This list of academic awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for academic contributions. It does not include professorships, fellowships or student awards other than awards to students who have made an original contribution to an academic field. The country of the institution granting the award is given, but many awards are open to people from around the world.
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| International | Transformative advances in fundamental physics[1] | |||
| International | Research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human life[2] | |||
| International | Mathematics[3] | |||
| International | Outstanding papers on the principles of distributed computing[4] | |||
| International | Software or approaches that successfully address a GBIF-issued challenge in the field of biodiversity informatics[5] | |||
| International | Substantial contributions to the field of biodiversity informatics[6] [7] | |||
| International | Outstanding contributions in mathematics attributed to young scientists. See also List of Fields Medal winners by university affiliation[8] [9] [10] | |||
| International | Outstanding contributions in mathematical physics, and contributions which lay the groundwork for novel developments in this broad field[11] [12] | |||
| International | Young physicist or mathematician from a developing country to promote theoretical mathematics and physics research in the developing world[13] | |||
| International | Top researchers and scientists[14] | |||
| International | Major contribution to understanding the relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized computing[15] [16] | |||
| International | Academic prize for research into long-term investment and radical innovation | |||
| International | Dan David Foundation | Prize for outstanding work in the study of the human past [17] |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | Excellence in science breakthroughs[18] | |||
| South Africa | Original research in the sciences[19] |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | Brazilian researchers for their career's work advancing the progress of science, and knowledge transfer from academia to the productive sector | |||
| Canada | Leading scholar in the area of Global Health | |||
| Canada | CNIB Foundation etc. | Vision scientists around the world who have made a major, original contribution for advancement in understanding the causes of blindness and vision loss, as well as potential cures, treatments and preventions | ||
| Canada | Individual who has made a significant contribution to Canadian psychology as a scientific discipline (as a researcher, teacher, theorist, spokesperson, or public policy developer) | |||
| Canada | Canadian students and athletes who had achieved high excellence in academics and athletics | |||
| Canada | Distinguished Canadian mass spectrometrist | |||
| Chile | Academic merit | |||
| Mexico | Ibero-American scholars in recognition of advances in science and/or technology | |||
| United States and Canada | Outstanding article published in PMLA, the association's primary journal | |||
| United States | Outstanding initiative conducted in international higher education by universities and colleges under IIE network | |||
| United States | Scientific eminence in clay mineralogy (in its broadest sense) as evidenced by the publication of outstanding original scientific research and by the impact of this research on the clay sciences | |||
| United States | Original, sustained and reproducible scholarship that has made major contributions to the understanding of diabetes, its treatment and/or prevention | |||
| United States | Thinkers whose ideas have helped us find direction, wisdom, and improved self-understanding in a world being rapidly transformed by profound social, technological, political, cultural, and economic change | |||
| United States | An individual early in his or her career in recognition of significant achievement in basic or applied mass spectrometry | |||
| United States | Outstanding public policy research | |||
| United States | Extraordinary and distinguished contribution to the advancement of higher education | |||
| United States | To mathematicians to recognize their achievement in mathematical research | |||
| United States | Cayuga County Historical Society | Scholastic and other contributions to the betterment of knowledge of the Iroquois people | ||
| United States | Pioneering work empowered by scientific research to create inventions, technologies, and products in optics and imaging | |||
| United States | Significant advances in nanotechnology | |||
| United States | Research that advances public interest communications around positive social change, including issues such as education, health, politics, and the environment | |||
| United States | Outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500 | |||
| United States | Best article of the year published in the American Journal of Philology | |||
| United States | Distinguished book in the field of medieval studies | |||
| United States | Distinguished academic achievement in publishing original research that contributes to a deeper historical understanding of the broad context and interrelationships involved in the roles, contributions, limitations, and uses of the sea services in history | |||
| United States | Teams responsible for creation of innovative and impactful products based on chemistry and chemical engineering | |||
| United States | Scholarly work on Italian literature or comparative Italian literature | |||
| United States | Meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering or the electrical arts | |||
| United States | Exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest | |||
| United States | Outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence | |||
| United States | Outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics | |||
| United States | Life-time of contributions to the discipline centered on scholarship | |||
| United States | Book by a historian | |||
| United States | Outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography | |||
| United States | Scholarship in any field where it is possible, through original effort, to gather and relate facts or principles, or both, and to present the results in such a literary form as to make the product of general human interest | |||
| United States | Best doctoral dissertation in field of broadcasting and electronic media | |||
| United States | Language translator | |||
| United States | Best dissertation of the preceding year | |||
