Online Ivy League degree programs that require less than a week on campus

[sanantone]

Interesting list, but no one would ever consider composing such a list for any other athletics conference. I don’t understand the fascination with what, at the end of the day, is just an athletics grouping. Not the top 8 schools in the country, or anything, after all.

What other athletics conference has universities that are consistently ranked among the best in the world and are extremely difficult to get into? The name originated with the athletics conference a long time ago, but it is now a nickname for a group of very old colleges that have developed a good reputation. It's why Ivy is now used in nicknames for prestigious public universities (Public Ivy), prestigious private universities that weren't a part of the Ivy League (Ivy Plus), and other groupings of renowned universities. The same logic can be applied to why we call all plastic wrap Saran Wrap and how we say we're going to Xerox something. Those are brands, not an action or type of product, but those brand names have become synonymous with what they're famous for. I believe the term for this phenomenon is genericization. 

You can disagree with whether they deserve their reputation, but the fact is that many people want to get into the Ivy League schools and their non-Ivy counterparts for networking purposes and high salary potential.

https://www.consumerreports.org/consumer...icization/