What are the 10 oldest private us colleges?

The ten oldest private colleges in the United States are Harvard University (1636), College of William & Mary (1693), Yale University (1701), Princeton University (1746), University of Pennsylvania (1740), Columbia University (1754), Brown University (1764), Dartmouth College (1769), Rutgers University (1766, originally Queen's College), and Emory University (1836, though it was established earlier as a Methodist college in 1836). These institutions have played significant roles in American higher education and history.