Woodward also received over twenty honorary degrees, including honorary doctorates from the following universities:
* Wesleyan University in 1945;
* Harvard University in 1957;
* University of Cambridge in 1964;
* Brandeis University in 1965;
* Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa in 1966;
* University of Western Ontario in Canada in 1968;
* University of Louvain in Belgium, 1970.