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Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Showing 1–50 of 1,939 universities

Rank University Patents Overall Company Rank
1 University of California 15,272 #61
2 MIT 8,189 #97
3 University Of Texas System 5,102 #160
#4 Caltech 4,474 #186
#5 Stanford University 4,417 #188
#6 WARF 4,022 #204
#7 University of Michigan 3,306 #236
#8 The Johns Hopkins University 3,210 #242
#9 Harvard University 2,949 #260
#10 Tsinghua University 2,912 #266
#11 Northwestern University 2,832 #275
#12 University of Pennsylvania 2,565 #313
#13 Columbia University 2,382 #351
#14 KFUPM 2,288 #372
#15 University of Minnesota 2,277 #373
#16 University of Florida 2,216 #385
#17 Duke University 2,009 #424
#18 University Of Illinois 2,005 #425
#19 University Of South Florida 1,902 #442
#20 University Of Washington 1,602 #516
#21 University Of Southern California 1,562 #528
#22 New York University 1,499 #547
#23 University Of Pittsburgh 1,466 #568
#24 North Carolina State University 1,430 #583
#25 Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State University 1,389 #596
#26 University Of Utah 1,380 #599
#27 University Of Massachusetts 1,371 #604
#28 Yale University 1,343 #613
#29 Cornell University 1,328 #623
#30 Iowa State University 1,326 #624
#31 National Tsing Hua University 1,299 #639
#32 National Taiwan University 1,293 #643
#33 Case Western Reserve University 1,285 #647
#34 Washington University 1,260 #658
#35 The University Of Tokyo 1,255 #663
#36 Texas A&M University System 1,190 #710
#37 University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill 1,186 #711
#38 Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey 1,158 #730
#39 Vanderbilt University 1,156 #731
#40 Princeton University 1,084 #793
#41 Carnegie Mellon University 1,076 #801
#42 Seoul National University R&Db Foundation 1,057 #811
#43 Korea University Research And Business Foundation 1,045 #823
#44 University Of Central Florida 1,033 #832
#45 Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University 1,025 #842
#46 Emory University 990 #868
#47 University Of Rochester 949 #901
#48 University Of British Columbia 932 #916
#49 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 924 #927
#50 National Chiao Tung University 920 #931

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