Ivy League and Little Ivies
The Ivy League is comprised of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. Ivy League schools are viewed as some of the most prestigious universities in the world.
The Little Ivies are an unofficial group of small, academically competitive private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States with highly selective admissions comparable to the Ivy League.
The Seven Sisters refers to a group of highly selective liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women’s colleges, created to provide women with the educational equivalent to the (traditionally male) Ivy League colleges. Five of them are still women-only colleges.