Most Alum Nobel Winners

truth123
Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:02:00 +0000

A list of schools whose alums have won the most Nobel prizes per capita. Based on number of alums who’ve won Nobel prizes adjusted for size of living alumni population.
(This approximates the number of Nobel winners a school has per capita among its total alum base since the award was first given.)

School / # Alum Nobels / # Living Alums / Proportion

1) Caltech /17/ 20,000/ 1 in 1,176
2) MIT / 30/ 120,000/ 1 in 4,000
3) Cambridge /65/ 263,400/ 1 in 4,052
4) UChicago /30/ 145,000/ 1 in 4,833
5) Princeton /14/ 80,000/ 1 in 5,714
6) Harvard /60/ 345,000/ 1 in 5,750
7) Yale /19/ 127,240/ 1 in 6,696
8) Columbia /40/ 300,000/ 1 in 7,500
9) Oxford /27/ 230,000/ 1 in 8,518
10) Berkeley /29/ 458,000/ 1 in 15,793
11) Stanford /9/ 194,626/ 1 in 21,625