Ivy Plus

The Ivy League is a university athletic league comprising eight universities in the Northeastern United States that, according to U.S. News and World Report, "are considered the most sought-after institutions of higher learning in the country". Its members are: Brown University, Cornell University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. ==Included universities==

There is no common definition as to what non-Ivy League schools are part of the Ivy Plus, though Duke University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Chicago are the most commonly cited Ivy Plus institutions by multiple sources. Other institutions such as Georgetown University, The Ivy Plus Sustainability Consortium, established in 2007 to "advance sustainability in higher education," includes the University of Chicago, Duke University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, MIT, and Stanford University alongside the eight Ivy League institutions. The Ivy Plus Exchange Scholars Program, an institutionally-recognized graduate exchange program operated by a consortium of universities, includes the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, MIT, and Stanford University among its non-Ivy League members. In 2017, following the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement under the first Trump administration, the presidents of eight Ivy League universities, along with Duke, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and MIT, referring to themselves as the "Ivy-plus group", co-signed a joint statement to affirm their commitment to tackling climate change. Studies and research A 2023 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that, while "less than half of one percent of Americans attend Ivy-Plus colleges", they "account for more than 10 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs, a quarter of U.S. senators, and three-fourths of Supreme Court justices appointed in the last half-century". The study defined "Ivy Plus" as the Ivy League institutions plus Chicago, Duke, MIT, and Stanford. Forbes' New Ivies List Since 2024, Forbes has published a list of non-Ivy League universities based on exclusivity and surveys of hiring managers, arguing that "the public and employers have grown more skeptical of the value of an Ivy League degree". The 2025 private "New Ivies" list includes Carnegie Mellon University, Emory University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, Rice University, Tufts University, University of Notre Dame, Vanderbilt University, and Washington University in St Louis. ==See also==