I reordered the American Association of Universities by join date…as you can see there is a strong correllation to the USNWR rankings (more so the privates then publics but still there in both cases). They are broken out by Public and Private Universities (which I think is actually the best way to do it).
Public Universities
University of California, Berkeley (1900)
University of Michigan (1900)
The University of Wisconsin – Madison (1900)
University of Virginia (1904)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1908)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (1908)
University of Missouri, Columbia (1908)
Indiana University (1909)
The University of Iowa (1909)
The University of Kansas (1909)
The Ohio State University (1916)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1922)
The University of Texas at Austin (1929)
University of Washington (1950)
Iowa State University (1958)
The Pennsylvania State University (1958)
Purdue University (1958)
Michigan State University (1964)
University of Colorado, Boulder (1966)
University of Maryland at College Park (1969)
University of Oregon (1969)
University of Pittsburgh (1974)
University of California, Los Angeles (1974)
University of California, San Diego (1982)
The University of Arizona (1985)
University of Florida (1985)
Rutgers University – New Brunswick (1989)
University at Buffalo – The State University of New York (1989)
University of California, Santa Barbara (1995)
University of California, Davis (1996)
University of California, Irvine (1996)
Texas A&M University (2001)
Stony Brook University – The State University of New York (2001)
Georgia Institute of Technology (2010)
The University of Utah (2019)
University of California, Santa Cruz (2019)
Private Universities
Columbia University (1900)
Cornell University (1900)
Harvard University (1900)
The Johns Hopkins University (1900)
Princeton University (1900)
Stanford University (1900)
The University of Chicago (1900)
University of Pennsylvania (1900)
Yale University (1900)
Northwestern University (1917)
Washington University in St. Louis (1923)
Brown University (1933)
California Institute of Technology (1934)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1934)
Duke University (1938)
University of Rochester (1941)
New York University (1950)
Vanderbilt University (1950)
Tulane University (1958)
Case Western Reserve University (1969)
University of Southern California (1969)
Carnegie Mellon University (1982)
Rice University (1985)
Brandeis University (1985)
Emory University (1995)
Boston University (2012)
Dartmouth College (2019)
