<p>Number of Nobel Prize winners affiliated with each school, whether as students, staff, or faculty:</p>
<p>1) UChicago - 26
2) MIT - 20
3) Harvard - 18
4) Berkeley - 17
5) Stanford - 16
6) Columbia - 14
7) Yale - 13
8) Princeton - 12
9) London School of Economics - 11
10) Cambridge / Oxford / Carnegie Mellon - 9</p>
<p>Neat stuff, although these kinds of awards can be difficult to count, given that a prof can be visiting at a university and get counted among its Nobels.</p>
<p>The last 20-30 years have been very good for Stanford in Nobel Prizes, and IIRC, Stanford is second only to MIT in that time frame for economics. Stanford also has the most Nobels in economics currently at the university.</p>
<p>Off-topic but fun fact: the SF Bay Area has absolutely dominated in Nobels in the last 25 years. Berkeley+Stanford+UCSF have garnered more Nobels than any other country. If you looked at it by state, California would cream any other state and any country by a large margin. California FTW :)</p>
<p>To Op, shouldn’t the title be UChicago is # 1 in Economics, instead of Stanford being #5?</p>
<p>Anyway, back in 2008, I had a chance to discuss with Eric Maskin, one of the 2007 Econ Nobel winners, about where my son should go, Yale or Stanford, among other things. He kept saying Yale for many some reasons, and in the end, my son chose Stanford. I felt good for not listening to Maskin since my son graduated Phi, Beta and Kappa and was the Valedictorian of one of his double majors, and starts working for Google.</p>
<p>He is countered toward to Harvard and MIT by your definition.</p>