Which university has the most Nobel Prize winners?

Harvard University leads with the most Nobel Prize winners among its affiliated researchers, followed by University of Cambridge, Stanford University, and MIT.

What is the Academinence prestige score?

The Academinence prestige score weights awards by their significance: Apex tier awards (Nobel, Fields Medal, Turing) receive 10 points, Elite tier awards (Wolf, Lasker, Shaw) receive 3 points, and Prestigious tier awards receive 1 point.

How many prestigious academic awards does Academinence track?

Academinence tracks over 100 prestigious academic awards across sciences, mathematics, medicine, economics, and engineering, including Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals, Turing Awards, Wolf Prizes, Breakthrough Prizes, Lasker Awards, and many more.

Research Institutions

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Universities and organizations ranked by prestigious award achievements

1178

Institutions

Countries

4587

Total Awards

Showing 1178 institutions

Harvard University

United StatesSince 1910s

820

Prestige Score

47 Apex104 Elite38 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 27 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 15 Gairdner International Award: 11 John Bates Clark Medal: 10 Nobel Prize in Physics: 9

MIT

United StatesSince 1930s

765

Prestige Score

38 Apex112 Elite49 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 17 Nobel Prize in Economics: 10 John Bates Clark Medal: 10 Turing Award: 9 Nobel Prize in Physics: 8

Stanford University

United StatesSince 1950s

685

Prestige Score

41 Apex79 Elite38 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 18 Nobel Prize in Physics: 10 Turing Award: 10 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 8 Nobel Prize in Economics: 7

University of Cambridge

United KingdomSince 1780s

669

Prestige Score

43 Apex52 Elite83 Prestigious

Fellow of the Royal Society: 36 Copley Medal: 16 Nobel Prize in Physics: 13 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 12 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 7

Princeton University

United StatesSince 1940s

570

Prestige Score

31 Apex69 Elite53 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 13 Nobel Prize in Physics: 10 Fields Medal: 8 Nobel Prize in Economics: 6 National Medal of Science: 6

University of California, Berkeley

United StatesSince 1920s

540

Prestige Score

27 Apex83 Elite21 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 23 Nobel Prize in Physics: 7 Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 7 John Bates Clark Medal: 7 Priestley Medal: 7

Max Planck Society

GermanySince 1950s

453

Prestige Score

25 Apex57 Elite32 Prestigious

Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 10 Leibniz Prize: 10 Nobel Prize in Physics: 8 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 7 Balzan Prize: 6

University of Chicago

United StatesSince 1900s

429

Prestige Score

25 Apex54 Elite17 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 18 Nobel Prize in Economics: 15 Nobel Prize in Physics: 6 John Bates Clark Medal: 6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 4

California Institute of Technology

United StatesSince 1920s

374

Prestige Score

18 Apex58 Elite20 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 10 Nobel Prize in Physics: 8 National Medal of Science: 7 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 5 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 5

Columbia University

United StatesSince 1910s

338

Prestige Score

20 Apex40 Elite18 Prestigious

Gairdner International Award: 12 MacArthur Fellowship: 7 Nobel Prize in Physics: 6 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 5 Fellow of the Royal Society: 5

University of Oxford

United KingdomSince 1780s

304

Prestige Score

17 Apex26 Elite56 Prestigious

Fellow of the Royal Society: 33 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 6 Copley Medal: 6 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 4 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: 4

Rockefeller University

United StatesSince 1910s

289

Prestige Score

20 Apex29 Elite2 Prestigious

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 14 Gairdner International Award: 12 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 6 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences: 5 Lasker Basic Medical Research: 4

Institute for Advanced Study

United StatesSince 1940s

270

Prestige Score

15 Apex32 Elite24 Prestigious

Abel Prize: 9 Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 6 MacArthur Fellowship: 5 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: 4 Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics: 4

Yale University

United StatesSince 1950s

232

Prestige Score

12 Apex33 Elite13 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 12 Gairdner International Award: 6 Nobel Prize in Economics: 4 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 3 Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 3

