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Top Universities 2021

Universities and university research organizations ranked by US patent count

Showing 1–50 of 1,093 universities

Rank University Patents Overall Company Rank
1 University of California 671 #59
2 MIT 394 #93
3 University Of Texas System 239 #161
#4 Harvard University 204 #189
#5 Stanford University 193 #203
#6 King Abdulaziz University 187 #215
#7 Caltech 174 #229
#8 Tsinghua University 163 #249
#9 University of Michigan 153 #268
#10 Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 152 #269
#11 The Johns Hopkins University 152 #270
#12 WARF 150 #276
#13 University of Pennsylvania 148 #279
#14 Northwestern University 146 #282
#15 University of Florida 143 #291
#16 University of Minnesota 129 #322
#17 Seoul National University R&Db Foundation 128 #324
#18 Cornell University 119 #356
#19 University Of Pittsburgh 115 #366
#20 Case Western Reserve University 102 #418
#21 King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology 102 #416
#22 KFUPM 101 #423
#23 University Of Illinois 101 #421
#24 University Of South Florida 98 #430
#25 Dalian University Of Technology 93 #452
#26 Duke University 93 #451
#27 Korea University Research And Business Foundation 91 #460
#28 Columbia University 90 #465
#29 University Of Arizona 88 #475
#30 Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University 85 #490
#31 Osaka University 82 #502
#32 University Of Massachusetts 80 #514
#33 City University Of Hong Kong 79 #518
#34 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 75 #545
#35 Yale University 73 #554
#36 Jiangnan University 70 #570
#37 The University Of Tokyo 69 #574
#38 Washington University 69 #573
#39 Vanderbilt University 68 #582
#40 University Of Washington 66 #605
#41 Kyoto University 65 #613
#42 Tohoku University 63 #632
#43 Florida International University Board Of Trustees 62 #643
#44 Oxford University 61 #649
#45 Princeton University 58 #684
#46 National Tsing Hua University 57 #709
#47 University Of Maryland, Baltimore 57 #715
#48 University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 56 #718
#49 Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 55 #736
#50 University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 55 #733

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