See attached list and year accepted as a member.
The inaugural members started this organization in 1900 - with the usual suspects (3 Public & 9 Private - 6 Ivies). Below are the Universities that became members prior to WWI 10 Public (6 Big 10) & 10 Private (added Northwestern). There are now 71 members in the AAU.
Public:
1900
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Michigan
- The University of Wisconsin – Madison
1904 - The next member added
- University of Virginia
1908:
- University of Minnesota
- University of Missouri
1909:
- Indiana University
- University of Iowa
- University of Kansas
1916:
- The Ohio State University
Private:
1900:
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Harvard University
- The Johns Hopkins University
- Princeton University
- Stanford University
- The University of Chicago
- University of Pennsylvania
- Yale University
1917:
- Northwestern University
P.S. Edit was to add AAU member list