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Public Ivy is a term coined by Richard Moll in his 1985 book Public Ivys: A Guide to America's best public undergraduate colleges and universities to refer to universities which "provide an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price. The Ivy League is an Athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. "[1] Public Ivies are considered, according to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, to be capable of "successfully competing with the Ivy League schools in academic rigor. . . attracting superstar faculty and in competing for the best and brightest students of all races. "[2]

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Origins of the term

Moll, who earned his Master of Divinity degree from Yale University in 1959,[3] was an admissions officer at Yale, and the director of admissions at Bowdoin College, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Vassar College. In Christian Theology, the Master of Divinity ( MDiv, Magister Divinitatis in Latin) is the first Professional degree Bowdoin College, founded in 1794 is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal New England town of Brunswick, Maine. Vassar College is a private Coeducational, liberal arts college situated in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. [3][4][5] He traveled the nation examining higher education and in particular, identified eight public institutions (the same as the number of Ivy League members) that he thought had the look and feel of an Ivy League university. In addition to academic excellence, other factors considered by Moll included those that were visually like an Ivy League, aged as an Ivy League, had traditions like an Ivy League, and so forth.

The original eight Public Ivies

The original eight Public Ivies list by Moll (1985):[2]

East coast

Inland & west coast

Moll also offered in the same book "a list of worthy runners-up" and brief summaries of them[7]:

Greenes' Guides

The more recent and expansive Greene's list (including a list of approximately 30 schools) had one focus alone: public schools with academic quality comparable to an Ivy League institution. The College of William and Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, also known as William & Mary or W&M) is a Public university Williamsburg is a city located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads region in southeastern Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research The University of Vermont is a national public research university and the state of Vermont's land-grant university Burlington is the largest city in the US state of Vermont and is the shire town ( County seat) of The University of Virginia (also called UVa, UVA, Mr Jefferson's University, or The University) is a highly selective public research Charlottesville is an Independent city located within the confines of Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States Miami University (colloquially and incorrectly referred to as Miami of Ohio for clarification purposes is a Coeducational Public university founded in 1809 Oxford is a city in northwestern Butler County, Ohio, United States, in the southwestern portion of the state Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The University of Colorado at Boulder ( CU-Boulder, UCB officially Colorado and CU colloquially is the Flagship University The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly known as Georgia Tech, or Tech, is a public, Coeducational Research university in This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of New College of Florida is a public Liberal arts college located in Sarasota Florida. The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related, land-grant, space grant public research University The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a non-sectarian coeducational independent state-related, "public" research University The State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY Binghamton or Binghamton University is one of the four university centers in New York State’s system of See Washington (disambiguation for other uses The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research University

The Public Ivies according to Greenes' Guides

A later book titled The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities (2001) by Howard and Matthew Greene of Greenes' Guides expanded upon the list in the first book (italicized below) to include 30 colleges and universities. [8]

Eastern

Western

Great Lakes & Midwest

Southern

Other Public Ivies

Other schools are sometimes referred to as Public Ivies as well, partly as a result of the acceptance of the term into popular culture and in other cases as a result of marketing efforts by the colleges and universities themselves. 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The State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY Binghamton or Binghamton University is one of the four university centers in New York State’s system of The University of Connecticut ( Connecticut or UConn) is the State of Connecticut 's Land-grant university. Storrs is a Census-designated place and part of the town of Mansfield, Connecticut located in eastern Tolland County. The University of Delaware ( UD) is the largest University in the U Newark is a City in New Castle County, Delaware, USA, 12 miles (19 km west-southwest of Wilmington. The University of Maryland College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland UMD, UMCP or simply Maryland) is a public research College Park is a city in Prince George's County Maryland, USA. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research The University of Virginia (also called UVa, UVA, Mr Jefferson's University, or The University) is a highly selective public research Charlottesville is an Independent city located within the confines of Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States The University of Arizona (also referred to as UA, U of A, or Arizona) is a Land-grant and space-grant public institution Tucson (ˈtuːsɒn is the seat of Pima County Arizona, United States, located 118 miles (188 km) southeast The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley The University of California Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, or just UCD, is a public coeducational university located in the city of Davis, The University of California Irvine is a public Coeducational Research university situated in Irvine, California. The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United The University of California San Diego (popularly known as UC San Diego or UCSD) is a public Research university in San Diego, California The University of California Santa Barbara ( UCSB) is a selective research-oriented public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County California The University of Colorado at Boulder ( CU-Boulder, UCB officially Colorado and CU colloquially is the Flagship University See Washington (disambiguation for other uses The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research University Indiana University is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. Bloomington is a city and the County seat of Monroe County in the south central region of the U Miami University (colloquially and incorrectly referred to as Miami of Ohio for clarification purposes is a Coeducational Public university founded in 1809 Oxford is a city in northwestern Butler County, Ohio, United States, in the southwestern portion of the state Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads Michigan State University ( MSU) is a co-educational public Research university in East Lansing, Michigan USA. East Lansing is a city in the US state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital The Ohio State University ( OSU) is a Coeducational public Research university in the state of Ohio. Columbus is the Capital and the largest city of the US state of Ohio. This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of Urbana (ɝˈbænə is the County seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, in the United States. The University of Iowa, is a major teaching service and Research university located on a campus in Iowa City Iowa, on the banks of the Iowa River Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is the principal city of the Iowa City Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area which The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities ( U of M or The U) is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. Saint Paul ( abbreviated St Paul) is the capital and second most populous city in the U Madison is the capital of the US state of Wisconsin and the County seat of Dane County. The University of Florida ( Florida or UF) is a public land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant major Research Gainesville is the largest City in and County seat of Alachua County, Florida, United States. The University of Georgia ( UGA) is a public research University located in Athens, Georgia, the oldest and largest of the Athens-Clarke County is a unified city-county in Georgia, US, in the northeastern part of the state at the intersection of U Though not included on the above lists, Murray State University includes the phrase "Kentucky's Public Ivy University" on its official logo. Murray State University, located in the town of Murray, Kentucky, is an approximately 10000-student four-year public university [9]

Institutional comparisons

Academic comparisons and rankings

Moll and Greenes' did not address the issue of prestige associated with the various schools reviewed. No direct comparison was made between a Public Ivy and any other school.

