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.
The schools are:
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island (location)
Bears (mascot)
In Deo Speramus (In God We Hope) [motto]
1764 (year founded)
Columbia University
New York City, New York (location)
Lions (mascot)
In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen (In Thy light shall we see the light) [moto]
1754 (year founded)
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York (location)
Big Red (mascot)
I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.
1865 (year founded)
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire (location)
Big Green (mascot)
Vox clamantis in deserto (A voice crying in the wilderness, The voice of one crying in the wilderness) [motto]
1769 (year founded)
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts (location)
Crimson (mascot)
Veritas (Truth) [motto]
1636 (year founded)
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey (location)
Tigers (mascot)
Dei sub numine viget (Under God's power she flourishes) [motto]
1746 (year founded)
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (location)
Quakers (mascot)
Leges sine moribus vanae (Laws without morals are useless) [motto]
1740 (year founded)
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut (location)
Bulldogs (mascot)
אורים ותומים Lux et veritas (Light and truth) [motto]
1701 (year founded)
Prior to the formation of the Ivy League in 1954, the Naval Academy, West Point, The College of William and Mary and Rutgers were also considered to be "Ivy League."