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Top Universities 2023

Universities and university research organizations ranked by US patent count

Showing 1–50 of 1,096 universities

Rank University Patents Overall Company Rank
1 University of California 548 #68
2 MIT 362 #102
3 University Of Texas System 229 #165
#4 KFUPM 212 #186
#5 Stanford University 186 #202
#6 Harvard University 185 #203
#7 Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 167 #229
#8 Northwestern University 154 #252
#9 Caltech 153 #253
#10 Zhejiang University 152 #254
#11 University of Florida 143 #271
#12 Tsinghua University 140 #277
#13 University of Michigan 136 #291
#14 The Johns Hopkins University 135 #297
#15 WARF 135 #294
#16 Seoul National University R&Db Foundation 117 #333
#17 University of Pennsylvania 114 #340
#18 University Of Pittsburgh 112 #347
#19 King Faisal University 107 #363
#20 Korea University Research And Business Foundation 105 #369
#21 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 103 #374
#22 Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University 101 #382
#23 University of Minnesota 98 #398
#24 King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology 97 #400
#25 Cornell University 93 #419
#26 Duke University 92 #420
#27 The University Of Tokyo 89 #434
#28 University Of South Florida 89 #432
#29 University Of Illinois 86 #455
#30 Case Western Reserve University 77 #495
#31 University Of Washington 77 #502
#32 Columbia University 75 #517
#33 Dalian University Of Technology 75 #515
#34 Osaka University 75 #518
#35 University Of Massachusetts 73 #527
#36 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University 71 #545
#37 Jiangnan University 71 #542
#38 City University Of Hong Kong 69 #556
#39 Southwest Petroleum University 64 #605
#40 Carnegie Mellon University 63 #621
#41 North Carolina State University 62 #638
#42 Texas A&M University System 62 #634
#43 Huazhong University Of Science And Technology 61 #644
#44 University Of Arizona 60 #652
#45 Jiangsu University 59 #663
#46 University Of Southern California 59 #662
#47 Southeast University 57 #682
#48 Yale University 57 #684
#49 University Of Central Florida 56 #685
#50 Vanderbilt University 56 #686

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