<li>University of Cambridge, UK (70 Nobel) </li>
<li>M.I.T, USA (63 Nobel) </li>
<li>University of Oxford, UK (47 Nobel) </li>
<li>Columbia University, USA (39 Nobel) </li>
<li>Caltech, USA (31 Nobel) </li>
<li>University of California Berkeley, USA (24 Nobel) </li>
<li>University of Paris, France (20 Nobel) </li>
<li>Harvard, USA (19 Nobel), </li>
<li>Stanford, USA (19 Nobel) </li>
<li>Yale, USA (17 Nobel) </li>
<li>University of Chicago, USA (15 Nobel) </li>
<li>London School of Economics, UK (14 Nobel)
12.Cornell University, USA (13 Nobel)</li>
</ol>
<p>or possibly even these (alumni + faculty Nobel Prizes)
83 University of Cambridge
82 Columbia University
79 University of Chicago
76 Harvard University
63 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
61 University of California, Berkeley
50 Grandes Ecoles
50 Stanford University
47 University of Oxford
41 University of Paris
40 Cornell University
See, universities that actually matter have alumni and faculty that win Nobel Prizes. The rest are just hype. This is the true world rankings, completely undisputable</p>
<p>Well...just because a uni has Nobel-winning professors does not mean those professors are teaching most of the undergrads. While certainly all these universities are excellent, this list excludes a lot of wonderful LACs that focus on undergrads rather than research. Nobel awards should certainly be a factor in rankings, but not the be-all-end-all of the college ranking system.</p>
<p>Ummm this is a very stupid way to rank colleges. You probably wont end up with a nobel winner as your mentor, and you probably wont end up being taught by one at Oxbridge or Cornell. Ranking systems are stupid because at the level of the ivy league and other top schools, differences are not quantifiable. Each school has its own character, so to speak, and schools' qualities will vary according to that character-not how good a place the school is.
People need to get OUT of the mindset of comparing colleges in terms of lists, places, ratings, rankings, and prizes, and get into looking at them as equal but different. Every place has its own characteristics. Some great schools are known to be preprofessional, others pregraduate, others academic. Some of those schools will produce nobel laureates, others will produce rich business execs, others will produce the most interesting yet not-so-wealthy peopple in the world. Its not as simple as you believe.</p>
<p>And by the way, Cornell has 40 Nobel peeps:
"Cornell counts more than 240,000 living alumni, 28 Rhodes Scholars and 40 Nobel laureates affiliated with the university as faculty or students."
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University</a>)</p>
<p>edit: meh didnt see second post. but anyways pay attn to the first part.</p>
<p>Great post! I would not,however,rank the undergraduate schools by # of Nobel prize winners as these are most likely graduates of the graduate schools who probably attended undergrad elsewhere.</p>
<p>Are there any Peace Prize winners? I would love to take a class w/ one...</p>
<p>From my experiences at Cornell, a professor's teaching ability is usually mutually exclusive of how good his research is. I've heard from my friends who've taken Hoffmann's class (Chem Nobel Prize), that his teaching os pretty bad, and he regularly mixes up concepts. However, I've had some brilliant professors in their 20s and 30s, but explain concepts very well.
Nevertheless, having 40 Nobel Laureates is pretty impressive, and it speaks of the quality of research here.</p>
<p>These are the number of faculty who have been awarded these prestigious awards:</p>
<p>Nobel Laureates 28</p>
<p>American Academy of Arts and Sciences 34</p>
<p>American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows 65</p>
<p>Guggenheim Fellowships (since 1999) 11</p>
<p>National Academy of Engineering 22</p>
<p>National Academy of Sciences 40</p>
<p>National Institute of Medicine 13</p>
<p>National Medal of Science 7</p>
<p>National Science Foundation Career Award Recipients 63</p>
<p>Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Recipients (since 1995) 8</p>
<p>Sloan Foundation Fellowships (since 1999) 18</p>
<p>Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows 34</p>
<p>Turing Award in Computer Science 2</p>
<p>That's very true...but I stand by my statement cuz at least a Peace Prize winner would still be a very inspiring individual. Chem...not so much lol</p>
<p>hahaha...very true, a peace prize winner would be awesome!!!!</p>