New York University

United StatesSince 1940s

184

Prestige Score

9 Apex27 Elite13 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 14 Abel Prize: 4 Nobel Prize in Economics: 3 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience: 2 Balzan Prize: 2

UCLA

United StatesSince 1960s

179

Prestige Score

8 Apex27 Elite18 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 11 Fellow of the Royal Society: 4 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 3 Gairdner International Award: 3 Balzan Prize: 2

Cornell University

United StatesSince 1940s

178

Prestige Score

10 Apex24 Elite6 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 7 Nobel Prize in Physics: 4 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 3 Turing Award: 2 Wolf Prize in Physics: 2

UCSF

United StatesSince 1960s

174

Prestige Score

5 Apex40 Elite4 Prestigious

Gairdner International Award: 15 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 5 MacArthur Fellowship: 5 Shaw Prize in Life Science: 4 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience: 4

University of Pennsylvania

United StatesSince 1920s

169

Prestige Score

5 Apex35 Elite14 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 10 Gairdner International Award: 7 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences: 5 Fellow of the Royal Society: 3 Nobel Prize in Physics: 2

Johns Hopkins University

United StatesSince 1920s

160

Prestige Score

7 Apex28 Elite6 Prestigious

Gairdner International Award: 6 MacArthur Fellowship: 5 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 4 Gruber Prize in Cosmology: 3 Nobel Prize in Physics: 2

Bell Labs

United StatesSince 1930s

153

Prestige Score

12 Apex9 Elite6 Prestigious

Nobel Prize in Physics: 9 Turing Award: 3 National Medal of Science: 2 Oliver Buckley Prize: 2 Priestley Medal: 2

Imperial College London

United KingdomSince 1860s

148

Prestige Score

8 Apex15 Elite23 Prestigious

Fellow of the Royal Society: 15 Gairdner International Award: 4 Nobel Prize in Physics: 3 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 3 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 2

University of Toronto

CanadaSince 1920s

138

Prestige Score

6 Apex21 Elite15 Prestigious

Gairdner International Award: 10 Fellow of the Royal Society: 5 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 2 Turing Award: 2 Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 2

IBM

United StatesSince 1970s

132

Prestige Score

10 Apex10 Elite2 Prestigious

Nobel Prize in Physics: 5 Turing Award: 5 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience: 2 Wolf Prize in Physics: 1 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: 1

UC San Diego

United StatesSince 1960s

131

Prestige Score

5 Apex25 Elite6 Prestigious

Gairdner International Award: 7 Vetlesen Prize: 3 MacArthur Fellowship: 3 Fields Medal: 2 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences: 2

University of Washington

United StatesSince 1960s

129

Prestige Score

5 Apex26 Elite1 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 12 Gairdner International Award: 8 Nobel Prize in Physics: 2 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 2 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 1

Carnegie Mellon University

United StatesSince 1940s

119

Prestige Score

10 Apex4 Elite7 Prestigious

Turing Award: 7 Nobel Prize in Economics: 2 MacArthur Fellowship: 2 Draper Prize: 2 IJCAI Research Excellence Award: 2

Kyoto University

JapanSince 1940s

113

Prestige Score

6 Apex15 Elite8 Prestigious

Gairdner International Award: 4 Nobel Prize in Physics: 2 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 2 Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 2 Shaw Prize in Life Science: 2

University of Texas at Austin

United StatesSince 1980s

113

Prestige Score

6 Apex15 Elite8 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 4 Abel Prize: 3 Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 2 National Medal of Science: 2 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 1

NIH

United StatesSince 1960s

112

Prestige Score

6 Apex16 Elite4 Prestigious

Gairdner International Award: 11 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 5 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences: 2 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 1 Wolf Prize in Medicine: 1

IHÉS

FranceSince 1960s

112

Prestige Score

9 Apex7 Elite1 Prestigious

Fields Medal: 7 Abel Prize: 2 Balzan Prize: 2 Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 1 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: 1

Institut Pasteur

FranceSince 1890s

110

Prestige Score

10 Apex3 Elite1 Prestigious

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 8 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 2 Balzan Prize: 2 Leeuwenhoek Medal: 1 Gairdner International Award: 1

