We last did this for membership through 2021. The National Academy of Sciences is the even more selective "science only" cousin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. While it does elect faculty in the social sciences (especially economics, psychology, and anthropology), its focus is on the natural sciences, engineering and other applied sciences, and the biological sciences, including those in and around medicine; any university with a good medical school tends to do better, all else being equal, in NAS representation (indeed, some universities with top medical schools, like UC San Francisco and Texas Southwestern in Dallas make the list, despite not being full service research universities; and other major research universities, like Johns Hopkins and Wash U/St. Louis owe half their NAS membership to medical school faculty). As a result I mark with an asterisk (*) universities without medical schools, and I mark with a # universities with medical schools with very high research profiles (Some schools, like UT Austin, UC Riverside and Illinois/Urbana have only recently added medical schools.) As with the AAAS, there is a certain amount of "the rich get richer" at the NAS, though the schools with the most members are indeed very strong in the sciences.
1. #Harvard University (170)
2. #Stanford University (167)
3. *University of California, Berkeley (135)
4. *Massachusetts Institute of Technology (117)
5. *Princeton University (84)
6. *California Institute of Technology (69)
7. Columbia University (68)
8. Yale University (64)
9. University of Chicago (57)
10. University of California, San Diego (50)
11. New York University (48)
12. #University of Washington, Seattle (46)
13. University of California, Los Angeles (44)
14. #University of California, San Francisco (41)
14. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (41)
14. #University of Pennsylvania (41)
17. Cornell University (40)
18. Duke University (34)
19. *Rockefeller University (33)
20. #Johns Hopkins University (32)
21. Northwestern University (31)
21. *University of California, Santa Barbara (31)
21. #Washington University, St. Louis (31)
24. University of Wisconsin, Madison (30)
25. University of California, Davis (28)
25. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (28)
27. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (24)
28. *Rutgers University, New Brunswick (23)
28. University of California, Irvine (23)
30. *Scripps Research Institute (22)
31. *University of Colorado, Boulder (21)
32. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul (19)
32. University of Texas, Austin (19)
34. Arizona State University (17)
35. *University of Maryland, College Park (16)
35. University of Utah (16)
37. *Pennsylvania State University, University Park (15)
37. University of Arizona (15)
37. *University of California, Santa Cruz (15)
40. University of Florida, Gainesville (14)
41. *Texas A&M University (13)
41. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (13)
43. Ohio State University (12)
44. *Carnegie-Mellon University (11)
44. Stony Brook University, State University of New York (11)
44. University of Southern California (11)
47. *Indiana University, Bloomington (10)
47. Michigan State University (10)
49. *Rice University (9)
49. *University of Oregon (9)
Other schools checked: Boston University (7); *Brandeis University (8); Brown University (7); Case Western Reserve University (3); Emory University (4); *Florida State University (3); *Georgia Institute of Technology (5); University at Buffalo, State University of New York (1); University of California, Riverside (8); University of Illinois, Chicago (1); *University of Georgia (6); University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2); University of Nevada, Reno (2); *University of Notre Dame (1); University of Pittsburgh (8); University of Virginia (4); Vanderbilt University (6); *Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (4).
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