U.S Flagship Universities

Here is our list – alphabetical by state – of the 50 U.S. public flagship universities:

  1. University of Alabama (Alabama)
  2. University of Alaska Fairbanks (Alaska)
  3. University of Arizona (Arizona)
  4. University of Arkansas (Arkansas)
  5. University of California, Berkeley (California)
  6. University of Colorado Boulder (Colorado)
  7. University of Connecticut (Connecticut)
  8. University of Delaware (Delaware)
  9. University of Florida (Florida)
  10. University of Georgia (Georgia)
  11. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (Hawaii)
  12. University of Idaho (Idaho)
  13. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Illinois)
  14. Indiana University Bloomington (Indiana)
  15. University of Iowa (Iowa)
  16. University of Kansas (Kansas)
  17. University of Kentucky (Kentucky)
  18. Louisiana State University (Louisiana)
  19. University of Maine (Maine)
  20. University of Maryland, College Park (Maryland)
  21. University of Massachusetts Amherst (Massachusetts)
  22. University of Michigan (Michigan)
  23. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minnesota)
  24. University of Mississippi (Mississippi)
  25. University of Missouri (Missouri)
  26. University of Montana (Montana)
  27. University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska)
  28. University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada)
  29. University of New Hampshire (New Hampshire)
  30. Rutgers University–New Brunswick (New Jersey)
  31. University of New Mexico (New Mexico)
  32. University at Buffalo (New York)
  33. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (North Carolina)
  34. University of North Dakota (North Dakota)
  35. Ohio State University (Ohio)
  36. University of Oklahoma (Oklahoma)
  37. University of Oregon (Oregon)
  38. Pennsylvania State University (Pennsylvania)
  39. University of Rhode Island (Rhode Island)
  40. University of South Carolina (South Carolina)
  41. University of South Dakota (South Dakota)
  42. University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Tennessee)
  43. University of Texas at Austin (Texas)
  44. University of Utah (Utah)
  45. University of Vermont (Vermont)
  46. University of Virginia (Virginia)
  47. University of Washington (Washington)
  48. West Virginia University (West Virginia)
  49. University of Wisconsin–Madison (Wisconsin)
  50. University of Wyoming (Wyoming)

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Ivy Plus Institutions

Among the analytical groupings we use to organize our study of Higher Education institutions in the United States are the “Ivy Plus” schools:

Amherst College

Barnard College
Bates College
Boston College
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University

Carleton College
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Claremont Colleges
Clark Atlanta University
Colby College
Colgate University
Colorado College
Connecticut College

Duke University
Dillard University
Dickinson College
Davidson College
Duke University
Denison University

Emory University

Fisk University
Fordham University
Franklin & Marshall College

Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgetown University
Grinnell College

Hampton University
Howard University
Hamilton College
Haverford College
College of the Holy Cross

Johns Hopkins University

Kenyon College

Lafayette College
Lehigh University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miami University (Ohio)
Middlebury College
Morehouse College
Mount Holyoke College
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
Macalester College

New College of Florida
Northwestern University
University of Notre Dame

Oberlin College

Pomona College

Radcliffe College
Reed College
Rice University
University of Rochester
University of Richmond
Rice University

Spelman College
Stanford University
University of Southern California
Skidmore College
Smith College
Swarthmore College
Southern Methodist University
Sewanee: The University of the South
Southern Methodist University

Tulane University
Tuskegee University
Trinity College
Tufts University
Trinity College
Tufts University
Tulane University

Union College

Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Villanova University

Washington and Lee University

Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Washington University in St. Louis
Wake Forest University
College of William & Mary

Our definition of “Ivy Plus” is intentially different from the list of instutions who are members of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. Our analytical grouping includes the Seven Sisters, the Black Ivy League, a subset of the so-called Public Ivies, and the Little Ivies.