletic Association membership history" • > If the chart uses more than one bar color, add a legend by selecting the appropriate fields from the following three options (use only the colors that are used in the graphic.) Leave a blank line after the end of the timeline, then add a line with the selected values from the list, separated by a space. ==Conference facilities==

The UAA sanctions competition in the following sports: Men's sponsored sports by school Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the UAA Women's sponsored sports by school Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the UAA ==References==