Ivy League originally refers to the sports league composed of eight universities in the northeast of the United States, and later refers to the university league composed of seven universities and a college, and still uses the name of "Ivy League". Ivy League is all the first-class universities in the United States, and it is also the university alliance that produces the most Rhodes scholars in the United States. Seven of the eight schools were established during the British colonial period. These eight institutions include Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Brown University and Cornell University. "

This statement comes from the 1950s. The above universities had social and sports competitions as early as the end of 19 th century, and 1956 brewed the idea of an alliance school. When making rules for sports competitions, schools should further formulate rules for Ivy League schools, elect principals, sports directors and some administrative directors of alliance schools, and hold regular meetings to discuss enrollment, finance, funding, administration and other related issues among schools. The eight Ivy League universities in America are all private universities. Like public universities, they receive federal funding and private donations for academic research.

Other famous national top university alliances in the world include China Nine University Alliance, British Russell University Group, Japanese Academic Research Forum, French Paris High-tech Engineer School Group, Australian Eight University Alliance, German U 15 University Alliance and Canadian U 15 Research University Alliance.