| United States | Best dissertation in the field of public administration | |||
| United States | The Boston Globe | The most significant innovators, inventions, or ideas from MIT, MIT alumni, and other MIT-related people and organizations | ||
| United States | Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation | Substantial recent contributions in the biomedical sciences | ||
| United States | Distinguished work of scholarship in twentieth- or twenty-first-century literature and thought | |||
| United States | Maize Genetics Executive Committee | Study of plant genome structure, function and evolution, including the analysis of gene regulation and epigenetics | ||
| United States | Distinguished and continuing achievements in original research | |||
| United States | University of Maryland, College Park etc. | Outstanding work in the theory of dynamical systems and related areas | ||
| United States | Best graduate student paper about some aspect of the social responsibilities of librarians, libraries, or librarianship | |||
| United States | Important collections of letters | |||
| United States | International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism | Outstanding scientific contribution made by an early career scientist | ||
| United States | Best in professional and scholarly publishing | |||
| United States | Book in English by a historian. Preference given to early-career academics. | |||
| United States | Person who has fostered public support for the humanities through speaking, writing, policy making, or other activities | |||
| United States | Individuals who by virtue of initiating new areas of research, development or engineering have had a significant impact on the field of nanotechnology | |||
| United States | Developers of effective new approaches to teaching among political scientists | |||
| United States | Researcher who has made outstanding contributions to the discipline of criminology, and who has received his or her Ph.D., M.D., or other graduate degree no more than five years before receiving the award | |||
| United States | SIAM members who are recognized by their peers as distinguished for their contributions to the discipline | |||
| United States | Association for Computing Machinery | Lifetime contributions to computer science education | ||
| United States | Association for Computing Machinery | Significant contribution to computer science education | ||
| United States | Senior members of the profession who have made distinguished lifetime contributions to the study of Latin America | |||
| United States | Mathematical research in the theory of the kernel function and its applications in real and complex analysis; or function-theoretic methods in the theory of partial differential equations of elliptic type with attention to Bergman's operator method. | |||
| United States | Psychological research on the relationship between consciousness and the physical world | |||
| United States | Outstanding book in African diaspora history | |||
| United States | Yale Graduate School Alumni Association | Distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service | ||
| United States | Outstanding and unselfish work in magnetism of Earth materials and of the Earth and planets |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong | Yidan Prize Foundation | Two individuals or organizations whose work has made contributions to education research and development[20] [21] | ||
| India | Careers360, Minister of Human Resource Development | Academic and research output in Scopus indexed journals, citation index and h-index[22] | ||
| India | Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra (VASVIK) | Excellence in industrial research in the areas of science and technology[23] [24] | ||
| Japan | Asahi Shimbun | Achievement in science or arts that has made a great contribution to culture or society[25] | ||
| Japan | Fukuoka City International Foundation | Outstanding individuals or groups/organizations in preserving and creating the unique and diverse cultures of Asia[26] | ||
| Japan | Outstanding achievements in the fields of medical research and medical services to combat infectious and other diseases in Africa[27] [28] | |||
| Japan | Outstanding contribution to the advancement of research in fundamental biology | |||
| Japan | Japan Prize Foundation | Original and outstanding achievements in science and technology that are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and having served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind | ||
| Japan | Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences | |||
| Japan | Nishina Memorial Foundation | Young scientists who have made substantial contributions in the field of atomic and sub-atomic physics research | ||
| Japan | Outstanding contributions to the development, promotion and progress of the arts | |||
| Taiwan | Tang Prize Foundation | Outstanding contributions in sustainable development, biopharmaceutical science, sinology, and rule of law | ||
| Thailand | Monarch of Thailand | Distinguished services in the domains of the arts and sciences |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | Österreichische Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts | Researchers in the humanities and social sciences | ||
| Denmark | Mark of respect to a researcher who has produced one or more significant results which show promise in future research | |||
| Europe | Sustained academic excellence | |||
| Europe | European Academy of Surface Technology | Early career researcher active in Europe on the grounds of originality, creativity and excellence in surface technology | ||
| Europe | Substantial and original contribution in comparative social science research | |||
| France | Work related to China, Japan or East Asia that was published by a French author | |||
| France | Fondation Napoléon | Best non-Francophone historical work on the First Napoleonic Empire | ||
| France | Sinological work (usually) published in the previous year | |||
| France | Social Choice and Welfare Prize | Society for Social Choice and Welfare | Young scholars, under the age of 40, in the areas of social choice theory and welfare economics | |
| Germany / United Kingdom | Feldberg Foundation Prize | Experimental medical research, in particular in physiology, pharmacology and related topics | ||
| Germany | Outstanding mathematical contributions that have found significant applications outside of mathematics | |||
| Germany | Outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace engineering | |||
