The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California.

Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, Long Island, in the metropolitan area of New York.

Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists.

William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a private research university in Houston, Texas.

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

The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.