Public Ivy

Public Ivy er en gruppe offentlige universiteter i USA, hvor studieopplevelsen og den faglige kvalitet er på høyde med Ivy League-universitetene, men til betraktelig lavere betaling. Normalt har disse universitetene skolepenger på 5–10 000 US-dollar, mot et nivå på 30-35 000 dollar ved universiteter som tilhører Ivy league.

Begrepet «Public Ivy» ble først brukt av Richard Moll i boken Public Ivys: A Guide to America's best public undergraduate colleges and universities (1985).

Richard Molls liste

Moll regner normalt følgende åtte offentlige universiteter til Public Ivy-gruppen:

East coast College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Vermont (Burlington) University of Virginia (Charlottesville)

Inland & west coast Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) University of California system University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) University of Texas at Austin

Moll ga også en liste over offentlige universiteter som etter hans syn rerpesenterte utfordrere med akademisk og faglig utbyttenivå nesten på linje med de åtte fremste:

• University of Colorado at Boulder
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Iowa State University
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of South Florida – New College of Florida
• Pennsylvania State University at University Park
• University of Pittsburgh
• State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton
• University of Washington at Seattle
• University of Wisconsin at Madison

Green Guides liste

Siden har Howard og Matthew Green foretatt en mer inngående og allmenn akseptert studie av ren akademisk kvalitet, i boken The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities (2001). De tar med i alt om lag 30 læresteder, hvor læresteder som også fremkommer hos Moll er angitt i kursiv:

Eastern College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) Pennsylvania State University (State College) Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) State University of New York at Binghamton University of Connecticut (Storrs) University of Delaware (Newark) University of Maryland College Park University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Virginia (Charlottesville) Western University of Arizona (Tucson) University of California University of Colorado at Boulder University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)

Great Lakes & Midwest Indiana University at (Bloomington) Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) Michigan State University (East Lansing) Ohio State University (Columbus) University of Illinois at (Urbana-Champaign) University of Iowa (Iowa City) University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) University of Minnesota (Minneapolis-St. Paul) University of Wisconsin at (Madison) Southern University of Florida (Gainesville) University of Georgia (Athens) University of Texas at Austin

Litteratur

• Greene, Howard and Greene, Matthew. The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities (New York: HarperCollins, 2001). ISBN 0-06-093459-X
• Greene, Howard and Greene, Matthew. Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence (New York: HarperCollins, 2000). ISBN 0-06-095362-4
• Moll, Richard. The Public Ivies: A Guide to America's best public undergraduate colleges and universities (New York: Penguin (Viking), 1985). ISBN 0-14-009384-2 or ISBN 0-670-58205-0
• Princeton Review. The Best 361 Colleges, 2007 Edition (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Review, 2006). ISBN 0-375-76558-1