| Institution | National Rank | World Rank | Score |
| École normale supérieure – Paris | 2 | 39 | 57.30 |
Throughout its history, a sizeable number of École normale supérieure alumni, have become notable in many varied fields, both academic and otherwise, ranging from Louis Pasteur, the chemist and microbiologist famed for inventing pasteurisation, to philologist Georges Dumézil, novelist Julien Gracq and socialist Prime Minister Léon Blum.