PUBLIC IVY UNIVERSITIES

Public Ivy is a term coined by Richard Moll in his 1985 book Public Ivies: 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.”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.

The original eight Public Ivies

The original eight Public Ivies as they were listed by Moll in 1985:

• College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
• Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
• University of California (campuses as of 1985)
• University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Vermont (Burlington)
• University of Virginia (Charlottesville)

The Public Ivies according to Greene’s Guides

A later book titled The Public Ivies: America’s Flagship Public Universities (2001) by Howard and Matthew Greene of Greene’s Guidesexpanded upon the first list (italicized below) to include 30 colleges and universities. The table below is organized by region, and colleges are listed in alphabetical order

UC Berkeley Campus   Northeastern Pennsylvania State University (University Park) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) State University of New York at Binghamton University of Connecticut (Storrs) Mid-Atlantic University of Delaware (Newark) University of Maryland (College Park) College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) University of Virginia (Charlottesville) Southern University of Florida (Gainesville) University of Georgia (Athens) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Texas at Austin

Western University of Arizona (Tucson) University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Davis University of California, Irvine University of California, San Diego University of California, Santa Barbara University of Colorado at Boulder University of Washington (Seattle) Great Lakes & Midwest Indiana University (Bloomington) Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) Michigan State University (East Lansing) Ohio State University (Columbus) University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) University of Iowa (Iowa City) University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) University of Minnesota (Minneapolis–Saint Paul) University of Wisconsin (Madison)