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 oppfunnet 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

 
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