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
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Barnard College
Bates College
Boston College
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
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Carleton College
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Claremont Colleges
Clark Atlanta University
Colby College
Colgate University
Colorado College
Connecticut College
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Duke University
Dillard University
Dickinson College
Davidson College
Duke University
Denison University
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Emory University
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Fisk University
Fordham University
Franklin & Marshall College
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgetown University
Grinnell College
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Hampton University
Howard University
Hamilton College
Haverford College
College of the Holy Cross
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Johns Hopkins University
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Kenyon College
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Lafayette College
Lehigh University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Miami University (Ohio)
Middlebury College
Morehouse College
Mount Holyoke College
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
Macalester College
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New College of Florida
Northwestern University
University of Notre Dame
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Oberlin College
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Pomona College
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Radcliffe College
Reed College
Rice University
University of Rochester
University of Richmond
Rice University
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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
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Tulane University
Tuskegee University
Trinity College
Tufts University
Trinity College
Tufts University
Tulane University
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Union College
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Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Villanova University
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Washington and Lee University
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Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Washington University in St. Louis
Wake Forest University
College of William & Mary
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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.