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The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. It consists of sixty universities in the United States (both public and private) and two universities in Canada.

Contents 1 Organization 2 Membership 2.1 Admission 2.2 Public universities 2.3 Private universities 2.4 Canadian universities 2.5 Former members 3 Comparison with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities 4 External link

AAU was founded in 1900 by a group of fourteen Ph.D.-granting universities in the United States to strengthen and standardize American doctoral programs. Today, the primary purpose of the AAU is to provide a forum for the development and implementation of institutional and national policies, in order to promote strong programs in academic research and scholarship and undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. The AAU holds two annual meetings. The fall meeting is conducted on a member campus while the spring meeting is held in the headquarters city of Washington, D.C.

AAU membership is by invitation only, which requires an affirmative vote of three-fourths of current members. Invitations are considered every three years, and are only extended to those universities who are deemed by the AAU to have exceptional quality in their research and graduate education programs. Year of admission is shown in parentheses.

University of Arizona (1985) University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (1989) University of California, Berkeley (1900) University of California, Davis (1996) University of California, Irvine (1996) University of California, Los Angeles (1974) University of California, San Diego (1982) University of California, Santa Barbara (1995) University of Colorado at Boulder (1966) University of Florida (1985) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1908) Indiana University Bloomington (1909) University of Iowa (1909) Iowa State University (1958) University of Kansas (1909) University of Maryland, College Park (1969) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1900)

Michigan State University (1964) University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (1908) University of Missouri–Columbia (1908) University of Nebraska–Lincoln (1909) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1989) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1922) The Ohio State University (1916) University of Oregon (1969) The Pennsylvania State University (1958) University of Pittsburgh (1974) Purdue University (1958) State University of New York at Stony Brook (2001) University of Texas at Austin (1929) Texas A&M University (2001) University of Virginia (1904) University of Washington (1950) University of Wisconsin–Madison (1900)

Brandeis University (1985) Brown University (1933) California Institute of Technology (1934) Carnegie Mellon University (1982) Case Western Reserve University (1969) Columbia University (1900) Cornell University (1900) Duke University (1938) Emory University (1995) Harvard University (1900) Johns Hopkins University (1900) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1934) New York University (1950)

Northwestern University (1917) Princeton University (1900) Rice University (1985) Stanford University (1900) Syracuse University (1966) Tulane University (1958) University of Chicago (1900) University of Pennsylvania (1900) University of Rochester (1941) University of Southern California (1969) Vanderbilt University (1950) Washington University in St. Louis (1923) Yale University (1900)

• McGill University (1926)
• University of Toronto (1926)

• The Catholic University of America (1900-2002)

A founding member that departed due to "institutional emphases and energies" [1] that differed from the other AAU members.

• Clark University (1900-1999)

Another founding member that departed due to its change of focus from research to undergraduate education.

Unlike the AAU, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) is an organization whose membership is restricted to state-supported colleges and universities in the United States that offer degree programs leading to bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees. As of 2006, the AASCU represents more than four hundred public colleges, universities and systems of higher education throughout the United States of America and its territories. A few institutions are members of both the AAU and the AASCU.

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Canadian	McGill • Toronto