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Times Higher Education (THE) recently released the list of 10 universities that has been affiliated with the higest number of Noble prize winners. According to Forbes, the first nine universities are based in the US except for an instituition in Israel which has taken the tenth spot. Universities which couldn't make it to the list were Rockefeller University and the Max Planck Society in Germany. Times Higher Education ranked th universities by giving each a scoreboard on the number of Nobel Prize winners affiliated with the institution at the time its award was granted. Based on the number of prizewinners for the category and the number of institutions affiliated with each award winner, the ranks were decided. Literature and peace prize winners were excluded from the list. Take look at the full list:
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Princeton University has scored 3.25 and has ranked no. 1 on the Times Higher Education list of universities with the most Nobel Prize-winning work from 2000 to 2017. (Reuters)
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Columbia University scored 2.83 and has ranked 2nd. (Reuters)
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Stanford University has scored 3.16 and ranked 3rd on the list. (Reuters)
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University of California, Berkeley has scored 2.25 and ranks 4th on the list. (Reuters)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology has scored 2.67 and ranks 5th. (Reuters)
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University of Chicago has scored 3.00 and ranks 6th on the list. (Reuters)
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute has scored 1.94 on the list. (Reuters)
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The famous Harvard University has made to the 8th position. (Reuters)
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University of California, Santa Barbara is on the 9th position and hs scored 1.74. (Reuters)
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Technion Israel Institute of Technology scored 1.66 and is in the 10th position. (Reuters)
