What is each Big Ten university known for?

Corbett
Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:21:48 +0000

This said, I do not think the Big 10 was ever necessarily considered the clear second to the Ivy League where academics are concerned. The Pac 10 (with Cal, Stanford and UCLA) and the ACC (with Duke, UNC and UVa) certainly do not lag the Big 10.



In terms of academically strong NCAA conferences, how about the University Athletic Association ?

The UAA is now the only NCAA athletic conference with all members (8 of 8) in the Association of American Universities. The Big 10 can no longer make this claim, now that Nebraska is in the Big 10 but out of the AAU.

And according to the USN&WR National University rankings, the lowest-ranked UAA school is at #41 – higher than 10 of the 12 “Big 10” schools.

It’s true that the UAA is not a major conference when it comes to college athletics. But realistically, neither is the Ivy League.



Yes the Big Ten will be still made up of Iowa, Chicago, Northwestern and Wisconsin



The University of Chicago was a Big Ten school once, but it is a UAA school now. In fact, Chicago won the 2010 UAA football championship.