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Top Universities 2019

Universities and university research organizations ranked by US patent count

Showing 1–50 of 1,087 universities

Rank University Patents Overall Company Rank
1 University of California 697 #60
2 MIT 400 #108
3 University Of Texas System 314 #136
#4 KFUPM 237 #174
#5 Stanford University 234 #175
#6 Tsinghua University 210 #189
#7 Caltech 186 #217
#8 Northwestern University 184 #224
#9 Harvard University 183 #226
#10 University of Michigan 179 #233
#11 The Johns Hopkins University 178 #240
#12 WARF 170 #254
#13 Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 129 #339
#14 University of Florida 125 #350
#15 University of Minnesota 118 #370
#16 University Of South Florida 117 #371
#17 The University Of Tokyo 115 #375
#18 Columbia University 109 #398
#19 Cornell University 108 #402
#20 University of Pennsylvania 108 #404
#21 Seoul National University R&Db Foundation 105 #419
#22 University Of Illinois 104 #427
#23 Duke University 100 #443
#24 Case Western Reserve University 96 #460
#25 Korea University Research And Business Foundation 94 #473
#26 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University 92 #486
#27 King Saud University 89 #503
#28 University Of Pittsburgh 89 #498
#29 University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 88 #508
#30 University Of Massachusetts 88 #510
#31 University Of Utah 87 #513
#32 National Tsing Hua University 79 #568
#33 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 79 #573
#34 King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology 76 #591
#35 Yale University 75 #595
#36 Vanderbilt University 74 #607
#37 New York University 72 #626
#38 University Of Southern California 72 #624
#39 University Of Arizona 69 #645
#40 Osaka University 64 #684
#41 Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University 63 #699
#42 Michigan State University 62 #708
#43 Florida International University Board Of Trustees 61 #731
#44 Kyoto University 61 #722
#45 National Taiwan University 61 #724
#46 Nanyang Technological University 60 #734
#47 Texas A&M University System 60 #744
#48 University of Virginia 60 #746
#49 Florida State University 59 #749
#50 Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl) 57 #769

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