The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California.

Michigan State University (MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan.

Queen's University Canada

William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a private research university in Houston, Texas.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, stablished in 1861.

University at Buffalo—SUNY is a public institution that was founded in 1846.