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There is no room for Harvard in the top 10 list of world’s universities with the most Nobel Laureates as Stanford tops the new list of this century’s universities with Israel and Germany being sole representatives for the rest of the world in the United States, US, dominated universities table. This, has become a source of concern for the rest of the world as US takes eight of the top 10 places and tops the top 10 list of countries that have produced the most Nobel Prize Laureates too
| By Maureen Chigbo | Aug 6, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT |
HARVARD University, which some Nigerian public officials love to boast with is not in the list of top 10 Universities in the world with Most Nobel Laureates Prize winners. Instead, Stanford University tops the list which is dominated by United States. Brand new analysis published Thursday, August 6, has revealed the universities with the most Nobel Prize winners this century. This top 10 list, which has been released by Times Higher Education ahead of its World Academic Summit at the University of Melbourne, Australia, shows the United States, US, dominating the tables, holding eight of the 10 positions in total.
Stanford University, which has seen seven Nobel Laureates since the year 2000, takes first place.
Israel’s Technion and Germany’s Max Planck Society take the two remaining prestigious positions, in joint eighth and 10th place, respectively, both having been awarded their two most recent Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, according to a press release which was made available to Realnews on August 6, by the publishers.
Harvard University does not feature in the elite top 10, lying just outside in 11th place. The UK’s internationally acclaimed University of Cambridge also lies just outside of the group.
Cambridge’s British rival, the University of Oxford does not feature at all in the list having produced no Nobel Prize winners this century.
The data also provides analysis of which countries can count the most Nobel Prize winners this century.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the US tops the tables, with nearly half (71) of the 146 laureates since the year 2000 being American. The US’s ‘golden year’ was 2006 – the only year since the start of the century where all the prize winners were from one country and affiliated with the country’s institutions.
The UK – whose universities aren’t featured in the top 10 – makes a surprise appearance in second place when it comes to overall number of prize winners, receiving an overall score of 6 and a total of 12 awards this century.
Australia is the only country whose nationals have received one hundred per cent of their awards in the same area, receiving three in the field of Physiology or Medicine.*
The tables have been published by respected global higher education experts, Times Higher Education ahead of the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, which is being held from 30th September to 2nd October 2015.
The Summit will discuss universities’ intellectual and economic roles and hold sessions on nurturing the next generation of Nobel Laureates, including a session with internationally acclaimed Laureate, Professor Brian Schmidt and with chancellor of number three ranked University of California, Berkeley, Professor Nicholas Dirks.
Times Higher Education’s flagship World University Rankings will also be launched at the event, which will include a rankings masterclass from editor of the Times Higher Education rankings, Phil Baty.
To find out more or register to attend the event, visit www.theworldsummitseries.com
The world’s universities with the most Nobel Prize Laureates this century: Top 10
Source: Times Higher Education
| Rank | Institution | Country | Score |
| 1 | Stanford University | US | 3.16 |
| 2 | Columbia University | US | 2.5 |
| 3 | University of California, Berkeley | US | 2.25 |
| 4 | Princeton University | US | 2 |
| 4 | University of Chicago | US | 2 |
| 6 | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | US | 1.78 |
| 7 | University of California, Santa Barbara | US | 1.74 |
| 8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | US | 1.66 |
| 8 | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Israel | 1.66 |
| 10 | Max Planck Society | Germany | 1.29 |
The list has been produced by examining Nobel Prizes awarded in the 21st Century only. Each University has been given a score based on the number of winners affiliated with the institution at the time the award was granted. This means that literature and peace prize winners were excluded from the analysis.
The score is then weighted based on the number of prize winners for the category and the number of institutions affiliated with each award.
Which nationalities have won the most Nobel Prizes this century: Top 10
Source: Times Higher Education
| Rank | Country | Score | Overall number of Nobel Prizes | Top field | Percentage of Prizes awarded in top field |
| 1 | US | 29.8 | 71 | Economic Sciences | 34% |
| 2 | UK | 6 | 12 | Physiology / Medicine | 75% |
| 3 | Japan | 4.3 | 13 | Physics | 54% |
| 4 | Germany | 3.4 | 7 | Physics | 43% |
| 5 | Israel | 2.5 | 5 | Chemistry | 80% |
| 6 | France | 2 | 4 | Physiology / Medicine | 50% |
| 6 | Russia | 2 | 5 | Physics | 80% |
| 8 | Australia | 1.3 | 3 | Physiology / Medicine | 100% |
| 9 | Norway | 1 | 3 | Physiology / Medicine | 67% |
| 10 | Belgium | 0.8 | 2 | N/A | N/A |
| 10 | China | 0.8 | 2 | N/A | N/A |
| 10 | Italy | 0.8 | 2 | N/A | N/A |
Phil Baty, editor, Times Higher Education rankings said:
“This list gives a snapshot of universities at the very top of their game; those attracting and nurturing the very best faculty in the world and those willing to give their academics the freedom and support to fulfil their potential. It is not surprising that the US dominates the list.
“Asia’s otherwise world-class institutions are notable by their absence in this table – while many in East Asia have benefitted from generous funding in recent decades and exciting reforms which have seen them march up the World University Rankings, there is a remaining challenge around nurturing the creativity, the freedom and the often rather maverick thinking that can lead to the most ground-breaking scientific discoveries.
“But the UK should also take this as a warning sign – is the uniquely pressurised atmosphere created by a series of funding cuts and a growing culture of short-termism and target-setting taking its toll on our academics’ ability to truly find the space to think big?
“I’m really excited that we will be discussing these issues, with presidents of the world’s leading universities, at the THE World Academic Summit in Melbourne.”
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Never mind the fact that Stanford produces such large number of Nobel Prize winners- the nation with the greatest percentage of Nobel Prize winners is- you guess it- ISRAEL and Jews are disproportionately represented among the list of Nobel Prize winners (winning 24% of the 850 Nobel prizes awarded between 1900 and 2015. Astonishingly also, the major of women who have been awarded the Nobel Prize are Jewish also)