The following is a list of the top 30 universities ranked by the number of Nobel laureates associated with them as of 2024. This ranking includes laureates who are either alumni or faculty members.

  • Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 161
  • University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles, USA, 110
  • University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 100
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, 97
  • Columbia University, New York, USA, 96
  • Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, 84
  • University of Cambridge, England, UK, 76
  • University of Oxford, England, UK, 69
  • Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 65
  • University of Paris (Sorbonne), France, 61
  • Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, 39
  • University of Göttingen, Germany, 38
  • University of Munich (LMU), Germany, 38
  • Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA, 36
  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 30
  • University College London, UK, 30
  • University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 27
  • University of Vienna, Austria, 26
  • University of Zurich, Switzerland, 26
  • University of Geneva, Switzerland, 25
  • University of Pennsylvania, USA, 25
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 25
  • University of Strasbourg, France, 21
  • University of Freiburg, Germany, 21
  • University of Toronto, Canada, 20
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, 18
  • University of Basel, Switzerland, 15
  • University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, 14
  • University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 13
  • University of Hamburg, Germany, 13

Note that numbers vary slightly by source.