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Top Universities 2020

Universities and university research organizations ranked by US patent count

Showing 1–50 of 1,130 universities

Rank University Patents Overall Company Rank
1 University of California 677 #63
2 MIT 444 #91
3 Stanford University 248 #165
#4 University Of Texas System 237 #174
#5 The Johns Hopkins University 198 #209
#6 Harvard University 191 #220
#7 Northwestern University 191 #219
#8 Tsinghua University 190 #223
#9 Caltech 172 #249
#10 WARF 170 #256
#11 University of Michigan 162 #265
#12 University of Florida 155 #275
#13 University of Minnesota 136 #321
#14 Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 134 #326
#15 KFUPM 134 #327
#16 University Of South Florida 131 #338
#17 University of Pennsylvania 129 #347
#18 Seoul National University R&Db Foundation 113 #401
#19 University Of Pittsburgh 111 #405
#20 Columbia University 110 #412
#21 Case Western Reserve University 108 #417
#22 Cornell University 106 #424
#23 Korea University Research And Business Foundation 105 #428
#24 The University Of Tokyo 105 #426
#25 Duke University 98 #466
#26 University Of Massachusetts 98 #463
#27 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 96 #475
#28 University Of Illinois 93 #487
#29 King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology 91 #495
#30 University Of Arizona 87 #514
#31 University Of Washington 82 #536
#32 Vanderbilt University 80 #550
#33 Yale University 74 #590
#34 New York University 73 #592
#35 Tohoku University 73 #595
#36 King Abdulaziz University 72 #604
#37 Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 72 #600
#38 University-Industry Cooperation Group Of Kyung Hee University 72 #598
#39 University Of Southern California 71 #609
#40 Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University 67 #639
#41 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University 65 #663
#42 Osaka University 65 #661
#43 Washington University 65 #654
#44 King Saud University 63 #680
#45 National Tsing Hua University 63 #684
#46 Princeton University 60 #718
#47 Texas A&M University System 60 #719
#48 University Of British Columbia 60 #720
#49 Florida International University Board Of Trustees 59 #733
#50 University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 59 #737

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