Ivy League Schools & Russell Group Universities

A. The 8 Schools of Ivy League

The Ivy League universities in the United States started as an alliance of eight highly selective private research universities in the Northeast.

Ivy League universities were initially a collection of competing for athletic colleges, but the name is now used to refer to the eight academically exceptional schools.

Let us have a look at the 8 Ivy League schools:

1. Harvard University

 

There are 15 schools under Harvard University

Founded

1636 (386 years ago)

Location

Massachusetts, United States

Acceptance Ratio

5%

Popular Courses

Medicine, Engineering, Business,


Arts, Sciences

Notable Alumni

Ratan Tata, Anand Mahindra,


Rahul Bajaj

2. Yale University

 

There are 14 schools under Yale University

Founded

1701 (321 years ago)

Location

Connecticut, United States

Acceptance Ratio

7%

Popular Courses

Drama and Music Programmes

Notable Alumni

Indra Nooyi, Urjit Patel, Isha Ambani

3. Princeton University

 

There are 5 schools under Princeton University

Founded

1746 (276 years ago)

Location

New Jersey, United States

Acceptance Ratio

6%

Popular Courses

Public Policy and International


Relations

Notable Alumni

Nambi Narayanan, Sridhar Vembu,


Thomas Kurian

4. Columbia University

 

There are 20 schools under Columbia University

Founded

1754 (268 years ago)

Location

New York, United States

Acceptance Ratio

7%

Popular Courses

Engineering, Arts, Sciences

Notable Alumni

B R Ambedkar, Bedabrata Pyne,


Vikram Shankar Pandit

5. University of Pennsylvania

 

There are 12 schools under the University of Pennsylvania

Founded

1740 (282 years ago)

Location

Pennsylvania, United States

Acceptance Ratio

9%

Popular Courses

Business

Notable Alumni

Sundar Pichai, Anil Ambani,


Sachin Pilot

6. Dartmouth College

 

There are 5 schools under Dartmouth College

Founded

1769 (253 years ago)

Location

New Hampshire, United States

Acceptance Ratio

9%

Popular Courses

Engineering, Arts, Sciences

Notable Alumni

Naval Ravikant, Dinesh D'Souza,


Harmeet Kaur Dhillon

7. Brown University

 

There are 6 schools under Brown University

Founded

1764 (258 years ago)

Location

Rhode Island, United States

Acceptance Ratio

8%

Popular Courses

STEM

Notable Alumni

Akash Ambani, Bhupendranath Datta,


Tanya Dubash

8. Cornell University

 

There are 8 schools under Cornell University

Founded

1865 (157 years ago)

Location
New York, United States

Acceptance Ratio

11%

Popular Courses

Hotel Management, Engineering,


Architecture

Notable Alumni

Ratan Tata, Sudha Murty, Salil Parekh

Notably, some of the other famed universities in the United States, like Stanford University, MIT, Duke University, etc., are left out of the Ivy League list. 

Why do you think they were left out? 

Simply because they didn't excel at sports when the Ivy League was created!

B. The 24 Universities of Russell Group

India is witnessing a large-scale migration of its students to Europe for their higher studies, with the United Kingdom taking the lion’s share of those students.

According to the most recent statistics, more than 98,000 Indian students came to the UK to study last year, up 90% from the previous year.

Indeed the UK offers a dream destination for most Indians. But the shrewd Indian students don’t just go to any university in the UK - they scour for their desired courses within a group known as the Russell Group of Universities.

So, What is this Russell Group of institutions?

Well, let’s find out.

Russell Group – a collection of 24 universities – is a term for a group of universities with a shared focus on research and a reputation for academic achievement. It is dubbed the Ivy League of the UK.

The 24 universities in the group include:

1. University of Birmingham
www.birmingham.ac.uk

2. University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk

3. University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk

4. Cardiff University
www.cardiff.ac.uk

5. Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk

6. University of Edinburgh
www.ed.ac.uk

7. University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk

8. University of Glasgow
www.gla.ac.uk

9. Imperial College London
www.imperial.ac.uk

10. King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk

11. University of Leeds
www.leeds.ac.uk

12. University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk

13. London School of Economics
www.lse.ac.uk

14. University of Manchester
www.manchester.ac.uk

15. Newcastle University
www.ncl.ac.uk

16. University of Nottingham
www.nottingham.ac.uk

17. University of Oxford
www.ox.ac.uk

18. Queen Mary, University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk

19. Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk

20. University of Sheffield
www.sheffield.ac.uk

21. University of Southampton
www.southampton.ac.uk

22. University College London
www.ucl.ac.uk

23. University of Warwick
www.warwick.ac.uk

24. University of York
www.york.ac.uk

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