These Are The 100 Most Innovative Colleges And Universities In The World For 2017 : Stanford, MIT, Harvard, UPenn, KU Leuven Tops

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan DhirajCEO AdvisorySeptember 29, 2017October 19, 2018

Stanford University has been named as the world’s most innovative university, according to a Reuters analysis of top 100 educational institutions around the globe. And Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was No. 2 on Reuters’ list, followed by Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and Belgium’s KU Leuven.

The 2017 rankings placed South Korea’s KAIST in 6th ahead of the University of Washington into 7th; while University of Michigan System ranked 8th, and University of Texas System 9th.

Overall, among the top 12 universities, the 10th, 11th, and 12th positions are held by the Vanderbilt University, Duke University, and the University of California System — which has campuses in Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Davis, Irvine, Santa Cruz, Riverside, and Merced .

Here are the world’s most innovative colleges and universities in 2017:

Rank	University	Country
1	Stanford University	US
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	US
3	Harvard University	US
4	University of Pennsylvania	US
5	KU Leuven	Belgium
6	KAIST	South Korea
7	University of Washington	US
8	University of Michigan System	US
9	University of Texas System	US
10	Vanderbilt University	US
11	Duke University	USA
12	University of California System	USA
13	Northwestern University	USA
14	Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea
15	Imperial College London	UK
16	Cornell University	USA
17	California Institute of Technology	USA
18	University of Wisconsin System	USA
19	Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne	Switzerland
20	University of Southern California	USA
21	University of Tokyo	Japan
22	Johns Hopkins University	US
23	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
24	Seoul National University	South Korea
25	University of Illinois System	US
26	University of Cambridge	UK
27	Indiana University System	US
28	Pierre & Marie Curie University - Paris 6	France
29	University of Colorado System	US
30	University of Pittsburgh	US
31	University of Oxford	UK
32	Purdue University System	US
33	University of Chicago	US
34	Osaka University	Japan
35	University of North Carolina System	US
36	Princeton University	US
37	Ohio State University	US
38	Tufts University	US
39	Tohoku University	Japan
40	Technical University of Munich	Germany
41	Columbia University	US
42	Kyoto University	Japan
43	Yale University	US
44	Baylor College of Medicine	US
45	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
46	University of Toronto	Canada
47	University of Minnesota System	US
48	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea
49	University of Utah	US
50	University of Erlangen Nuremberg	Germany
51	Tsinghua University	China
52	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sina	US
53	Oregon Health & Science University	US
54	Emory University	US
55	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
56	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
57	University of Massachusetts System	US
58	University of British Columbia	Canada
59	University of Zurich	Switzerland
60	Peking University	China
61	Hanyang University	South Korea
62	University of Montpellier	France
63	Boston University	US
64	University of Munich	Germany
65	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
66	University of Florida	US
67	University College London	UK
68	Kyushu University	Japan
69	Yonsei University	South Korea
70	National University of Singapore	Singapore
71	State University of New York System	US
72	Case Western Reserve University	US
73	Keio University	Japan
74	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
75	Ghent University	Belgium
76	Florida State University	US
77	Korea University	South Korea
78	Rutgers State University	US
79	University of Rochester	US
80	University of Manchester	UK
81	University of Freiburg	Germany
82	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
83	Gwangju Institute of Science & Technolog	South Korea
84	Leiden University	Netherlands
85	Arizona State University	US
86	Free University of Berlin	Germany
87	University of Claude Bernard - Lyon 1	France
88	Tel Aviv University	Israel
89	Technion Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
90	University of Paris Descartes - Paris 5	France
91	Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz	Germany
92	Rice University	US
93	University of Paris Sud - Paris 11	France
94	University of Iowa	US
95	Hokkaido University	Japan
96	University of Virginia	US
97	Dresden University of Technology	Germany
98	Dresden University of Technology	US
99	Wake Forest University	US
100	Zhejiang University	China

Stanford again tops world’s most innovative universities list. The list ranks the colleges and universities doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies, and help drive the global economy.

The ranking comes on the heels of the Times Higher Education world university ranking, which placed the Stanford at No. 3 and CEOWORLD magazine ranked Stanford as 3rd best universities for graduate employability for 2017.

#1 in the best medical and pharmacy schools in the world, 2017.
#3 in world’s best business schools for 2017 (Stanford’s Graduate School of Business).
#21 in world’s best universities for Oil, Gas, and Petroleum engineering in 2017 (Department of Energy Resources Engineering at the Stanford University).
#2 in the 2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities from the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
#5 in the 2018 National Universities by U.S. News and World Report rankings.

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Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is a publishing executive and economist who is the CEO and editor-in-chief of The CEOWORLD magazine, one of the world’s most influential and recognized global news publications. Additionally, he serves as the chair of the advisory board for the CEOWORLD magazine. He received his Ph.D. in Finance and Banking from the European Global School, Paris, France. He earned his Doctoral Degree in Chartered Accountancy from the European International University Paris, France, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design (KNUTD), Ukraine. Dr. Amarendra also holds a Master of Business Administration degree in International Relations and Affairs from the American University of Athens, Alabama, United States.

Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is CEO and editor-in-chief of CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter.

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