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Top Universities 2022

Universities and university research organizations ranked by US patent count

Showing 1–50 of 1,089 universities

Rank University Patents Overall Company Rank
1 University of California 566 #66
2 MIT 337 #109
3 KFUPM 232 #176
#4 University Of Texas System 220 #184
#5 Tsinghua University 184 #226
#6 Stanford University 179 #230
#7 Harvard University 178 #232
#8 King Abdulaziz University 170 #242
#9 Caltech 163 #258
#10 Northwestern University 161 #263
#11 Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 155 #270
#12 The Johns Hopkins University 153 #272
#13 University of Michigan 143 #290
#14 University of Florida 135 #309
#15 WARF 128 #329
#16 Duke University 125 #336
#17 Seoul National University R&Db Foundation 124 #340
#18 Zhejiang University 113 #372
#19 University of Pennsylvania 105 #393
#20 University Of Pittsburgh 105 #394
#21 Dalian University Of Technology 104 #396
#22 Cornell University 103 #399
#23 University of Minnesota 102 #401
#24 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 93 #432
#25 University Of Massachusetts 92 #438
#26 Case Western Reserve University 89 #453
#27 University Of Arizona 86 #468
#28 King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology 85 #484
#29 University Of South Florida 85 #480
#30 University Of Illinois 82 #492
#31 Columbia University 80 #504
#32 Korea University Research And Business Foundation 80 #507
#33 City University Of Hong Kong 77 #524
#34 The University Of Tokyo 77 #522
#35 Osaka University 75 #537
#36 Jiangsu University 73 #551
#37 University Of Southern California 73 #558
#38 National Tsing Hua University 71 #571
#39 Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University 69 #591
#40 Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 69 #589
#41 Jiangnan University 68 #594
#42 University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 67 #607
#43 Huazhong University Of Science And Technology 65 #632
#44 North Carolina State University 65 #628
#45 South China University Of Technology 63 #650
#46 Yale University 61 #662
#47 Florida International University Board Of Trustees 60 #670
#48 National Taiwan University 60 #667
#49 University Of Central Florida 60 #671
#50 University Of Washington 60 #672

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