<p>What are the 8 public ivies, and why are they called this?</p>
<p>8? i would say the only ones worthy are Cal, UCLA, UNCCH, UVA, and UMICH</p>
<p>I have never heard of a "public ivy" let alone 8 of them.</p>
<p>Cal, UCLA, Mich, UVa, Wisconsin, UNC, Illinois, Texas.</p>
<p>As of today the Elite 8 includes Illinois, Wisconsin, and MSU but that's "just" basketball.</p>
<p>Rutgers is a public ivy, interestingly!</p>
<p>The only school that I have ever heard refer to itself or referred to by others even as a public Ivy is Miami of Ohio.</p>
<p>Just look at the college rankings: </p>
<p>Public ivys include: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UVA, UMich, William & Mary, UNC Chapel Hill...</p>
<p>Sorry but Texas and UW are not public ivys...and Rutgers haha, that must be a joke</p>
<p>Rutgers brags about it on their website!</p>
<p>Icicle Rose, there is no such thing as a Public Ivy or a Little Ivy. There are public schools that are as (or almost as) good academically and reputationally, but they are unique in their own way. Schools like:</p>
<p>University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>Other excellent publics include:
College of William & Mary
Georgia Institute of Technology
Indiana University-Bloomington
University of California-San Diego
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Texas-Austin
University of Washington</p>
<p>Yeah U of I refers to itself as a public ivy. They are selective states schools if that doesn't sound like an oxymoron. They are public schools that often appear in national rankings right next to (and above) ivies like for instance in engineering U of I is kind of ranked 4th. That would put it above many ivies except for Stanford and MIT (Berkeley is the public above it)</p>
<p>Alexandre, according to the USNews rankings the top are all that you mentioned but UW...William & Mary is #6.</p>
<p>I agree and W&M is arguably THE best undergraduate public institution. Like I said, there is no such thing as a "public Ivy". I was merely grouping public schools according to overall quality and one can easily add and remove schools from each list.</p>
<p>"nothing is true but saying it makes it so" Hamlet (i may be slightly off on the exact wording)</p>
<p>Thus, Rutgers claim is true in a Shakespearian sense---that's a pretty high authority!</p>
<p>Rutgers: "The Public IVY"</p>
<p>maybe rutgers was referring to the fact that it had a chance to be an ivy league school. Can you imagine us referring to Rutgers like Princeton, Harvard?</p>
<p>There definitely is a group of schools named 'public ivies' by some publication, although I think the focus was on aesthetics more than anything else (not rankings). I know that U of Delaware and Miami U were both given this label, and it sounds like Rutgers too. I'm not sure about the others.</p>
<p>I think that is kind of pointless to name public ivies. It kind of says that public schools are worse than ivies. well while this might be true to some aspects, it degrades public schools. this might be off the topic but is the tuition for Cornell's agriculture department different than the tuition for let's say humanities? I heard that Cornell's agricultural department is subsidized by the Morill Land Grant Act. just curious.</p>
<p>UW is ranked as one of the top 8 publics by US News. When you consider the academic ranking of the faculty it is even higher. The only thing that brings it down a little is the slightly easier undergrad admissions. By any pure ranking of faculty quality and facilities it belongs in the top 5. It is in the top 3 of publics in research and faculty winners of major awards such as Guggenheims, NAS members, etc. By these measures it easily beats UNC, UVa and William and Mary and is right on par with UCLA and Michigan.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecenter.ufl.edu/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://thecenter.ufl.edu/index.html</a></p>
<p>ya cornell's agriculture school has a lower tuition for ny state residents, it is really cheap. bioengineering is under both engineering school(private) and Agricultural. a friend of mine applied to bioengineering in the agriculture school a few years ago and was admitted, the first two years, he paid agriculture tuition, which is significantly lower and the second two years he pays the engineering tuition. not many people know that u can do this.</p>
<p>Rutgers NEVER had a chance to join the Ivy League. Total urban legend.</p>