Reading up on universities and their categorizations, it struck me - where are most of the Ivy League colleges clustered? Which state takes the win?
The state with the most Ivy League colleges is New York. There are two Ivy League institutions in New York: Columbia University, located in New York City, and Cornell University, located in Ithaca. No other state has more than one Ivy League institution.
It's worth mentioning that all eight Ivy League institutions - Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale - are in the northeastern region of the United States, spread among seven different states: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. The geographical proximity of these schools has historically made intercollegiate competition logistics easier, which led to the formation of the Ivy League athletic conference in the first place. Even today, the close distances foster an environment of collaboration and rivalry.
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