COFHE is an acronym for The Consortium on Financing Higher Education. It is a collection of thirty-one colleges and universities to cooperate and support each other on mostly financial issues, although the consortium often works together on academic issues. The term college (Latin collegium) is most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ...

Members

• Amherst College
• Barnard College
• Brown University
• Bryn Mawr College
• Carleton College
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Dartmouth College
• Duke University
• Georgetown University
• Harvard University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Mount Holyoke College
• Northwestern University
• Oberlin College
• Pomona College
• Princeton University
• Rice University
• Smith College
• Stanford University
• Swarthmore College
• Trinity College
• University of Chicago
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Rochester
• Washington University in St. Louis
• Wellesley College
• Wesleyan University
• Williams College
• Yale University

Amherst College is an independent liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. It is the third oldest college in Massachusetts. ... Barnard College, founded in 1889, is an independent college of liberal arts and sciences as well as a Womens college, located in the borough of Manhattan, in New York, New York, United States. ... Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Bryn Mawr is also the name of an official neighborhood of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Skinner Memorial Chapel, Carleton College Carleton College is an independent, non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. The school was founded on November 14, 1866, by the Minnesota Conference of Congregational Churches as Northfield College. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... This is about the university. ... Dartmouth College is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... Duke University is a private, coeducational, research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Officially founded as Duke University in 1924, Duke traces its institutional roots back to 1838. ... Georgetown University is a private university in the United States. ... Harvard University campus (old map) Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology. ... Mount Holyoke College, (founded as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary 8 November 1837), is a liberal arts womens college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. ... For other schools named Northwestern please see Northwestern College. ... Oberlin College is a small, selective liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, in the United States. ... The Smith Campus Center Fountain at Pomona College during the inauguration of David Oxtoby Pomona College is a small private residential liberal arts college in Claremont, California, located 47 miles (76 km) east of Los Angeles. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located on an extensive campus mostly in the Borough of Princeton and partly in the Princeton Township in New Jersey, United States. ... Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as Rice Institute, is one of the United Statess top teaching and research universities. ... Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is the largest womens college in the United States. ... Stanford redirects here. ... Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, with an enrollment of about 1450 students. ... A number of educational institutions carry the name Trinity College, some independent, others constituent colleges of a larger university. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. ... The University of Pennsylvania (Penn is the moniker used by the university itself [2]) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... The University of Rochester is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research institution located in Rochester, New York. ... Washington University in St. ... Wellesley College is a womens liberal arts college that opened in 1875, founded by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline Fowle Durant. ... Wesleyan University founded in 1831, is a private, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. ... Williams College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. ... Yale redirects here. ...

External Links

• MIT's COFHE website