<p>Barnard occupies a unique niche in American higher education. Added to its status as a highly selective liberal arts college for women, it is affiliated with Columbia, the Ivy League university known for contributions in fields from journalism to medicine.*** Barnard is located just across Broadway from Columbia's main campus and is one of four undergraduate schools within the Columbia University system (the others are Columbia College, the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies).*** In an arrangement unique in American higher education, Barnard has its own campus, faculty, administration, trustees, operating budget and endowment, while students earn the degree of the University. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.barnard.edu/about/btoday.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.barnard.edu/about/btoday.html</a></p>
<p>Columbia seems to say otherwise:
Undergraduate education at Columbia is offered through Columbia College, the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies. Undergraduate programs are offered by two affiliated institutions, Barnard College and Jewish Theological Seminary.</p>
<p>Unless you count the Jewish Theological Seminary as an Ivy League as well, I fail to see your point.</p>
<p>As a Columbia College student, I'll can tell you that around here, people do not refer to Barnard as Ivy-League. Barnard is/was one of the seven sisters, which are close to the ivy-leagues, but NOT ivy league. Don't advertise your mother's education like that becuause anyone who knows what they're talking about knows that Barnard is not really an Ivy, even if the degree has a Columbia seal on it. However, technically, since the ivy-league is just a sports league, and Barnard students compete on Columbia teams, one could say Barnard students are part of the "ivy-league." But in the most traditional sense, only Columbia College (and SEAS and GS to a lesser extent) carries the ivy label.</p>
<p>At the time, when the ivy league (which in reality is an athletic confrence) got its name all of the schools that are part of the ivy league were single sex all male schools</p>
<p>Not true at all, sybbie719. Cornell has been coeducational since its founding, and a few other Ivies were admitting women before 1900 (and I'm not just talking about sister colleges, yes I know what those are).</p>