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IVY PLUS CONSORTIUM (IVY+): AMERICA’S FINEST PRIVATE RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES

The Ivy Plus (Ivy+) consortium is a formal grouping comprised of a core group of thirteen leading private research universities from across the United States. The consortium’s nexus is formed around the eight Ivy League universities, widely considered to be America’s elite universities collection. The five other universities that make up the Ivy Plus consortium are those equally prestigious, academically selective research universities that are regarded as the peer schools to the Ivy League.

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UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (URA)

In 1965 the Universities Research Association was founded tasked with the mission to bring together the research functions of leading universities in the United States and to advance the cause of scientific research in the national interest. Since then the Universities Research Association (URA) has grown to approximately 90 members, including a number of overseas

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BIG FOUR: BEFORE THE IVY LEAGUE THERE WERE FOUR COLLEGES THAT WERE CONSIDERED TO BE AMERICA’S ELITE CHOICES

The Big Four is an historic term that was used to refer to the four institutions of higher education that were considered to be the top tier in the United States in the pre-Civil War era. Its members being: Harvard University, Princeton University, Union College and Yale University.

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OLD FOUR: CANADA’S ELITE PUBLIC RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES

Canada’s education system is famous for being one of the best in the world, offering rigorous and vigorous schooling from early years through to degree level. Such degrees are conferred by a multitude of quality colleges and universities but the best known and, arguably, the most prestigious are the Old Four research universities that include: McGill University; Queen’s University; University of Toronto; and Western University.

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IVY LEAGUE: MUCH MORE THAN A SPORTS CONFERENCE, THESE ARE AMONGST THE WORLD’S BEST COLLEGES

The Ivy League is a sports conference for a select group of Universities and Colleges from the Northeastern United States that share a reputation for excellence and prestige. Despite the group’s founding as a sports conference, the constituent members work closely together on other aspects of university life and the conference’s name now transcends it’s sports conference heritage to the extent that “Ivy League” has become a byword for the elite tier of universities and colleges in the United States and, indeed, internationally.

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INNOVATION ALLIANCE: A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN DUBLIN’S BIG TWO UNIVERSITIES

The Innovation Alliance was a collective research initiative between Ireland’s two leading Universities: Trinity College Dublin (The University of Dublin’s only constituent college) and University College Dublin. The alliance built upon the extremely successful research and incubation hubs that each university had developed separately with the view to harnessing their combined expertise and, by working with the government and key strategic business partners, attracting significant investment into Ireland. In addition, the Innovation Alliance would allow both universities to collectively attract research funding and to share resources to significantly increase research output and to further academic research in Ireland.

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