Editing American Philosophical Society (section)

== Membership ==
Membership of the APS "honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields." It has about 1,000 elected members, comprising about 840 "resident" members (United States citizens or those working or living in the United States) and about 160 "international" members. {{As of|February 2025}} it had elected 5,890 members since its foundation.<ref name="elected">{{cite web |title=Elected Members |url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/elected-members |website=American Philosophical Society |access-date=July 12, 2021 |language=en |archive-date=February 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213164543/https://amphilsoc.org/members |url-status=live }}</ref>

Over that history, 220 members have been from [[Harvard University]], 117 from [[Princeton University]], 91 from [[Stanford University]], and 86 from the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. Ten academic institutions have each been affiliated with 50 or more members:<ref>{{cite web |title=American Philosophical Society Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search |website=American Philosophical Society |access-date=September 15, 2022 |archive-date=September 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220917083910/https://search.amphilsoc.org//memhist/search |url-status=live }}</ref>

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{| class="wikitable sortable defaultcenter"
! Institution
! data-sort-type="number" | Members (1743–2024)
|-
|-
| [[Harvard University|Harvard]] 
| 220
|-
| [[Princeton University|Princeton]]
| 117
|-
| [[Stanford University|Stanford]] 
| 91
|-
| [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]]
| 86
|-
| [[Columbia University|Columbia]]
| 76
|-
| [[University of Chicago|Chicago]]
| 73
|-
| [[University of Pennsylvania|Penn]]
| 67
|-
| [[Yale]]
| 63
|-
| [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]
| 58
|-
| [[New York University|NYU]] 
| 42
|}
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