This Florida school made Forbes' 'New Ivy League' colleges list
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A college in Florida has made Forbes' list of "New Ivies," – a new list of the top schools beyond those with the once-coveted distinction.
The University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville was the only college located in the Sunshine State to make the Public Ivies list. Forbes said schools like UF attract high-achievers and turn out hard-working, highly-regarded employees.
According to Forbes, UF has an undergrad enrollment of 32,951, an acceptance rate of 23%, with a tuition total of $28,658 during the 2023-24 school year.
Forbes declared that "something feels distinctly off on Ivy League campuses" and has for years, noting the traditional elite institutions are seeing their reputations increasingly tarnished by anti-Israel agitators.
After disqualifying the eight original Ivy League schools – Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell – along with "Ivy-plus" schools Stanford, MIT, Duke and the University of Chicago, Forbes said it used several data points like standardized test scores and surveys of hiring managers to determine the top public and private institutions in the country to replace the legacies.
Here are the "New Ivies," 10 public and 10 private listed in alphabetical order, according to Forbes.
Public Ivies:
Binghamton University
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Maryland - College Park
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
University of Texas - Austin
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Private Ivies:
Boston College
Carnegie Mellon University
Emory University
Georgetown University
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
Rice University
University of Notre Dame
University of Southern California
Vanderbilt University
Forbes noted that it excluded military academies in its analysis, and California colleges were excluded because they do not consider standardized test scores.
FOX Business contributed to this report.