Public ivy

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Public Ivy is a slang term for a government college in the United States with an excellent academic reputation. The term was first used by Richard Moll to denote a public university that "delivers an Ivy League university experience at the price of a public university." The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has also characterized these universities as follows: "... compete successfully with the Ivy League colleges in terms of both academic rigor and traction on superstar college professors and the best and brightest students of all races. ”Neither source suggests that the Public Ivies have the status of characteristic of the Ivy League colleges. However, the term is often used in guidebooks on choosing a university when it comes to describing the best public universities.

In his book (published in 1985), Moll listed the following universities (in alphabetical order):

A later publication of the well-known series Greene's Guides (2001) extended the term to other institutions:

Individual evidence

  1. The Public Ivys: America's Flagship Undergraduate Colleges (1985, ISBN 0670582050 )
  2. ^ Comparing Black Enrollments at the Public Ivies , JBHE article
  3. Moll spoke of the University of California system as a single university.
  4. Moll counts the University of Wisconsin system as a university.