| Germany | Outstanding scientific achievement by junior scientists | |||
| Germany | Achievements in the fields of military history and history of military technology | |||
| Germany | Outstanding scientific achievements in the field of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics | |||
| Ireland | Outstanding contributions to scholarship and the objectives of the Academy | |||
| Italy | Outstanding contributions in new frontiers in hydrocarbons, renewable and non-conventional energy, protection of the environment | |||
| Netherlands | Amsterdam Fund for the Arts | Exemplary writing in the Dutch language | ||
| Norway | King of Norway | Outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics | ||
| Norway | Outstanding technical-scientific or other scientific work or benefits to the Science Society | |||
| Norway | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Researchers in one or more subject areas of chemistry, physics or mathematics | ||
| Norway | Eminent representative of the statistics profession; younger statistician who has authored or coauthored a high quality journal article | |||
| Spain | Popularization of science | |||
| Spain | Persons whose literary or scientific work has a humanistic orientation and application, in the tradition of the University's namesake Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo | |||
| Spain | Princess of Asturias Foundation | Individuals, entities or organizations from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, and public affairs | ||
| Sweden / Norway | Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute etc. | Outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine | ||
| Sweden | Swedish Information Systems Academy | Best doctoral dissertation in Sweden in the subject areas - informatics, information systems, data and information science or equivalent | ||
| Switzerland | International Balzan Prize Foundation | People or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man | ||
| Switzerland | Outstanding scientific work | |||
| United Kingdom | outstanding contributions to our understanding of the biological, chemical, engineering, mathematical, medical, or physical sciences relating directly to mass spectrometry | |||
| United Kingdom | 18 awards and medals to recognise achievement in the humanities and social sciences | |||
| United Kingdom | Outstanding achievement that has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study in ... any branch of the humanities and social sciences | |||
| United Kingdom | Special service to Biblical Studies | |||
| United Kingdom | Outstanding scholarly achievement in numismatics, Celtic studies and musicology | |||
| United Kingdom | Excellence and Impact in the field of Bioinorganic chemistry | |||
| United Kingdom | Academic achievement involving recent contributions to the study of prehistoric archaeology | |||
| United Kingdom | Notable scientific or industrial achievement in engineering or conspicuous service rendered to the advancement of science, engineering and technology or lifetime achievement in science, engineering or technology | |||
| United Kingdom | Development of ideas for the advancement of risk and security management in the UK | |||
| United Kingdom | Physiology | |||
| United Kingdom | Work in the field of classical studies and archaeology | |||
| United Kingdom | Young numerical analysts worldwide | |||
| United Kingdom | Significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in a field within the humanities and social sciences | |||
| United Kingdom | Distinction in the promotion of scientific research | |||
| United Kingdom | Outstanding researchers. Up to thirty awards across a range of academic disciplines | |||
| United Kingdom | Outstanding contributions to physiology | |||
| United Kingdom | Outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences | |||
| United Kingdom | Lecture given by a noted speaker on the subject of Computer Science | |||
| United Kingdom | Royal Economic Society, Financial Times | 1500-word short research paper on one of the economics topics announced by the host |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Distinguished research in biology[29] | |||
| Australia | Distinguished work in the natural sciences[30] | |||
| Australia | Merit-based scholarship programme[31] [32] | |||
| Australia | Outstanding achievement in the humanities by young Australian scholars currently engaged in research, and whose publications contribute towards an understanding of their discipline by the general public[33] |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | Academic Achievement Awards | Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH) | The annual graduation ceremony honors the academic achievements of students of Iranian heritage who will be graduating in that academic year[34] | |
| Iran | Khwarizmi International Award | Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) | The Khwarizmi International Award is a research award given annually by the President of Iran. The awardees, 10 senior researchers and 10 young researchers, are selected by the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST). It honors “individuals who have made outstanding achievements in research, innovation and invention, in fields related to science and technology”.[35] | |
| Iran | Young Scientist Award | Iran’s National Elites Foundation and Jamili Science and Technology Foundation | YSF has been annually held since 2017 to support the conversion of new ideas into business/products, support scholars, and strengthen the innovational and entrepreneurial spirit in young scientists. The festival is held in five areas of basic sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics & Computer Science, Biology, and Geology). YSF is held in two sections: Idea Section and Start-up Section. The primary objectives of YSF are supporting scholars in the fields of basic sciences, encouraging young inventors, innovators, researchers, and start-ups, creating a platform for scientific and technological cooperation between academia and industry, and creating opportunities and networks for the future of young scientists.[36] | |
| Türkiye | Türkiye Scholarships | Government of Türkiye | Türkiye Scholarships offers many different scholarship programs, including undergraduate, graduate and PhD scholarships, special scholarship programs such as success scholarship, art scholarships, and joint scholarship programs with prestigious international organizations. The scholarship covers tuition fee, monthly stipend, accommodation, health insurance, and a round-trip flight ticket.[37] |