Association of American Universities

Association of American Universities (AAU) comprises the leading research and education universities. It consists of 61 universities in the United States (both public and private) and two universities in Canada.

University of California, Santa Barbara.

History of Association of American Universities

The AAU was founded in 1900 by a group of fourteen Ph.D.-granting universities in the United States to strengthen and standardize American doctoral programs. Today, the primary purpose of the organization is to provide a forum for the development and implementation of institutional and national policies, in order to promote strong programs in academic research and scholarship and undergraduate, graduate, and professional education.

This is a list of colleges and universities in Association of American Universities:

Public Universities (34)

University of Arizona (1985) University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (1989) University of California, Berkeley (1900) University of California, Davis (1996) University of California, Irvine (1996) University of California, Los Angeles (1974) University of California, San Diego (1982) University of California, Santa Barbara (1995) University of Colorado at Boulder (1966) University of Florida (1985) Georgia Institute of Technology (2010) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1908) Indiana University Bloomington (1909) University of Iowa (1909) Iowa State University of Science and Technology (1958) University of Kansas (1909) University of Maryland, College Park (1969)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1900) Michigan State University (1964) University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (1908) University of Missouri (1908) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1989) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1922) The Ohio State University (1916) University of Oregon (1969) The Pennsylvania State University (1958) University of Pittsburgh (1974) Purdue University (1958) Stony Brook University (2001) University of Texas at Austin (1929) Texas A&M University (2001) University of Virginia (1904) University of Washington (1950) University of Wisconsin–Madison (1900)

Private Universities (25)

Brandeis University (1985) Brown University (1933) California Institute of Technology (1934) Carnegie Mellon University (1982) Case Western Reserve University (1969) University of Chicago (1900) Columbia University (1900) Cornell University (1900) Duke University (1938) Emory University (1995) Harvard University (1900) Johns Hopkins University (1900) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1934)

New York University (1950) Northwestern University (1917) University of Pennsylvania (1900) Princeton University (1900) Rice University (1985) University of Rochester (1941) University of Southern California (1969) Stanford University (1900) Tulane University (1958) Vanderbilt University (1950) Washington University in St. Louis (1923) Yale University (1900)

Canadian Universities (2)

• McGill University (1926)
• University of Toronto (1926)