https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFxYyXGMfZMChomsky has received many honorary degrees from universities around the world, including the following:
* University of London
* University of Chicago
* Loyola University of Chicago
* Swarthmore College
* Delhi University
* Bard College
* University of Massachusetts
* University of Pennsylvania
* Georgetown University
* Amherst College
* Cambridge University
* University of Buenos Aires
* McGill University
* Universitat Rovira i Virgili
* Columbia University
* Villanova University
* University of Connecticut
* University of Maine
* Scuola Normale Superiore
* University of Western Ontario
* University of Toronto
* Harvard University
* Universidad de Chile
* University of Bologna
* Universidad de la Frontera
* University of Calcutta
* Universidad Nacional de Colombia
* Vrije Universiteit Brussel
* Santo Domingo Institute of Technology
* Uppsala University
* University of Athens
* University of Cyprus
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. In addition, he is a member of other professional and learned societies in the United States and abroad, and is a recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, the Helmholtz Medal, the Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award, the Ben Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science, and others.[54] He is twice winner of The Orwell Award, granted by The National Council of Teachers of English for "Distinguished Contributions to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language"
He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Department of Social Sciences.
In 2005, Chomsky received an honorary fellowship from the Literary and Historical Society.
In 2007, Chomsky received The Uppsala University (Sweden) Honorary Doctor's degree in commemoration of Carolus Linnaeus.
In February 2008, he received the President's Medal from the Literary and Debating Society of the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Chomsky was voted the leading living public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll conducted by the British magazine Prospect. He reacted, saying "I don't pay a lot of attention to polls".[58] In a list compiled by the magazine New Statesman in 2006, he was voted seventh in the list of "Heroes of our time".