University of Oxford ranks #11 globally with a prestige score of 304, earned across 99 prestigious academic awards including 12 Nobel Prizes. Its strongest area is Fellow of the Royal Society. Notable laureates include Michael Atiyah, Roger Penrose, John B. Goodenough.
304
Prestige Score
99
Total Awards
12
Nobel Prizes
12
Decades Active
107
Laureates
34
Award Types
9
Countries
2
Publications
4
Citations
Awards by Prestige Tier
Tier 1 (10pts): Nobel-equivalent • Tier 2 (3pts): Major prestigious • Tier 3 (1pt): Field-leading
17
Tier 1 • Apex
= 170 pts
26
Tier 2 • Elite
= 78 pts
56
Tier 3 • Prestigious
= 56 pts
Tier 1Apex Awards (7 types, 17 total)
Tier 2Elite Awards (11 types, 26 total)
Tier 3Prestigious Awards (16 types, 56 total)
Crafoord Prize in Biosciences: 1Schock Prize in Logic: 3Royal Medal: 1Davy Medal: 3Darwin Medal: 1Sylvester Medal: 3Boltzmann Medal: 1RAS Gold Medal: 2Eddington Medal: 2Horwitz Prize: 1Tang Prize in Mathematics: 1King Faisal Prize: 1Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics: 1ACM SIGAI Research Award: 1SASTRA Ramanujan Prize: 1+1 more
Data completeness: Nobel Prizes complete 1901–2024 · Fields Medal complete 1936–2024 · Turing Award complete 1966–2024 · Abel Prize complete 2003–2024
Awards by Category
Awards by Decade
Prestige Trend Over Time
Weighted prestige score by decade (Tier 1 = 10pts, Tier 2 = 3pts, Tier 3 = 1pt)
Peer Comparison
All Awards (34 types)
Fellow of the Royal Society
33(2020–2025)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
6(1932–2019)
Copley Medal
6(1962–2021)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
4(1921–2019)
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
4(2018–2024)
Balzan Prize
4(1988–2012)
Fields Medal
3(1966–2022)
Schock Prize in Logic
3(1995–2022)
Davy Medal
3(1957–2020)
Sylvester Medal
3(1940–2021)
Gairdner International Award
3(1960–2014)
Wolf Prize in Physics
2(1983–1988)
Shaw Prize in Mathematics
2(2005–2022)
RAS Gold Medal
2(1975–2021)
Eddington Medal
2(1975–2013)
Nobel Prize in Physics
1(2020)
Nobel Prize in Economics
1(1972)
Turing Award
1(1980)
Abel Prize
1(2004–2016)
Shaw Prize in Astronomy
1(2013)
Gruber Prize in Genetics
1(2011)
Royal Medal
1(1956)
Darwin Medal
1(1988)
Boltzmann Medal
1(2010)
Horwitz Prize
1(2016)
Tang Prize in Mathematics
1(2016)
Tyler Prize
1(1976)
King Faisal Prize
1(1987–1998)
Millennium Technology Prize
1(2022)
ACM SIGAI Research Award
1(2010)
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
1(2014)
Wolf Prize in Chemistry
1(1987)
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