University College London

United KingdomSince 1890s

108

Prestige Score

7 Apex6 Elite20 Prestigious

Fellow of the Royal Society: 17 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 4 Gairdner International Award: 3 Darwin Medal: 2 Nobel Prize in Physics: 1

Sorbonne University

FranceSince 1870s

108

Prestige Score

8 Apex8 Elite4 Prestigious

Nobel Prize in Physics: 5 Balzan Prize: 3 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 2 Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 2 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 1

Collège de France

FranceSince 1760s

108

Prestige Score

8 Apex8 Elite4 Prestigious

Fields Medal: 3 Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 3 Nobel Prize in Physics: 2 Abel Prize: 2 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 1

University of Illinois

United StatesSince 1940s

103

Prestige Score

4 Apex19 Elite6 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 6 Priestley Medal: 4 Nobel Prize in Physics: 3 Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 3 Fellow of the Royal Society: 2

ETH Zurich

SwitzerlandSince 1930s

Prestige Score

7 Apex8 Elite4 Prestigious

Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 4 Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 4 Fields Medal: 2 Turing Award: 1 Wolf Prize in Physics: 1

Scripps Research

United StatesSince 1970s

Prestige Score

3 Apex20 Elite6 Prestigious

Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 7 Arthur C. Cope Award: 3 Balzan Prize: 3 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 2 Gairdner International Award: 2

University of Copenhagen

DenmarkSince 1920s

Prestige Score

7 Apex4 Elite5 Prestigious

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 3 Nobel Prize in Physics: 2 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 1 Turing Award: 1 Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 1

University of Edinburgh

United KingdomSince 1870s

Prestige Score

4 Apex9 Elite19 Prestigious

Fellow of the Royal Society: 8 Gairdner International Award: 4 Nobel Prize in Physics: 3 Shaw Prize in Life Science: 2 Darwin Medal: 2

University of Manchester

United KingdomSince 1900s

Prestige Score

6 Apex4 Elite10 Prestigious

Fellow of the Royal Society: 8 Nobel Prize in Physics: 3 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 2 Copley Medal: 2 Royal Medal: 2

University of Berlin

GermanySince 1890s

Prestige Score

7 Apex2 Elite2 Prestigious

Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 5 Nobel Prize in Physics: 2 Lasker Basic Medical Research: 1 Holberg Prize: 1 Hughes Medal: 1

UC Santa Barbara

United StatesSince 1980s

Prestige Score

5 Apex8 Elite2 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 4 Nobel Prize in Physics: 3 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 2 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: 2 Fellow of the Royal Society: 2

Karolinska Institute

SwedenSince 1950s

Prestige Score

5 Apex8 Elite1 Prestigious

Gairdner International Award: 6 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 5 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience: 1 Balzan Prize: 1 Fellow of the Royal Society: 1

University of Michigan

United StatesSince 1940s

Prestige Score

1 Apex20 Elite3 Prestigious

MacArthur Fellowship: 14 Gairdner International Award: 4 Nobel Prize in Physics: 1 John Bates Clark Medal: 1 Sakurai Prize: 1

University of Wisconsin-Madison

United StatesSince 1950s

Prestige Score

3 Apex14 Elite

MacArthur Fellowship: 6 Gairdner International Award: 4 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 3 Balzan Prize: 2 Lasker Basic Medical Research: 1

University of Colorado Boulder

United StatesSince 1980s

Prestige Score

4 Apex10 Elite

MacArthur Fellowship: 6 Nobel Prize in Physics: 3 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: 2 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 1 Wolf Prize in Physics: 1

Uppsala University

SwedenSince 1910s

Prestige Score

7 Apex

Nobel Prize in Physics: 2 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: 2 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: 2 Abel Prize: 1

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

UnknownSince 1980s

Prestige Score

23 Elite

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences: 10 Gairdner International Award: 8 MacArthur Fellowship: 5

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

IsraelSince 1980s

Prestige Score

3 Apex10 Elite8 Prestigious

Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 2 Gödel Prize: 2 MacArthur Fellowship: 2 Gairdner International Award: 2 Nobel Prize in Economics: 1