The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California.
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri.
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina.
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, founded in 1701.
The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson.
Cornell University is a private Ivy League and statutory land-grant research university, based in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White.
