I do think they have less of a monopoly on prestigious education than they used to. Not that they are not considered prestigious, but compared to 100 years ago,

I do think they have less of a monopoly on prestigious education than they used to. Not that they are not considered prestigious, but compared to 100 years ago, the Ivy League isn’t the only place that produces prestigious grads, especially in STEM (they do retain more importance in traditional “elite” occupations like politics and law). Some of that is just population growth, but I think some is genuinely filling niches that the Ivy League didn’t serve well, like engineering education. Places I think of as “new generation” prestigious universities include: Berkeley, UT-Austin, Georgia Tech, MIT, CMU, UIUC, Caltech, U. Michigan, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, UW-Madison, UCSD, etc. (Most of those places existed 100 years ago, but weren’t considered top-tier like they are now.) One thing that’s notable is that a number of these are public flagship institutions.