Institutional Research
Washington State University
AAU Institutions
As noted in WSU’s 2014-2019 Strategic Plan and as directed by WSU’s Board of Regents, WSU strives for excellence as a research university and compares itself to members of the Association of American Universities (AAU), a non-profit association of 61 U.S. and two Canadian preeminent research universities. Four member institutions serve as WSU’s aspirational peers and each is a land-grant, research university with a program in veterinary medicine but with no medical school — Iowa State University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University, and Texas A&M University.
Name | Location | Web | IR Web | AAU Membership Year | Control | Leg Peer | GCS |
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Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | Home | IR Home | 1985 | Private | ||
Brown University | Providence, RI | Home | IR Home | 1933 | Private | ||
California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | Home | IR Home | 1934 | Private | ||
Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | Home | IR Home | 1982 | Private | ||
Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | Home | IR Home | 1969 | Private | ||
Columbia University | New York, NY | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Private | ||
Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Private | Yes | |
Duke University | Durham, NC | Home | IR Home | 1938 | Private | ||
Emory University | Atlanta, GA | Home | IR Home | 1995 | Private | ||
Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | Home | IR Home | 2010 | Public | ||
Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Private | ||
Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | Home | IR Home | 1909 | Public | ||
Iowa State University | Ames, IA | Home | IR Home | 1958 | Public | Yes | |
Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Private | ||
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Home | IR Home | 1934 | Private | ||
McGill University | Montreal | Home | IR Home | 1926 | Canadian | ||
Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | Home | IR Home | 1964 | Public | Yes | |
New York University | New York City, NY | Home | IR Home | 1950 | Private | ||
Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | Home | IR Home | 1917 | Private | ||
Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | Home | IR Home | 1958 | Public | ||
Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Private | ||
Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | Home | IR Home | 1958 | Public | Yes | |
Rice University | Houston, TX | Home | IR Home | 1985 | Private | ||
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | New Brunswick, NJ | Home | IR Home | 1989 | Public | Yes | |
Stanford University | Stanford, CA | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Private | ||
Stony Brook University - SUNY | Stony Brook, NY | Home | IR Home | 2001 | Public | ||
Texas A&M University | College Station, TX | Home | IR Home | 2001 | Public | Yes | |
The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | Home | IR Home | 1916 | Public | Yes | |
The University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | Home | IR Home | 1985 | Public | ||
The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Private | ||
The University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | Home | IR Home | 1909 | Public | ||
The University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS | Home | IR Home | 1909 | Public | ||
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | Home | IR Home | 1922 | Public | ||
The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | Home | IR Home | 1929 | Public | ||
The University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Public | Yes | |
Tulane University | New Orleans, LA | Home | IR Home | 1958 | Private | ||
University at Buffalo - SUNY | Buffalo, NY | Home | IR Home | 1989 | Public | ||
University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Public | ||
University of California, Davis | Davis, CA | Home | IR Home | 1996 | Public | Yes | Yes |
University of California, San Diego | San Diego, CA | Home | IR Home | 1982 | Public | ||
University of California, Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | Home | IR Home | 1995 | Public | ||
University of California, Irvine | Irvine, CA | Home | IR Home | 1996 | Public | ||
University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | Home | IR Home | 1974 | Public | ||
University of Colorado at Boulder | Boulder, CO | Home | IR Home | 1966 | Public | ||
University of Florida | Gainsville, FL | Home | IR Home | 1985 | Public | Yes | |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL | Home | IR Home | 1908 | Public | Yes | |
University of Maryland, College Park | College Park, MD | Home | IR Home | 1969 | Public | Yes | |
University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Public | ||
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | Twin Cities, MN | Home | IR Home | 1908 | Public | Yes | |
University of Missouri-Columbia | Columbia, MO | Home | IR Home | 1908 | Public | Yes | |
University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | Home | IR Home | 1969 | Public | ||
University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Private | ||
University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | Home | IR Home | 1974 | Public | ||
University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | Home | IR Home | 1941 | Private | ||
University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Home | IR Home | 1969 | Private | ||
University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | Home | IR Home | 1926 | Canadian | ||
University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | Home | IR Home | 1904 | Public | ||
University of Washington | Seattle, WA | Home | IR Home | 1950 | Public | ||
Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | Home | IR Home | 1950 | Private | ||
Washington University in St. Louis | St. Louis, MO | Home | IR Home | 1923 | Private | ||
Yale University | New Haven, CT | Home | IR Home | 1900 | Private |