Many of the institutions categorized as "Public Ivies" have a large number of faculty, or alumni, who have been awarded prizes for their achievements in their respective field including the Nobel Prize (See Nobel Prize laureates by university affiliation), Fields Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize. The Nobel Prize (Nobelpriset (Nobelprisen is a Swedish prize established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Peace, Literature The following list provides information on nobel laureates and their affiliation to academic institutions. The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two three or four Mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism,

Several schools considered as "Public Ivies" are consistently ranked among the top schools in the multitude of surveys on American colleges and universities undertaken by U.S. News & World Report. USNews & World Report is an influential weekly American Newsmagazine published in Washington D For instance, U. S. News and World Report ranks the mechanical engineering program at University of California-Berkeley in the top three, and the University of Washington medical school has been consistently ranked as the top program for Primary Care and medicine,[10] and the law school of the University of Michigan is always ranked in the top ten. See Washington (disambiguation for other uses The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research University The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research


In general undergraduate rankings, U. S. News and World Report consistently ranks Ivy League institutions just above the Public Ivies. For example, the highest ranked Public Ivy, the University of California at Berkeley, ranked 21st in the United States, while the lowest ranked Ivy League institution, Brown University, ranked 14th[11].

Athletic comparisons

One sharp distinction between the Ivy League and most "Public Ivies" is their participation in intercollegiate athletics. The Ivy League is an Athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. One of the Ivy League's distinguishing characteristics is its prohibition on the awarding of athletic scholarships (athletes may only receive the same financial aid to which they would be entitled even if they did not play a sport). The Ivy League is an Athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. An athletic scholarship is a form of Scholarship to attend a College or University awarded to an individual based predominantly on his or her ability to Student financial aid refers to funding intended to help students pay education expenses including Tuition and fees Room and board, books and supplies etc In contrast, many of the "Public Ivies" participate in major athletic conferences such as the Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC, SEC, or Pac-10; award athletic scholarships; and rely on profits, if any, from large-scale football and men's basketball programs to support the athletic department as a whole. The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of seventeen Universities in the northeastern southeastern and midwestern United The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of twelve schools located mostly in the central United States. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. The Southeastern Conference (SEC is a College Athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which operates in the southeastern The Pacific-10 Conference ( Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m

See also

References and other resources

Citations

  1. ^ Richard Moll in his book Public Ivys: A Guide to America's best public undergraduate colleges and universities (1985)
  2. ^ a b "Comparing Black Enrollments at the Public Ivies" (Autumn 2005). The Canadian Ivy League, or "Canadian Ivies", is an informal term used to describe five or six selective Canadian universities that resemble the Ivy The Colonial Colleges are nine institutions of Higher education chartered in the American Colonies before the American Revolution (1775&ndash1783 Hidden Ivies Thirty Colleges of Excellence, is a college educational guide published in 2000 The Ivy League is an Athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The "Jesuit Ivy" is the title of a commencement speech delivered at and subsequently a Nickname given to Boston College in Chestnut Hill Little Ivies is a colloquialism referring to a group of small selective American colleges and universities however it does not denote any official organization "Southern Ivy" is a colloquialism that has been used in the U Flagship university refers to the leading comprehensive public research university or universities in a given U Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.  
  3. ^ a b Branch, Mark Alden (November 2000). "Deciphering the Admissions Map". Yale Alumni Magazine 109 (11). “¶16: But Richard Moll '59MDiv, a former Yale admissions officer who later oversaw admissions at Bowdoin and Vassar, thinks Yale still is not as visible as it should be. "Yale has not had the presence at grassroots admissions and counseling conferences that Harvard and Stanford have," says Moll, author of Playing the Selective College Admissions Game. ” 
  4. ^ Pierce, Kenneth M. (24 November 1980). Kenneth M Pierce is an American Journalist and contributor to Time. Events 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal "Dr. Fix-It Goes to Santa Cruz". Time. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and “Trouble in paradise as "the touchy-feely school" sings the blues -- Richard Moll, 45, a tweedy graduate of Yale's Divinity School, has become a Dr. Richard Moll (born January 13, 1943) is an American actor He is perhaps best known for playing Bull Shannon the tall shaven-headed Bailiff Yale Divinity School is a professional school at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, U Fix-It for colleges that complain of sagging enrollment. ” 
  5. ^ Paul Marthers, Dean of Admission. Admissions Messages vs. Admissions Realities. Office of Admissions. Reed College. Reed College is a private, independent Liberal arts college located in southeast Portland Oregon. Retrieved on 2008-02-09. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
  6. ^ In Moll's book, he refers to the entire UC system
  7. ^ Moll, Richard (1985). The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. The Public Ivys: A Guide to America's Best Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. Viking Penguin Inc. p. xxvi. 0-670-58205-0
  8. ^ Greenes' Guides: The Public Ivies (accessed on May 16, 2007); see also [1].
  9. ^ Logo Guidelines at Murray State University accessed 5 September 2006, stating: "Effective immediately, the following new 'Kentucky's Public Ivy University' logos replace the 'Excellence begins here' logo. "
  10. ^ U.S. News and World Report (2006 Pharmacy program rankings), accessed 21 October 2006.
  11. ^ U.S. News and World Report (2006 general rankings), accessed 31 August 2007.

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