AAU Public Peer Institutions

Each institution is linked to its institutional research type website.

• University of Arizona
• Arizona State University * (added 2023)
• University of California, Berkeley *
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, Riverside (added 2023)
• University of California, San Diego
• University of California, Santa Barbara *
• University of California, Santa Cruz * (added 2019)
• University of Colorado Boulder *
• University of Florida
• Georgia Institute of Technology * (added 2010)
• University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign *
• Indiana University *
• University of Iowa 
• University of Kansas (reporting may/may not exclude medical campus in KC) 
• University of Maryland - College Park *
• University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• Michigan State University
• University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
• University of Missouri - Columbia
• State University of New York - Buffalo
• State University of New York - Stony Brook
• University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
• Ohio State University
• University of Oregon *
• Pennsylvania State University * 
• University of Pittsburgh 
• Purdue University *
• Rutgers, State University of New Jersey (sometimes excluded; unionized)
• University of South Florida (added 2023)
• University of Texas at Austin 
• Texas A&M University 
• University of Utah (added 2019)
• University of Virginia 
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin - Madison

*  Per IPEDS 2018-19 release data, institution does not have a medical school that grants a degree in medicine (M.D.) and/or osteopathic medicine (D.O.).

• Arizona State, University of California Riverside and University of South Florida were welcomed as AAU public peers in May 2023.
• Iowa State's AAU membership ended in April 2022.
• University of Utah and University of California, Santa Cruz were welcomed as AAU public peers in November 2019, and are included in comparisons beginning fall 2020.
• Georgia Tech was added to the AAU membership in April 2010 while University of Nebraska - Lincoln and Syracuse University's AAU membership ended April 2011.
• We usually exclude Toronto and McGill (in Canada) from the list of public AAUs; all US public AAU's are listed.  For peer comparisons we sometimes exclude Rutgers, which has unionized faculty; sometimes excluded schools using FASB rather than GASB financial reporting rules (Rutgers, Penn State, Pitt through at least FY08, maybe 09, but changed to GASB FY10); sometimes exclude all those with medical activity. 
• The AAU is a group of over 70 Research I universities; membership is by invitation only. Visit the AAU website for more information on the AAU, a list of all institutions (including privates) with their membership date, and a link to their homepage.
• Most public and private AAU members belong to the "AAU Data Exchange" (AAUDE), a group not officially part of the AAU.  Former AAU members may also belong to AAUDE.  AAUDE members exchange data on a number of topics.
• CDHE peer institutions for CU Boulder - all (then-)AAU US public without medical activity, excluding Rutgers, Georgia Tech, Penn State, and Purdue.