Chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, Princeton University was British North America's fourth college.
Brown moved to its current spot overlooking Providence on College Hill in 1770 and was renamed in 1804 in recognition of a $5,000 gift from Nicholas Brown.
Did you know Harvard University was named after John Harvard of Charlestown, who upon his death in 1638 left his library and half his estate to the institution?
Named for William Legge, the Second Earl of Dartmouth and founded in 1769, Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college.
Columbia University is the oldest institution of high learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.
Cornell has been described as the first truly American university because of its dedication to its land-grant mission of outreach and public service.
Five US Presidents, 45 Cabinet members, over 500 members of Congress, and countless other senior officials, judges, diplomats, and military officers can call themselves Yale alumni.
