Are Ivy League schools private?

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising 8 well-known, private schools (Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, Princeton and University of Pennsylvania).Apr 14, 2016 read more

One is "The Hidden Ivies", which comprises prestigious, usually private schools such as Duke, Johns Hopkins, Chicago and Stanford, which are not part of the Ivy League but are considered equal to those schools academically. read more

Students from private schools do not have better odds of admission to Ivy League colleges than students from public schools (photo credit: John Phelan) There is a common belief out there that students hailing from private high schools have better odds of getting into Ivy League colleges. read more

The table below shows the fall 2016 undergraduate enrollment and acceptance rates as well as the 2017-2018 tuition and fees for the top 21 private National Universities. Ivy League schools and liberal arts colleges are excluded from this list. read more