Yale University ranks #14 globally with a prestige score of 232, earned across 58 prestigious academic awards including 9 Nobel Prizes. Its strongest area is MacArthur Fellowship. Notable laureates include Grigory Margulis, Robert Shiller, James E. Rothman.
232
Prestige Score
58
Total Awards
9
Nobel Prizes
8
Decades Active
47
Laureates
29
Award Types
16
Countries
42
Publications
684
Citations
Awards by Prestige Tier
Tier 1 (10pts): Nobel-equivalent • Tier 2 (3pts): Major prestigious • Tier 3 (1pt): Field-leading
12
Tier 1 • Apex
= 120 pts
33
Tier 2 • Elite
= 99 pts
13
Tier 3 • Prestigious
= 13 pts
Tier 1Apex Awards (5 types, 12 total)
Tier 2Elite Awards (14 types, 33 total)
Wolf Prize in Physics: 1Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 3Wolf Prize in Medicine: 1Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics: 1Lasker Basic Medical Research: 1Shaw Prize in Life Science: 2Kavli Prize in Neuroscience: 1John Bates Clark Medal: 1MacArthur Fellowship: 12ACM Prize in Computing: 1Tyler Prize: 1Gairdner International Award: 6Priestley Medal: 1Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences: 1
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 (29 types)
MacArthur Fellowship
12(1986–2016)
Gairdner International Award
6(1967–2007)
Nobel Prize in Economics
4(1975–2018)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
3(1968–2009)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
3(1999–2013)
Fellow of the Royal Society
3(2018)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2(1974–2013)
Abel Prize
2(2020–2021)
Shaw Prize in Life Science
2(2011–2012)
Skytte Prize
2(1995–1996)
Fields Medal
1(1978)
Wolf Prize in Physics
1(1990–1993)
Wolf Prize in Medicine
1(2020)
Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
1(2008)
John Bates Clark Medal
1(1955)
Schock Prize in Logic
1(2015)
Lorentz Medal
1(1966)
ACM Prize in Computing
1(2010)
Dijkstra Prize
1(2001)
Gödel Prize
1(1994)
Knuth Prize
1(1998)
Tyler Prize
1(1974)
Fischer Black Prize
1(2023)
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
1(2018)
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