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Top Universities 2024

Universities and university research organizations ranked by US patent count

Showing 1–50 of 1,097 universities

Rank University Patents Overall Company Rank
1 King Faisal University 630 #58
2 University of California 537 #72
3 MIT 293 #135
#4 KFUPM 264 #153
#5 Zhejiang University 231 #179
#6 University Of Texas System 229 #180
#7 Northwestern University 203 #200
#8 Stanford University 186 #219
#9 Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 178 #224
#10 Harvard University 163 #247
#11 University of Michigan 155 #269
#12 The Johns Hopkins University 151 #273
#13 Caltech 142 #289
#14 Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University 141 #292
#15 Tsinghua University 133 #309
#16 WARF 131 #314
#17 Seoul National University R&Db Foundation 125 #331
#18 University of Florida 120 #346
#19 University of Pennsylvania 116 #358
#20 Duke University 112 #373
#21 Korea University Research And Business Foundation 112 #370
#22 Cornell University 105 #397
#23 University of Minnesota 105 #398
#24 University Of Pittsburgh 102 #412
#25 Columbia University 98 #423
#26 City University Of Hong Kong 96 #433
#27 University Of Arizona 91 #454
#28 University Of Massachusetts 84 #491
#29 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 83 #499
#30 University Of South Florida 83 #507
#31 Jiangnan University 82 #511
#32 Dalian University Of Technology 80 #524
#33 Soochow University 80 #519
#34 University Of Illinois 79 #535
#35 Washington University 79 #534
#36 Osaka University 78 #538
#37 Case Western Reserve University 74 #562
#38 North Carolina State University 74 #566
#39 University of Colorado, A Body Corporate 73 #580
#40 Carnegie Mellon University 71 #586
#41 Yale University 71 #596
#42 Shandong University 70 #607
#43 King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology 68 #624
#44 Southeast University 68 #621
#45 Huazhong University Of Science And Technology 67 #635
#46 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 67 #628
#47 University Of Central Florida 66 #640
#48 The University Of Tokyo 65 #653
#49 University Of Maryland, College Park 64 #658
#50 Jiangsu University 60 #700

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