University of Toronto ranks #23 globally with a prestige score of 138, earned across 42 prestigious academic awards including 4 Nobel Prizes. Its strongest area is Gairdner International Award. Notable laureates include Geoffrey E. Hinton, John C. Polanyi, Frederick Banting.
138
Prestige Score
42
Total Awards
4
Nobel Prizes
8
Decades Active
$3.1B
Endowment (2021)
29
Laureates
24
Award Types
6
Countries
3
Publications
63
Citations
Awards by Prestige Tier
Tier 1 (10pts): Nobel-equivalent • Tier 2 (3pts): Major prestigious • Tier 3 (1pt): Field-leading
6
Tier 1 • Apex
= 60 pts
21
Tier 2 • Elite
= 63 pts
15
Tier 3 • Prestigious
= 15 pts
Tier 1Apex Awards (4 types, 6 total)
Tier 2Elite Awards (9 types, 21 total)
Tier 3Prestigious Awards (11 types, 15 total)
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 (24 types)
Gairdner International Award
10(1967–1991)
Fellow of the Royal Society
5(1935–2025)
Turing Award
2(1982–2018)
Wolf Prize in Chemistry
2(1982)
Japan Prize
2(1993)
Holberg Prize
2(2009–2010)
Nobel Prize in Physics
1(2024)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1(1986)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
1(2015)
Balzan Prize
1(2014)
Gruber Prize in Cosmology
1(2008)
Gödel Prize
1(1993)
Harvey Prize
1(2019)
King Faisal Prize
1(2023)
Princess of Asturias Award
1(2022)
AAAI Squirrel AI Award
1(2021)
Rumelhart Prize
1(2001)
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
1(2015)
MacArthur Fellowship
1(1995)
Notable Laureates
Ranked by award prestige (Nobel, Fields, Turing, Abel) and multiple honors
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