The eight colleges of the Ivy League received more money ($4.31 billion) – on average – annually from the federal government than sixteen states

America’s eight Ivy League colleges are comprised of the following institutions: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.

Excluding Cornell University (founded 1865), all of the institutions were founded during the American colonial period. The undergraduate student body size ranges from approximately 4,200 at Dartmouth to over 14,300 at Cornell. The endowment size ranges from Brown’s $3.2 billion to Harvard’s $35.7 billion, the largest endowment of an academic institution in the world.

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