Public Ivy

Public Ivy er en gruppe offentlige universiteter i USA, hvor studieoplevelsen og den faglige kvalitet er på højde med Ivy League-universitetene, men hvor studiegebyret er betragteligt lavere. Normalt har disse universiteter betaling på 5-10.000 US dollar, mod et niveau på 30-35.000 dollar ved universiteterne, som tilhører Ivy league.

Begrebet "Public Ivy" blev opfundet af Richard Moll i bogen Public Ivys: A Guide to America's best public undergraduate colleges and universities (1985).

Begrebet "Public Ivy" defineres dels af Richard Moll i sin bog fra 1985 og dels i en senere gennemgang af amerikanske universiteter The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities (2001) af Howard og Matthew Green.

Richard Molls liste 
Moll regner normalt følgende otte 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 udgav også en liste over offentlige universiteter, der efter hans opfattelse repræsenterede udfordrerne med et akademisk og fagligt udbytteniveau næsten på højde med de otte bedste:

 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 Guide's liste 
Siden har Howard og Matthew Green foretaget et mere indgående og alment accepteret studie af ren akademisk kvalitet i bogen The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities (2001). De medtager i alt 30 uddannelsesinstitutioner (uddannelsesinstitutioner medtaget på Molls liste er angivet 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-Saint Paul)
 University of Wisconsin at (Madison)

Southern 
 University of Florida (Gainesville)
 University of Georgia (Athens)
 University of Texas at Austin

Galleri

Litteratur 
 Greene, Howard and Greene, Matthew. The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities (New York: HarperCollins, 2001). 
 Greene, Howard and Greene, Matthew. Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence (New York: HarperCollins, 2000). 
 Moll, Richard. The Public Ivies: A Guide to America's best public undergraduate colleges and universities (New York: Penguin (Viking), 1985).  or 
 Princeton Review. The Best 361 Colleges, 2007 Edition (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Review, 2006). 

 
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