Which universities produce the world's best researchers?
Academinence ranks 1,178 institutions by the prestigious awards their researchers have won — Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals, Turing Awards, and 125+ other honours. Open data, updated weekly.
Institution Rankings
Universities ranked by total prestigious awards received
| Rank | Institution | Country | Nobel | Prestige |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University United States | United States | 38 | 820 |
| 2 | MIT United States | United States | 26 | 765 |
| 3 | Stanford University United States | United States | 28 | 685 |
| 4 | University of Cambridge United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 36 | 669 |
| 5 | Princeton University United States | United States | 18 | 570 |
| 6 | University of California, Berkeley United States | United States | 20 | 540 |
| 7 | Max Planck Society Germany | Germany | 25 | 453 |
| 8 | University of Chicago United States | United States | 23 | 429 |
| 9 | California Institute of Technology United States | United States | 18 | 374 |
| 10 | Columbia University United States | United States | 19 | 338 |
| 11 | University of Oxford United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 12 | 304 |
| 12 | Rockefeller University United States | United States | 20 | 289 |
| 13 | Institute for Advanced Study United States | United States | 2 | 270 |
| 14 | Yale University United States | United States | 9 | 232 |
| 15 | New York University United States | United States | 4 | 184 |
| 16 | UCLA United States | United States | 6 | 179 |
| 17 | Cornell University United States | United States | 8 | 178 |
| 18 | UCSF United States | United States | 5 | 174 |
| 19 | University of Pennsylvania United States | United States | 5 | 169 |
| 20 | Johns Hopkins University United States | United States | 7 | 160 |
| 21 | Bell Labs United States | United States | 9 | 153 |
| 22 | Imperial College London United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 8 | 148 |
| 23 | University of Toronto Canada | Canada | 4 | 138 |
| 24 | IBM United States | United States | 5 | 132 |
| 25 | UC San Diego United States | United States | 3 | 131 |
Award Distribution
Top institutions by total awards
Recent Laureates
The latest recipients of prestigious awards
Awards We Track
From Nobel Prizes to Fields Medals, we track the most prestigious honors in academia
Apex Tier
- 297
- 251
- 296
- 110
- 66
- 87
- 32
- 53
- 163
- 129
Elite Tier
- 94
- 78
- 64
- 23
- 83
- 82
- 16
- 40
- 17
- 385
- 38
- 27
- 32
- 21
- 22
- 11
- 15
- 19
- 15
- 38
- 291
- 8
- 10
- 7
- 9
- 200
- 44
- 31
- 22
- 13
- 1157
- 41
- 11
- 20
- 14
- 17
- 22
- 89
- 15
- 19
- 11
- 13
- 18
- 13
- 16
- 14
- 12
- 20
- 12
- 10
- 12
- 14
- 15
Distinguished
- 30
- 18
- 16
- 17
- 16
- 13
- 4
- 5
- 14
- 12
- 16
- 15
- 11
- 11
- 12
- 14
- 11
- 10
- 18
- 12
- 12
- 15
- 15
- 14
- 11
- 15
- 12
- 11
- 5
- 14
- 14
- 16
- 12
- 11
- 15
- 14
- 10
- 19
- 10
- 12
- 10
- 13
- 6
- 12
- 15
- 9
- 13
- 10
- 13
- 12
- 6
- 1987
- 11
- 4
- 8
- 4
- 8
- 4
- 5
- 5
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