Editing Ivy League (section)

== Overview ==
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Ivy League schools are some of the most prestigious universities in the world.<ref name="World's Best Colleges" /> All eight universities place in the top 15 of the 2025 [[U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking|''U.S. News & World Report'' National Universities ranking]]<!-- It is necessary to specify the category here, since liberal arts colleges are separate. -->.<ref name="U.S. News & World Report" /> ''U.S. News'' has named a member of the Ivy League as the best national university{{efn|Liberal arts colleges and regional institutions are ranked separately.}} every year since 2001: {{as of|2020|lc=y}}, Princeton eleven times, Harvard twice, and the two schools tied for first five times.<ref name="US News history" /> In the 2024–2025 [[U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking|''U.S. News & World Report'' Best Global University Ranking]], six Ivies rank in the top 20: Harvard (#1), Columbia (#9), Yale (#10), Penn (#14), Princeton (#18), and Cornell (#19) —ranks that ''U.S. News'' says are based on "indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global and regional reputations."<ref name="U.S. News-2022-2023" /> All eight Ivy League schools are members of the [[Association of American Universities]], the most prestigious alliance of American research universities.<ref name="Association of American Universities" />

Undergraduate enrollments range from about 4,500 to about 15,000,<ref name="Dartmouth and Cornell respectively" /> larger than most [[liberal arts college]]s and smaller than most [[state university system]]s. Total enrollment, which includes graduate students, ranges from approximately 6,600 at Dartmouth to over 20,000 at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and Penn. Ivy League [[financial endowment]]s range from Brown's $6.9&nbsp;billion<ref name="The Boston Globe" /> to Harvard's $53.2&nbsp;billion,<ref name="The Harvard Crimson-2" /> the [[Lists of institutions of higher education by endowment|largest financial endowment]] of any academic institution in the world.<ref name="10 Private Universities With Largest Financial Endowments">{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2011/06/28/10-universities-with-largest-financial-endowments|title=10 Private Universities With Largest Financial Endowments |access-date=May 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801124053/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2011/06/28/10-universities-with-largest-financial-endowments |archive-date=August 1, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Ivy League is similar to other groups of universities in other countries, such as [[Oxbridge]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=What's Better for Me: Ivy League or Oxbridge? |url=http://www.ueseducation.com/blog/ivy-league-oxbridge |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=UES Education |language=en |archive-date=December 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231229173035/https://www.ueseducation.com/blog/ivy-league-oxbridge |url-status=live }}</ref> in [[England]], the [[C9 League]]<ref name="en.people.cn">{{cite web|url=http://en.people.cn/203691/7822275.html|title=China's Ivy League：C9 League|website=en.people.cn|access-date=November 8, 2018|archive-date=January 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103063135/http://en.people.cn/203691/7822275.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> in [[China]], the [[École_normale_supérieure|Écoles Normales Supérieures]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4190728/Frances-educational-elite.html|title=France's educational elite|date=17 November 2003|access-date=5 February 2019|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London}}</ref> in [[France]], the [[SKY (universities)|SKY Universities]] in South Korea, and the [[Imperial Universities]]<ref name="Prestigious-2017">{{cite web|url=https://www.studyinternational.com/news/prestigious-imperial-universities-best-japan-rankings/|title=Prestigious 'Imperial Universities' the best in Japan – THE rankings – Study International|date=March 31, 2017|access-date=November 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715045309/https://www.studyinternational.com/news/prestigious-imperial-universities-best-japan-rankings/|archive-date=July 15, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> in [[Japan]].