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Here each BA education ( ~ 3 years in UK, ~ 3/4 years Europe and ~ 4 years in US ) earns 1 point and each PhD education ( ~ 3/4 years in UK & Europe and ~ 5 years in US ) earns 1 point, too.

Since there are several medalists who were educated at different universities for BA & PhD separately, thus when we count points for each university, it's inevitable to count some medalists twice.

But it doesn't matter since both BA education and PhD education are equally important and should be the pride of each university.

A BA education gives the sense of the so-called university education in which the role of teaching is very important, while a PhD education mainly gives the sense of the so-called academic influence in which each doctoral advisor plays a very important role.

Doctoral advisors, in general, can move within universities during the time their students are being supervised ( of course, by them ) to do a PhD. Some PhD students may move with their doctoral advisor ( i.e they have to transfer to a new graduate school ) or some may stay at their initial graduate school but have to seek for another doctoral advisor. So the role of a university in giving a PhD education seems less important ?

However, PhD students also often need communicate with each other so the environment ( i.e the university ) is very important, too. Therefore, overally, we can consider the role of a university in educating a PhD student and that in educating a BA student are pretty much the same !

Ecole NORMALE SUPERIEURE ( ENS )

1950: BA ( Laurent Schwartz ) ---> 1 point
1954: BA ( Jean-Pierre Serre ) ---> 1 point

1958: BA ( Rene Thom ) ---> 1 point

1982: BA & PhD ( Alain Connes )---> 2 points

1994: BA ( Pierre-Louis Lions ) ---> 1 point

BA ( Jean Yoccoz ) ---> 1 point
2002: BA ( Laurent Lafforgue ) ---> 1 point

2006: BA ( Wendelin Werner ) ---> 1 point

2010: BA ( Cedric Villani ) ---> 1 point

BA ( Ngô Bảo Châu ) ---> 1 point
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Total : 11 points
Number of medalists: 10
Number of joint medalists: 9
Number of "Monopoly" medalists: 1
Rank: 1
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CAMBRIDGE University ( CANTAB )

1958: BA ( Klaus Roth ) —> 1 point
1966: BA & PhD ( Michael Atiyah ) —> 2 points
1970: PhD ( Alan Baker ) —> 1 point
1974: PhD ( Enrico Bombieri ) —> 1 point
1986: BA ( Simon Donaldson ) —> 1 point
1998: BA & PhD ( Richard Borcherds ) —> 2 points
BA & PhD ( Timothy Gowers ) —> 2 points
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Total: 10 points
Number of medalists: 7
Number of joint medalists: 4
Number of "Monopoly" medalists: 3
Rank: 2
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MOSCOW STATE University ( LOMONOSOV )

1970: BA & PhD ( Seigei Novikov ) ---> 2 points
1978: PhD ( Grigory Margulis ) ---> 1 point

1990: BA ( Vladimir Drinfeld ) ---> 1 point

1998: BA ( Maxim Kontsevich ) ---> 1 point

2002: BA ( Vladimir Voevodsky ) ---> 1 point

2006: BA & PhD ( Andrei Dkounkov ) ---> 2 points

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Total: 8 points
Number of medalists: 6
Number of joint medalists: 4
Number of "Monopoly" medalists: 2
Rank: 3
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HARVARD University

1970: PhD ( Heisuke Hironaka ) ---> 1 point
1974: BA & PhD ( David Mumford ) ---> 2 points

1978: BA & PhD ( Daniel Quillen ) ---> 2 points

1998: PhD ( Curtis McMullen ) ---> 1 point

2002: PhD ( Vladimir Voevodsky ) ---> 1 point

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Total: 7 points
Number of medalists: 5
Number of joint medalists: 3
Number of "Monopoly" medalists: 2
Rank: 4
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PRINCETON University

1962: BA & PhD ( John Milnor ) ---> 2 points
1978: PhD ( Charles Fefferman ) ---> 1 point
1986: PhD ( Michael Freedman ) ---> 1 point

1990: PhD ( Edward Witten ) ---> 1 point

2006: PhD (Terrence Tao ) ---> 1 point

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Total: 6 points
Number of medalists: 5
Number of joint medalists: 4
Number of "Monopoly" medalists: 1
Rank: 5
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SORBONNE ( mainly Paris VI & Paris XI )

Paris VI : 1994: PhD ---> 1 point
2006: PhD ---> 1 point
Paris XI: 2002: PhD ---> 1 point
2010: PhD ---> 1 point
Sorbonne in general ( they did not state what Paris universites were, i.e Paris VI or Paris XI or Paris III ? ):

1954: PhD ---> 1 point

1968: PhD ---> 1 point
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Total: 6 points
Number of medalists: 6 ( mainly from Ecole Normale Superieure where they studied for a BA )
Number of joint medalists: 6
Number of "Monopoly" medalists: 0
Rank: 5 = Princeton ???

But Sorbonne ( = Paris 1, 2, 3... --> Paris 13 ) seems too big compared to all other universities ---> should be ranked after Princeton, even should not be ranked here as ONE university !

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So the ranking table ( for Field Medals only ) ) in summary, is:

1. Ecole Normale Superieure ( ENS ) : 11 points
2. University of Cambridge ( Cantab ) : 10 points
3. Moscow State University ( Lomonosov ) : 8 points
4. Harvard University: 7 points
5. Princeton University: 6 points
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For all detailed sources, please refer to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal ( click on every single Field Medalist, look at Alma Mater section and also read their biographies to figure out where they studied for BA & PhD )
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