The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois, founded in 1851.

The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York.

The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 1876.

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California.