The Ivy League is a sports conference for a select group of Universities and Colleges from the Northeastern United States that share a reputation for excellence and prestige. Despite the group's founding as a sports conference, the constituent members work closely together on other aspects of university life and the conference's name now transcends it's sports conference heritage to the extent that "Ivy League" has become a byword for the elite tier of universities and colleges in the United States and, indeed, internationally.
The members of the Ivy League are as follows:
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth University
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
