Which universities produce the world's best researchers?
An index of 1,183 research institutions ranked by the prestigious awards their researchers have won — Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals, Turing Awards, and 125+ other honours. Updated weekly.
01 · Top-ranked institutions
02 · Featured laureates
Multi-award researchers
03 · Institution rankings
By prestige score
Rank
Institution
Country
Nobel
Fields
Turing
Tiers
Prestige
001
Harvard University
United States
38
5
3
47/104/39
821
002
MIT
United States
26
2
9
38/111/48
761
003
Stanford University
United States
28
3
10
41/79/37
684
004
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
36
4
2
43/52/79
665
005
Princeton University
United States
18
8
2
31/67/53
564
006
University of California, Berkeley
United States
20
3
3
26/83/22
531
007
Max Planck Society
Germany
25
0
0
25/54/32
444
008
University of Chicago
United States
23
2
0
25/57/16
437
009
California Institute of Technology
United States
18
0
0
18/59/20
377
010
Columbia University
United States
19
0
1
21/41/18
351
011
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
12
3
1
17/26/57
305
012
Rockefeller University
United States
20
0
0
20/31/2
295
013
Institute for Advanced Study
United States
2
3
1
13/32/24
250
014
Yale University
United States
9
1
0
12/32/12
228
015
New York University
United States
4
0
1
9/28/12
186
016
UCLA
United States
6
1
1
8/26/18
176
017
Cornell University
United States
8
0
2
10/23/6
175
018
University of Pennsylvania
United States
5
0
0
5/34/15
167
019
Johns Hopkins University
United States
7
0
0
7/29/6
163
020
UCSF
United States
5
0
0
5/36/4
162
021
Bell Labs
United States
9
0
3
12/8/6
150
022
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
8
0
0
8/15/23
148
023
University of Washington
United States
5
0
0
5/30/2
142
024
University of Toronto
Canada
4
0
2
6/21/15
138
025
UC San Diego
United States
3
2
0
5/27/6
137
04 · Award distribution
Top 8 · by total awards
05 · Recent laureates
Latest award recipients
06 · Awards tracked
125 honours · 3 tiers
Tier 1 · Apex
Tier 2 · Elite
- Wolf Prize in Physics94
- Wolf Prize in Chemistry78
- Wolf Prize in Mathematics64
- Wolf Prize in Medicine23
- Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics83
- Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences82
- Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics16
- Lasker Basic Medical Research40
- Lasker Clinical Medical Research17
- Gairdner International Award385
- Shaw Prize in Astronomy38
- Shaw Prize in Life Science27
- Shaw Prize in Mathematics32
- Kavli Prize in Astrophysics21
- Kavli Prize in Nanoscience22
- Kavli Prize in Neuroscience11
- Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology15
- Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences19
- Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy15
- Japan Prize38
- Copley Medal291
- Crafoord Prize in Mathematics8
- Crafoord Prize in Astronomy10
- Crafoord Prize in Geosciences7
- Crafoord Prize in Biosciences9
- Balzan Prize200
- John Bates Clark Medal44
- Gruber Prize in Cosmology31
- Gruber Prize in Genetics22
- Gruber Prize in Neuroscience13
- MacArthur Fellowship1157
- National Medal of Science41
- Nemmers Prize in Economics11
- Holberg Prize20
- Templeton Prize14
- Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering17
- Draper Prize22
- Priestley Medal89
- ACM Prize in Computing15
- Enrico Fermi Award19
- Wolf Prize in Agriculture
- Dan David Prize11
- Millennium Technology Prize13
- National Medal of Technology18
- Welch Award in Chemistry13
- Tyler Prize16
- Blue Planet Prize14
- Vetlesen Prize12
- Leibniz Prize20
- Ostrowski Prize12
- Massry Prize10
- Pulitzer Prize12
- Booker Prize
- Marconi Prize14
- King Faisal Prize15
Tier 3 · Distinguished
- Dirac Medal30
- Max Planck Medal18
- Royal Medal16
- Horwitz Prize17
- IEEE Medal of Honor16
- Nemmers Prize in Mathematics13
- Chern Medal4
- Gauss Prize5
- Lorentz Medal14
- Boltzmann Medal12
- RAS Gold Medal16
- Bruce Medal15
- Henry Draper Medal11
- Eddington Medal11
- Hughes Medal12
- Davy Medal14
- Darwin Medal11
- Sylvester Medal10
- Harvey Prize18
- Leeuwenhoek Medal12
- Franklin Medal12
- Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics15
- Oliver Buckley Prize15
- Sakurai Prize14
- Lilienfeld Prize11
- Heineken Prize15
- Spinoza Prize12
- Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science11
- Tang Prize in Mathematics5
- Knuth Prize14
- Gödel Prize14
- Dijkstra Prize16
- IJCAI Research Excellence Award12
- Rumelhart Prize11
- IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award15
- Steele Prize14
- Salem Prize10
- SASTRA Ramanujan Prize19
- Fermat Prize10
- Arthur C. Cope Award12
- Tetrahedron Prize10
- Leontief Prize13
- Fischer Black Prize6
- Skytte Prize12
- Princess of Asturias Award15
- TWAS Prize9
- Volvo Environment Prize13
- Presidential Medal of Freedom10
- Schock Prize in Logic13
- Schock Prize in Mathematics12
- BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge (Biomedicine)6
- Fellow of the Royal Society1988
- BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge (Basic Sciences)11
- AAAI Squirrel AI Award4
- Global Economy Prize8
- BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge (Economics)4
- Kiel Excellence Award8
- BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge (Ecology)4
- BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge (Climate Change)5
- ACM SIGAI Research Award5
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