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The nine colonial colleges are listed below in order of foundation under the name by which they were known for the bulk of the Colonial Period . Also listed are the religious groups that were instrumental in each college's foundation and early history. In most cases the listed religious links, although often strong, were ''de facto'' rather than official. (At any rate, all have long since affirmed their Secularity .) In addition to the religious/secular boundary, the line between State and Private control was also far more blurred than today: as the distinction crystallized over time, some schools became fully independent and others part of their state's higher-education system. Seven of the nine colonial colleges are part of the , Yale , Princeton , Penn , Columbia , Brown , and Dartmouth . (The eighth member of the Ivy League , Cornell University , was founded in 1865 .) The two colonial colleges not in the Ivy League are both Public Universities —the College Of William & Mary (in the Colonial Athletic Association ) and Rutgers University , the state university of New Jersey (in the Big East Conference ). OTHER COLONIAL-ERA FOUNDATIONS Several other colleges and universities can be traced to colonial-era "academies" or "schools", but are not considered Colonial Colleges because they were not chartered as formal colleges with degree-granting powers until after the formation of the United States Of America in 1776. NOTES AND REFERENCES Notes:
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