Top Universities by Patents 2025

Showing 1–50 of 1,025 universities

Rank	University	Patents	Overall Company Rank
1	University of California	435	#59
2	MIT	231	#120
3	KFUPM	201	#141
#4	Northwestern University	173	#172
#5	University Of Texas System	173	#171
#6	Zhejiang University	164	#182
#7	Stanford University	143	#218
#8	Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University	139	#226
#9	University of Michigan	130	#238
#10	Harvard University	125	#246
#11	Seoul National University R&Db Foundation	123	#255
#12	The Johns Hopkins University	114	#275
#13	University of Florida	109	#292
#14	Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University	107	#299
#15	Caltech	103	#314
#16	Korea University Research And Business Foundation	103	#312
#17	WARF	101	#320
#18	Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University	98	#329
#19	Cornell University	88	#361
#20	University Of Washington	88	#360
#21	University of Pennsylvania	86	#368
#22	Tsinghua University	85	#374
#23	University Of Pittsburgh	84	#384
#24	Duke University	77	#426
#25	King Saud University	76	#433
#26	University Of Illinois	73	#445
#27	University of Minnesota	70	#462
#28	The University Of Tokyo	68	#471
#29	Shandong University	65	#497
#30	University Of Arizona	65	#496
#31	University of Colorado, A Body Corporate	62	#520
#32	City University Of Hong Kong	61	#529
#33	Huazhong University Of Science And Technology	59	#541
#34	University Of Massachusetts	59	#535
#35	Carnegie Mellon University	57	#566
#36	Columbia University	56	#575
#37	Osaka University	56	#570
#38	Jiangnan University	55	#591
#39	Soochow University	55	#586
#40	Case Western Reserve University	54	#595
#41	Texas A&M University System	54	#592
#42	National Taiwan University	53	#611
#43	Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey	53	#606
#44	The University Of Chicago	52	#624
#45	University Of South Florida	52	#625
#46	Yale University	52	#626
#47	Emory University	51	#640
#48	University of Virginia	51	#631
#49	Washington University	50	#654
#50	King Faisal University	49	#661

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Top Universities 2025