The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, or colloquially the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois.

The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California.

Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private Ivy League research university in New York City, founded in 1754.

The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 1876.

University at Buffalo—SUNY is a public institution that was founded in 1846.

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, established in 1882.