Indiana University—Bloomington is a public institution that was founded in 1820.

Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio.

Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Founded in 1836

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.

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois, founded in 1851.

Washington University in St. Louis (WashU, or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus (Danforth) mostly split between St. Louis County and Clayton, Missouri