The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, or colloquially the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois.

The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York.

University at Buffalo—SUNY is a public institution that was founded in 1846.

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor.

Michigan State University (MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan.

Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, Long Island, in the metropolitan area of New York.