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Top Universities 2018

Universities and university research organizations ranked by US patent count

Showing 1–50 of 1,025 universities

Rank University Patents Overall Company Rank
1 University of California 579 #66
2 MIT 351 #106
3 Stanford University 235 #145
#4 KFUPM 220 #156
#5 University Of Texas System 209 #162
#6 Caltech 175 #200
#7 WARF 167 #211
#8 Harvard University 156 #232
#9 University of Michigan 154 #237
#10 The Johns Hopkins University 151 #243
#11 Tsinghua University 146 #251
#12 Northwestern University 136 #272
#13 University of Pennsylvania 124 #308
#14 Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 118 #319
#15 Columbia University 113 #336
#16 University of Minnesota 109 #350
#17 Duke University 105 #367
#18 Cornell University 101 #378
#19 University Of South Florida 101 #375
#20 University of Florida 100 #382
#21 Case Western Reserve University 99 #390
#22 University Of Illinois 95 #407
#23 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University 94 #410
#24 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 94 #413
#25 King Saud University 87 #440
#26 National Tsing Hua University 87 #448
#27 University Of Pittsburgh 83 #461
#28 The University Of Tokyo 81 #478
#29 New York University 75 #506
#30 Yale University 70 #541
#31 Korea University Research And Business Foundation 68 #564
#32 Seoul National University R&Db Foundation 68 #562
#33 Florida International University Board Of Trustees 66 #577
#34 University Of Massachusetts 66 #576
#35 Carnegie Mellon University 65 #585
#36 Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 63 #606
#37 Kyoto University 61 #618
#38 Vanderbilt University 61 #620
#39 National Taiwan University 60 #635
#40 University of Virginia 60 #633
#41 University Of Utah 58 #654
#42 Emory University 57 #678
#43 University Of Southern California 56 #683
#44 University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 55 #696
#45 Nanyang Technological University 54 #698
#46 National Chiao Tung University 51 #724
#47 University-Industry Cooperation Group Of Kyung Hee University 47 #793
#48 University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 47 #779
#49 Drexel University 46 #813
#50 Osaka University 46 #805

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