Association of American Universities

Association of American Universities

The Association of American Universities (AAU) is a group of special schools that do lots of research. It started in 1900 to help schools work together. Today, it has 69 universities in the United States, and 2 universities in Canada.

Only very good schools can join the AAU. They must be invited, and then most of the schools already in the group must agree. This makes sure that only the best research schools are part of the AAU.

The AAU helps make sure that research and education stay strong. It has an office in Washington, D.C., where it works on research funding and policies that affect universities.

Many famous scientists and Nobel Prize winners have been connected to AAU universities.

Universities in the AAU

Here are some of the universities in the AAU:

• Arizona State University
• Boston University
• Brown University
• California Institute of Technology
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Dartmouth College
• Duke University
• Emory University
• George Washington University
• Georgia Tech
• Harvard University
• Indiana University Bloomington
• Johns Hopkins University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• McGill University
• Michigan State University
• New York University
• Northwestern University
• Ohio State University
• Pennsylvania State University
• Princeton University
• Purdue University
• Rice University
• Rutgers University–New Brunswick
• Stanford University
• Stony Brook University
• Texas A&M University
• Tufts University
• Tulane University
• University at Buffalo
• University of Arizona
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, Riverside
• University of California, San Diego
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• University of Chicago
• University of Colorado Boulder
• University of Florida
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• University of Iowa
• University of Kansas
• University of Maryland, College Park
• University of Miami
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• University of Missouri
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of Notre Dame
• University of Oregon
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Rochester
• University of South Florida
• University of Southern California
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Toronto
• University of Utah
• University of Virginia
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Vanderbilt University
• Washington University in St. Louis
• Yale University

These schools work together to make sure research and education are the best they can be.