25 Schools responsible for the greatest advances in Science

[tk21769]

Isn’t the qz.com table highlighting one specific CUNY college…City College of New York (CCNY), which currently have a total enrollment of about 15K and was a fairly small college when most of the Nobel Laureates attended the school (1933-1963 time frame)? CUNY-Hunter College had two Nobel Laureates and CUNY-Brooklyn College had one. CCNY had a total of ten Nobel Laureates.

According to Wikipedia, CUNY alumni have never won the Turing Award.
One CCNY alumnus (Jesse Douglas, BA 1936) won the Fields Medal.
12 CUNY Bachelor’s degree recipients, including Hunter and Brooklyn College alumni, have won the Nobel (plus Henry Kissinger, who attended but did not graduate from CCNY). That makes 13 Nobel/Fields winners for the CUNY system during the ~50 year period, which is the quartz.com number (but apparently 10 Nobel/Fields winners for CCNY alone.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turing_Award_laureates_by_university_affiliation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fields_Medal_winners_by_university_affiliation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation#Other_universities

[PurpleTitan]

CCNY also was in the top 10 among schools where PhDs went to undergrad, once upon a time. Basically, back when the Ivies discriminated against Jews, CCNY ended up with a ton of talent.