10 Universities with the Most Nobel Laureates

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world and a source of immense pride for universities and their alumni. Several universities worldwide have successfully produced numerous alumni who have received this prestigious award.

According to bestmastersprograms.org, Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, is the university with the most Nobel laureates globally, with 151 recipients from diverse professions, including politicians, writers, and economists.

Some Nobel laureates from Harvard University include Theodore Roosevelt, Ralph Bunche, Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, and Barack Obama (Nobel Peace Prize); Martin Karplus (Nobel Prize in Chemistry); and author J. M. Coetzee (Nobel Prize in Literature).

Columbia University is the second-highest university with the most Nobel laureates, with 101 recipients. The University of Cambridge ranks third with 90 Nobel laureates.

Other universities that have also produced many Nobel laureates include the University of Chicago (89), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (83), the University of California, Berkeley (69), the University of Oxford and Stanford University (58 each), Yale University (52), and the University of Paris (51).

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