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Top Universities 2016

Universities and university research organizations ranked by US patent count

Showing 1–50 of 985 universities

Rank University Patents Overall Company Rank
1 University of California 569 #69
2 MIT 300 #116
3 Stanford University 239 #142
#4 Tsinghua University 214 #156
#5 Caltech 208 #161
#6 University Of Texas System 196 #172
#7 WARF 175 #200
#8 The Johns Hopkins University 171 #204
#9 University of Michigan 157 #229
#10 Harvard University 132 #267
#11 Columbia University 125 #282
#12 Northwestern University 117 #302
#13 University of Pennsylvania 113 #312
#14 University Of South Florida 113 #311
#15 KFUPM 101 #340
#16 Cornell University 100 #342
#17 University of Florida 99 #345
#18 University Of Illinois 99 #348
#19 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University 98 #349
#20 New York University 98 #352
#21 Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 91 #380
#22 National Tsing Hua University 83 #421
#23 Duke University 81 #437
#24 University Of Pittsburgh 80 #442
#25 The University Of Tokyo 74 #480
#26 National Taiwan University 73 #490
#27 University of Minnesota 69 #514
#28 University Of Utah 68 #517
#29 University Of Massachusetts 63 #555
#30 Kyoto University 62 #569
#31 Ramot At Tel-Aviv University 61 #578
#32 University Of Southern California 61 #574
#33 King Saud University 60 #589
#34 Tohoku University 60 #584
#35 Korea University Research And Business Foundation 59 #594
#36 National Chiao Tung University 58 #618
#37 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 58 #617
#38 University Of Central Florida 58 #611
#39 Case Western Reserve University 54 #662
#40 Indiana University Research And Technology 54 #661
#41 North Carolina State University 54 #656
#42 University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 53 #672
#43 Yale University 53 #671
#44 Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University 52 #694
#45 National University Of Singapore 52 #692
#46 Washington University 51 #700
#47 Florida State University 49 #723
#48 Nanyang Technological University 49 #726
#49 Osaka University 48 #740
#50 University Of Washington 48 #743

Includes organizations flagged as universities or university-controlled research entities in the reviewed data/university_candidates.csv list.