USA : Ivy League schools

America's Ivy League schools are known for their exclusivity and their academic prestige. 

There are eight of them:

1. Brown
2. Yale
3. Harvard
4. University of Pennsylvania
5. Cornell
6. Columbia 
7. Princeton
8. Dartmouth. 

They are clustered in the Northeast in seven states and the majority of them were founded during the colonial period. The exception is Cornell, which was founded in 1865. Though "Ivy League" was a commonly used term prior to the establishment of the Ivy League NCAA Athletic Conference, it wasn't until 1954, with the establishment of the division, that this term became official.