| Università | Paese | Nobel conquistati | Studenti illustri | Docenti illustri |
| 1 | Cambridge | Gran Bretagna | 85 | Bertrand Russell,
Amartya Sen | Eric Maskin,
Alan Loyd Hodgkyn |
| 1 | Chicago | Stati Uniti | 85 | Milton Friedman,
Paul Samuelson | John Maxwell Coetze, Ada Yonath |
| 3 | Columbia | Stati Uniti | 78 | Barack Obama,
Val Logsdon Fitch | Franco Modigliani, Carlo Rubbia |
| 4 | Harvard | Stati Uniti | 75 | Theodore Roosvelt,
James Tobin | Henry Kissinger, Riccardo Giacconi |
| 5 | Massachussets Institute of Technology | Stati Uniti | 72 | Joseph Stiglitz,
Paul Krugman | Ernst Otto Fischer, Edmund Strother Phelps |
| 6 | California | Stati Uniti | 65 | Thomas Crombie Schelling, José Mario Molina-Pasquel Henríquez | George Fitzgerald Smoot, Emilio Gino Segre |
| 7 | Parigi | Francia | 59 | Jean Paul Sartre,
Pierre Curie | Marie Curie,
Charles Robert Richet |
| 8 | Oxford | Gran Bretagna | 57 | Michael Spence,
Aung San Suu Kyi | Robert Merton Solow, Joseph Eugene Stiglitz |
| 9 | Stanford | Stati Uniti | 50 | Karl Barry Sharpless,
John Charles Harsanyi | Paul Berge,
Henry Taube |
| 10 | Gottingen | Germania | 43 | Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Enrico Fermi | Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Max Born |
| 11 | Cornell | Stati Uniti | 41 | Steven Weinberg,
Robert Vogel | Manfred Eigen,
Har Gobind Khorana |
| 12 | Munich | Germania | 36 | Thomas Mann,
Otto Loewi | Feodor Lynen,
Eduard Buchner |
| 13 | Yale | Stati Uniti | 37 | Eric Wieschaus,
George Wipple | Paul Krugman,
Irwin Rose |
| 14 | New York | Stati Uniti | 33 | Mohamed El Baradei, Frederick Reines | Robert Aumann,
Wole Soyinka |
| 15 | Princeton | Stati Uniti | 32 | Andrew Michael Spence, Gary Stanley Becker | |
