Is MIT an Ivy League school?

Unlike Ivy League schools, MIT catered more to middle-class families, and depended more on tuition than on endowments or grants for its funding. The school was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934. read more

As you may know, there are eight Ivy League schools (in alphabetical order: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale). These were originally (and to this day) still a collegiate athletic conference. read more

There are older schools that are not in the Ivy League and a younger school (Cornell) that is. Ivy League explains pretty well that the affiliation among this group of schools (including Cornell) to play sports, began with rowing in the later 1800's and moved on to basketball before including football. read more

As you may know, there are eight Ivy League schools (in alphabetical order: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale). These were originally (and to this day) still a collegiate athletic conference. read more

For a time, there was something called the Ivy group, which consisted of the Ivy league colleges plus MIT, and they got together to standardise policies including financial aid procedures. However, in 1991, the US Justice department claimed that the Ivy group was an illegal cartel under the Sherman Antitrust Act, and it ceased to be. read more

While Stanford, Duke, and MIT are all clearly prestigious schools with high national rankings and low selectivity rates comparable to those of Ivy League schools, they are not Ivy League schools simply because they are not members of the Ivy League. read more