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Top Universities 2017

Universities and university research organizations ranked by US patent count

Showing 1–50 of 1,004 universities

Rank University Patents Overall Company Rank
1 University of California 597 #68
2 MIT 346 #111
3 University Of Texas System 240 #157
#4 Stanford University 222 #164
#5 Tsinghua University 209 #173
#6 KFUPM 182 #201
#7 Harvard University 181 #205
#8 The Johns Hopkins University 175 #215
#9 WARF 168 #225
#10 Caltech 163 #234
#11 University of Michigan 153 #242
#12 Northwestern University 147 #261
#13 University Of South Florida 124 #299
#14 University of Florida 120 #311
#15 Cornell University 119 #315
#16 University of Pennsylvania 114 #327
#17 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University 112 #333
#18 Columbia University 103 #366
#19 University Of Pittsburgh 103 #365
#20 Duke University 96 #395
#21 New York University 96 #394
#22 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 95 #399
#23 University Of Illinois 94 #409
#24 National Tsing Hua University 89 #427
#25 University of Minnesota 88 #437
#26 The University Of Tokyo 87 #439
#27 Korea University Research And Business Foundation 82 #466
#28 King Saud University 73 #531
#29 National Taiwan University 72 #533
#30 University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 71 #540
#31 Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 69 #559
#32 University Of Southern California 67 #581
#33 University Of Utah 66 #583
#34 Vanderbilt University 64 #607
#35 Yale University 64 #608
#36 Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 63 #616
#37 Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University 62 #633
#38 Kyoto University 60 #652
#39 University Of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization 58 #673
#40 Case Western Reserve University 57 #692
#41 Texas A&M University System 57 #684
#42 University Of Massachusetts 57 #682
#43 Osaka University 54 #737
#44 North Carolina State University 53 #745
#45 Nanyang Technological University 52 #767
#46 Carnegie Mellon University 51 #779
#47 Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl) 51 #778
#48 Seoul National University R&Db Foundation 51 #773
#49 National Chiao Tung University 50 #785
#50 Indiana University Research And Technology 48 #817

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