Revised Top 30 U.S. Colleges by Total Nobel Prizes (Excluding Peace), Turing Awards, Fields Medals, Abel Prizes, and Wolf Prizes in Mathematics
1. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~140-150 (Alumni: ~70; Faculty: ~70-80)
• Turing Awards: 3 (Alumni: 2, e.g., Marvin Minsky, 1969; Faculty: 1, e.g., Michael Rabin, 1976)
• Fields Medals: 7 (Alumni: 4, e.g., John Milnor, 1962; Faculty: 3, e.g., Curtis McMullen, 1998)
• Abel Prizes: 2 (Faculty: 2, e.g., John Tate, 2010; Isadore Singer, 2004)
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 4 (Alumni: 1, e.g., John Milnor, 1989; Faculty: 3, e.g., David Mumford, 2008)
• Total (midpoint): 161
• Range: ~156-166
• Notes: Dominant across all categories, strong in math awards.
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Cambridge, MA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~80-95 (Alumni: ~38; Faculty: ~42-57)
• Turing Awards: 13 (Alumni: 6, e.g., Ronald Rivest, 2002; Faculty: 7, e.g., Barbara Liskov, 2008)
• Fields Medals: 5 (Alumni: 3, e.g., Richard Borcherds, 1998; Faculty: 2, e.g., Daniel Quillen, 1978)
• Abel Prizes: 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Peter Shor, 2023)
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 2 (Faculty: 2, e.g., Michael Artin, 2013)
• Total (midpoint): 108.5
• Range: ~101-116
• Notes: Strong in Turing and math awards due to tech focus.
3. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~87-98 (Alumni: ~48; Faculty: ~39-50)
• Turing Awards: 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Robert Floyd, 1978)
• Fields Medals: 5 (Alumni: 3, e.g., Paul Cohen, 1966; Faculty: 2, e.g., Vladimir Drinfeld, 1990)
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Yakov Sinai, 1996-97)
• Total (midpoint): 99.5
• Range: ~94-105
• Notes: Strong in Economics and Mathematics.
4. Columbia University (New York, NY)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~90-94 (Alumni: ~38; Faculty: ~52-56)
• Turing Awards: 2 (Alumni: 1, e.g., Alfred Aho, 2020; Faculty: 1, e.g., John Backus, 1977)
• Fields Medals: 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Andrei Okounkov, 2006)
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 95
• Range: ~93-97
• Notes: High Nobel count, limited math awards.
5. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~70-82 (Alumni: ~30; Faculty: ~40-50)
• Turing Awards: 8 (Alumni: 4, e.g., Ken Thompson, 1983; Faculty: 4, e.g., Andrew Yao, 2000)
• Fields Medals: 6 (Alumni: 3, e.g., William Thurston, 1982; Faculty: 3, e.g., Richard Borcherds, 1998)
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Andrew Wiles, 1995-96)
• Total (midpoint): 91
• Range: ~85-97
• Notes: Strong in math, physics, and computer science.
6. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~39-52 (Alumni: ~20; Faculty: ~19-30)
• Turing Awards: 2 (Alumni: 1, e.g., Richard Karp, 1985; Faculty: 1, e.g., Robert Tarjan, 1986)
• Fields Medals: 10 (Alumni: 5, e.g., John Milnor, 1962; Faculty: 5, e.g., Terence Tao, 2006)
• Abel Prizes: 2 (Alumni: 1, e.g., John Nash, 2015; Faculty: 1, e.g., Avi Wigderson, 2021)
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 4 (Alumni: 1, e.g., John Milnor, 1989; Faculty: 3, e.g., Noga Alon, 2024)
• Total (midpoint): 62.5
• Range: ~56-69
• Notes: Exceptional math award count, especially Fields and Wolf.
7. Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~35-56 (Alumni: ~19; Faculty: ~20-34)
• Turing Awards: 8 (Alumni: 3; Faculty: 5)
• Fields Medals: 2 (Alumni: 1, e.g., Maryam Mirzakhani, 2014; Faculty: 1, e.g., Paul Seidel, affiliated)
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 2 (Faculty: 2, e.g., Richard Schoen, 2017)
• Total (midpoint): 57.5
• Range: ~47-68
• Notes: Strong Turing and math presence.
8. Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~47 (Alumni: ~24; Faculty: ~20-23)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 2 (Alumni: 1, e.g., John Thompson, 1970; Faculty: 1, e.g., Efim Zelmanov, 1994)
• Abel Prizes: 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Gregory Margulis, 2020)
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Gregory Margulis, 2005)
• Total (midpoint): 51
• Range: ~51
• Notes: Strong Nobel, modest math awards.
9. California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (Pasadena, CA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~33-50 (Alumni: ~14; Faculty: ~19-34)
• Turing Awards: 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Ivan Sutherland, 1988)
• Fields Medals: 1 (Alumni: 1, e.g., Barry Mazur, 1982)
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 43.5
• Range: ~35-52
• Notes: High per-capita impact, limited math awards.
10. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~30 (Alumni: ~10; Faculty: ~20)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 30
• Range: ~30
• Notes: Medicine and Physics focus, no math or computing awards.
11. Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~7-9 (Alumni: ~4, e.g., John Nash, Economics, 1994; Faculty: ~3-5, e.g., Herbert Simon, Economics, 1978)
• Turing Awards: 5 (Alumni: 2, e.g., Shafi Goldwasser, 2012; Faculty: 3, e.g., Manuel Blum, 1995)
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 1 (Alumni: 1, John Nash, 2015)
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 1 (Alumni: 1, e.g., Raoul Bott, 2000)
• Total (midpoint): 14
• Range: ~13-15
• Notes: Corrected to include Nash’s Abel Prize and Raoul Bott’s Wolf Prize; strong Turing presence.
12. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Los Angeles, CA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~12-18 (Alumni: ~4-5; Faculty: ~8-13)
• Turing Awards: 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Judea Pearl, 2011)
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 16
• Range: ~13-19
• Notes: Modest Turing contribution, no math awards.
13. City College of New York (CUNY) (New York, NY)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~13 (Alumni: ~10; Faculty: ~3)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 13
• Range: ~13
• Notes: Strong for a public institution, no math or computing awards.
14. University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~5-20 (Alumni: ~5-10; Faculty: ~5-10)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Edward Witten, 1990)
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 13.5
• Range: ~6-21
• Notes: Wide Nobel range, boosted by Witten’s Fields Medal.
15. Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~3-5 (Alumni: ~1; Faculty: ~2-4)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., John Milnor, 1962)
• Abel Prizes: 2 (Faculty: 2, e.g., John Milnor, 2011; Dennis Sullivan, 2022)
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 2 (Faculty: 2, e.g., John Milnor, 1989; Dennis Sullivan, 2010)
• Total (midpoint): 9
• Range: ~8-10
• Notes: Small but impactful, strong in math awards.
16. University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) (San Francisco, CA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~10-12 (Alumni: ~2-3; Faculty: ~8-10)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 11
• Range: ~10-12
• Notes: Medicine-focused, no math or computing awards.
17. University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~7-10 (Alumni: ~3; Faculty: ~4-7)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 8.5
• Range: ~7-10
• Notes: Strong in Medicine, no math or computing awards.
18. University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (La Jolla, CA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~7-8 (Alumni: ~3; Faculty: ~4-5)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 7.5
• Range: ~7-8
• Notes: Strong in Chemistry, no math or computing awards.
19. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~5-10 (Alumni: ~3-5; Faculty: ~2-5)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 7.5
• Range: ~5-10
• Notes: Strong in Physics, no math or computing awards.
20. University of Southern California (USC) (Los Angeles, CA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~5-8 (Alumni: ~2-3; Faculty: ~3-5)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 6.5
• Range: ~5-8
• Notes: Modest Nobel count, no math or computing awards.
21. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) (Santa Barbara, CA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~6 (Alumni: ~1-2; Faculty: ~4-5)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 6
• Range: ~6
• Notes: Strong in Physics, no math or computing awards.
22. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
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• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~5-7 (Alumni: ~2; Faculty: ~3-5)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 6
• Range: ~5-7
• Notes: Strong in Medicine, no math or computing awards.
23. Duke University (Durham, NC)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~5-6 (Alumni: ~2; Faculty: ~3-4)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 5.5
• Range: ~5-6
• Notes: Strong in Chemistry, no math or computing awards.
24. Rockefeller University (New York, NY)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~5-6 (Alumni: ~1; Faculty: ~4-5)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 5.5
• Range: ~5-6
• Notes: Research-heavy, no math or computing awards.
25. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~4-5 (Alumni: ~2-3; Faculty: ~2)
• Turing Awards: 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Andrew Barto, 2024)
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 5.5
• Range: ~5-6
• Notes: Turing Award boosts ranking.
26. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~4-6 (Alumni: ~2-3; Faculty: ~2-3)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 5
• Range: ~4-6
• Notes: Balanced in Economics and Chemistry, no math or computing awards.
27. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~5 (Alumni: ~2; Faculty: ~3)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 5
• Range: ~5
• Notes: Strong in Economics and Chemistry, no math or computing awards.
28. Brown University (Providence, RI)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~4-5 (Alumni: ~2; Faculty: ~2-3)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 4.5
• Range: ~4-5
• Notes: Small but notable impact, no math or computing awards.
29. University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~3-4 (Alumni: ~1-2; Faculty: ~2)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 1 (Faculty: 1, e.g., Karen Uhlenbeck, 2019)
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 4.5
• Range: ~4-5
• Notes: Abel Prize boosts ranking.
30. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL)
• Nobel Prizes (excl. Peace): ~3-4 (Alumni: ~1-2; Faculty: ~2)
• Turing Awards: 0
• Fields Medals: 0
• Abel Prizes: 0
• Wolf Prizes (Math): 0
• Total (midpoint): 3.5
• Range: ~3-4
• Notes: Notable for John Bardeen’s dual Physics Nobels.