Top 50 University in terms of wining Noble Prize
1. Harvard University – Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nobel winners: 151
2. Columbia University – New York City, New York
Nobel winners: 101
3. University of Cambridge – Cambridge, U.K.
Nobel winners: 90
4. University of Chicago – Chicago, Illinois
Nobel winners: 89
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nobel winners: 83
6. University of California, Berkeley – Berkeley, California
Nobel winners: 69
7. University of Oxford – Oxford, U.K.
Nobel winners: 58
8. Stanford University – Stanford, California
Nobel winners: 58
9. Yale University – New Haven, Connecticut
Nobel winners: 52
10. University of Paris – Paris, France
Nobel winners: 51
11. University of Göttingen – Göttingen, Germany
Nobel winners: 46
12. Cornell University – Ithaca, New York
Nobel winners: 43
13. Heidelberg University – Heidelberg, Germany
Nobel winners: 41
14. Humboldt University of Berlin – Berlin, Germany
Nobel winners: 40
15. Princeton University – Princeton, New Jersey
Nobel winners: 37
16. Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore, Maryland
Nobel winners: 36
17. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich – Munich, Germany
Nobel winners: 35
18. New York University – New York City, New York
Nobel winners: 35
19. California Institute of Technology – Pasadena, California
Nobel winners: 33
20. ETH Zürich – Zürich, Switzerland
Nobel Winners: 31
21. University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nobel winners: 29
22. University College London – London, U.K.
Nobel winners: 27
23. University of Manchester – Manchester, U.K.
Nobel winners: 25
24. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Urbana/Champaign, Illinois
Nobel winners: 24
25. Rockefeller University – New York City, New York
Nobel winners: 24
26. University of Minnesota – Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Nobel winners: 23
27. Washington University in St. Louis – St. Louis, Missouri
Nobel winners: 22
28. Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nobel winners: 21
29. University of Zürich – Zürich, Switzerland
Nobel winners: 21
30. University of California, San Diego – La Jolla, California
Nobel winners: 20
31. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Michigan
Nobel winners: 20
32. Technical University of Munich – Munich, Germany
Nobel winners: 20
33. University of Freiburg – Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Nobel winners: 19
34. University of Wisconsin-Madison – Madison, Wisconsin
Nobel winners: 19
35. University of Edinburgh – Edinburgh, U.K.
Nobel winners: 18
36. London School of Economics and Political Science – London, U.K.
Nobel winners: 17
37. Imperial College London – London, U.K.
Nobel winners: 16
38. Case Western Reserve University – Cleveland, Ohio
Nobel winners: 16
39. Leiden University – Leiden, Netherlands
Nobel winners: 16
40. University of Vienna – Vienna, Austria
Nobel winners: 15
41. Uppsala University – Uppsala, Sweden
Nobel winners: 15
42. University of California, Los Angeles – Los Angeles, California
Nobel winners: 15
43. Goethe University Frankfurt – Frankfurt, Germany
Nobel winners: 14
44. University of Würzburg – Würzburg, Germany
Nobel winners: 14
45. École Normale Supérieure – Paris, France
Nobel winners: 14
46. University of Copenhagen – Copenhagen, Denmark
Nobel winners: 13
47. City University of New York – New York City, New York
Nobel winners: 13
48. King’s College London – London, U.K.
Nobel winners: 12
49. Duke University – Durham, North Carolina
Nobel winners: 12
50. University of Washington – Seattle, Washington
Nobel winners: 12
Source: BestMastersPrograms.org