<p>^^ There goes the British dual inferiority/superiority complex again. The only reason that Cambridge has as many Nobels as it does is because Europe has practically no good universities, so pretty much all European scholars flood to Cambridge/Oxford. I wouldn’t say it’s a success of Cambridge as much as it’s a failure of European universities in general. In comparison, the Nobel counts of Chicago/Columbia are much more impressive since these institutions have to fight with Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT, and Caltech for the best.</p>
<p>Oh, and it does appear that Columbia has the most Nobel Prizes. However, it’s notable that Harvard is very conservative in its counting, and if Harvard actually counted like Columbia/Chicago does, it would beat everyone by a sizable margin.</p>