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ND is the only Catholic University that's an AAU member by Hickster

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