Ivy League

Members

All of the schools in the Ivy League are private and not currently associated with any religion.

Institution	Location	Athletic Nickname	Founding religious affiliation	Full-time enrollment	Founded
Brown University	Providence, Rhode Island	Bears	Baptist^[2]	7,744 [10]	1764 as College of Rhode Island
Columbia University	New York, New York	Lions	Anglican	19,694 [11]	1754 as King's College
Cornell University	Ithaca, New York	Big Red	Nonsectarian	20,400 [12]	1865
Dartmouth College	Hanover, New Hampshire	Big Green	Congregationalist	5,700 [13]	1769
Harvard University^[3]	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Crimson	Congregationalist; sided with the Unitarians in their 1825 split from Congregationalists	20,042 [14]	1636, but named Harvard College in 1638
Princeton University	Princeton, New Jersey	Tigers	Nonsectarian, but founded by Presbyterians^[4]	6,677 [15]	1746 as College of New Jersey
University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Quakers	Nonsectarian,^[5] but founded by Episcopalians^[6][7]	19,771 [16]	1740^[8]
Yale University	New Haven, Connecticut	Bulldogs	Congregationalist	11,483 [17]	1701 as Collegiate School

Note Founding dates and religious affiliations are those stated by the institution itself. Many of them had complex histories in their early years and the stories of their origins are subject to interpretation. See footnotes for details where appropriate. "Religious affiliation" refers to financial sponsorship, formal association with, and promotion by, a religious denomination.