Public Ivy League Schools

Public Ivy is a term first used by the writer William Faulkner to describe the University of Virginia, where he served as Writer-In-Residence from 1957 to 1962. It was used in the context of comparison to the eight prestigious Ivy League universities in the northeast. Since at least the 1980s, there has been more than one university referred to in this way.
The list of the original 8 public ivies consists of the following:

• College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
• Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
• University of California[6]
• University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Vermont (Burlington)
• University of Virginia (Charlottesville)

It has now been expanded to include 30 Universities and Colleges in the United States from 4 regions: Eastern, Western, Southern and the Great Lakes and Midwest and comprise of the following:

• College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
• Pennsylvania State University (State College)
• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
• State University of New York at Binghamton
• University of Connecticut
• University of Delaware (Newark)
• University of Maryland (College Park)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
• University of Arizona (Tucson)
• University of California (6 of 10 campuses):
• Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara
• University of Colorado at Boulder
• University of Washington (Seattle)
• Indiana University (Bloomington)
• Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
• Michigan State University (East Lansing)
• Ohio State University (Columbus)
• University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
• University of Iowa (Iowa City)
• University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
• University of Minnesota (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
• University of Wisconsin (Madison)
• University of Florida (Gainesville)
• University of Georgia (Athens)
• University of Texas at Austin