美国常青藤大学分为私立常青藤和公立常青藤，具体划分请看下列详细信息：
私立常青藤大学(IVY LEAGUE)成员包括：哈佛，耶鲁，宾夕法尼亚，普林斯顿，哥伦比亚，布朗，达特茅斯和康奈尔。
根据The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities一书，以下美国公立大学被称为公立常青藤。
Eastern
Pennsylvania State University (University Park)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
State University of New York at Binghamton
University of Connecticut (Storrs)
University of Delaware (Newark)
University of Maryland (College Park)
Western
University of Arizona (Tucson)
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Washington (Seattle)
Great Lakes & Midwest
Indiana University (Bloomington)
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
Michigan State University (East Lansing)
Ohio State University (Columbus)
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
University of Iowa (Iowa City)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis-Saint Paul)
University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Southern
College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
University of Florida (Gainesville)
University of Georgia (Athens)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
