If you follow me on YouTube or read my blog, you know I am a fan of state flagships for many reasons. I wrote about this here and here.
Richard Moll, a Yale admissions representative, wrote a book called “The Public Ivys” in 1985. He listed the public colleges that resemble Ivy League schools. Here is the original list:
- College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
- Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
- University of California (applies to the campuses as of 1985: Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine, Davis, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Riverside)
- 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)
Since his list was published there has been great debate about which colleges are truly Public Ivy’s. Four decades later, there are articles every year that propose a new list of what constitutes the public schools that should be in this group.
I am not here to debate which colleges should be on the official list of public ivy schools, but I am excited to share that one of the schools that I have written about in my blog Co$t Concern$ has been recognized, Binghamton University! I am a big fan of the SUNY system as wrote in a recent piece, “Kudos to the SUNY System“, so I was thrilled to see this college receive such a tremendous accolade. Binghamton University has a great write up about this news on their website here. Congratulations Binghamton University!
PS-I sent my Co$t Concern$ piece to the head of admissions at Binghamton. He shared it with his team and they LOVED it 🙂