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 Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, stablished in 1861.

The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or, colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California, established in 1960.

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

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