Public Ivy

Michigan Union beklædt med vedbend (engelsk: Ivy) ved University of Michigan.

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

• 
  Wilson Library ved University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  Hovedbygingen ved University of Texas at Austin
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  Billings Memorial Library ved University of Vermont
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  The Rotunda ved University of Virginia
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  Harrison Hall ved Miami University.
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  Sather Tower set fra Memorial Glade ved Berkeley campus på University of California.

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