Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foss, Lukas | Doctor of Music | 1991 | |
| Koussevitzky, Serge | Doctor of Music | 1938 | |
| Polisi, Joseph W. | Doctor of Music | 2014 | |
| Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich | Doctor of Music | 1980 | |
| Wonder, Stevie | Doctor of Music | 2017 | |
| McCartney, Paul | Doctor of Music | 2008 | |
| Stanley, Ralph | Doctor of Music | 2014 | |
| Price, Leontyne | Doctor of Music | 1979 | |
| Damrosch, Frank Heino | Doctor of Music | 1904 | |
| Kneisel, Franz | Doctor of Music | 1911 | |
| Paderewski, Ignace Jan | Doctor of Music | 1917 | |
| Hancock, Herbie | Doctor of Music | 2020 | |
| Ndour, Youssou | Doctor of Music | 2011 | |
| Norman, Jessye | Doctor of Music | 1990 | |
| Fleming, Renée | Doctor of Music | 2020 | |
| Ax, Emanuel | Doctor of Music | 2007 | |
| Goodman, Benny | Doctor of Music | 1982 | |
| Rostropovich, Mstislav | Doctor of Music | 1976 | |
| Rubinstein, Artur | Doctor of Music | 1962 | |
| Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornov | Doctor of Music | 1926 | |
| Ginastera, Alberto | Doctor of Music | 1968 | |
| Moore, Douglas S. | Doctor of Music | 1955 | |
| Watson, James Craig | Doctor of Philosophy | 1871 | |
| Safford, James Merrill | Doctor of Philosophy | 1866 | |
| McClintock, Barbara | Doctor of Science | 1982 | |
| Morgan, William W. | Doctor of Science | 1978 | |
| Burn, Joshua H. | Doctor of Science | 1957 | |
| Mavalvala, Nergis | Doctor of Science | 2021 | |
| Merrifield, Robert B. | Doctor of Science | 1971 | |
| Loewi, Otto | Doctor of Science | 1951 | |
| Hoffmann, Roald | Doctor of Science | 1980 | |
| Collins, Francis S. | Doctor of Science | 1992 | |
| Langer, Robert | Doctor of Science | 2007 | |
| van Slyke, Donald Dexter | Doctor of Science | 1925 | |
| Stratton, Samuel Wesley | Doctor of Science | 1919 | |
| Noyes, Arthur Amos | Doctor of Science | 1913 | |
| Baltimore, David | Doctor of Science | 2004 | |
| Coons, Albert H. | Doctor of Science | 1961 | |
| Stead, Jr., Eugene A. | Doctor of Science | 1971 | |
| Wu, Chien-Shiung | Doctor of Science | 1967 | |
| Lederberg, Joshua | Doctor of Science | 1960 | |
| Dana, Samuel Trask | Doctor of Science | 1953 | |
| Coe, Wesley Roswell | Doctor of Science | 1947 | |
| Merton, Robert K. | Doctor of Science | 1968 | |
| Wilson, Edward O. | Doctor of Science | 1998 | |
| Parr, Albert Eide | Doctor of Science | 1946 | |
| Carty, John Joseph | Doctor of Science | 1922 | |
| Flexner, Simon | Doctor of Science | 1910 | |
| Berliner, Robert W. | Doctor of Science | 1973 | |
| Varmus, Dr. Harold E. | Doctor of Science | 2001 |