Here Are The 100 Most Innovative Universities In The World, 2018
Located in Palo Alto, California, Stanford Stanford has been named the most innovative universities in the world, according to Reuters’ fourth-annual ranking of the 100 most innovative colleges. It is Stanford’s fourth year running on the most-innovative list. Stanford filed 691 patents between 2011 and 2016. 41.5% of those were subsequently granted.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge ranked No. 2 on the list – filed 1,480 patents between 2011 and 2016. 45% were subsequently granted. Notable alumni include Charles Koch, the co-owner of Koch Industries, and John Thain, chairman, and CEO of the CIT Group.
US universities continue to stand out as the most innovative in the world – 8 of the top ten on the newly released 2018 list— and 46 of the top 100 — are located in the US.
Six of the schools from last year’s top 10 are there again (the University of Minnesota System dropped from 8 to 27, Vanderbilt dropped from 10 to 11). The list identifies and ranks the educational institutions by comparing factors like the number of research papers published and how many patent filings a school made in the last year.
The 100 most innovative universities in the world, 2018:
| Rank | University | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford University | US |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | US |
| 3 | Harvard University | US |
| 4 | University of Pennsylvania | US |
| 5 | University of Washington | US |
| 6 | University of Texas System | US |
| 7 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 8 | Imperial College London | UK |
| 9 | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | US |
| 10 | Vanderbilt University | US |
| 11 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) | South Korea |
| 12 | Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
| 13 | Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea |
| 14 | University of California System | US |
| 15 | University of Southern California | US |
| 16 | Cornell University | US |
| 17 | Duke University | US |
| 18 | University of Cambridge | UK |
| 19 | Johns Hopkins University | US |
| 20 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 21 | California Institute of Technology | US |
| 22 | Osaka University | Japan |
| 23 | University of Michigan System | US |
| 24 | Northwestern University | US |
| 25 | University of Wisconsin System | US |
| 26 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 27 | University of Minnesota System | US |
| 28 | University of Illinois System | US |
| 29 | Georgia Institute of Technology | US |
| 30 | University of Utah | US |
| 31 | University of Erlangen Nuremberg | Germany |
| 32 | Ohio State University | US |
| 33 | Columbia University | US |
| 34 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 35 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 36 | Tohoku University | Japan |
| 37 | University of Pittsburgh | US |
| 38 | Yale University | US |
| 39 | Sungkyunkwan University | South Korea |
| 40 | University of Oxford | UK |
| 41 | University of Colorado System | US |
| 42 | Tufts University | US |
| 43 | Baylor College of Medicine | US |
| 44 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 45 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 46 | Kyushu University | Japan |
| 47 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
| 48 | University College London | UK |
| 49 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| 50 | Purdue University System | US |
| 51 | University of Chicago | US |
| 52 | Oregon Health & Science University | US |
| 53 | University of Manchester | UK |
| 54 | Indiana University System | US |
| 55 | University of Montpellier | France |
| 56 | University of Munich | Germany |
| 57 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| 58 | Emory University | US |
| 59 | Peking University | China |
| 60 | Sorbonne University | France |
| 61 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 62 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 63 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 64 | Princeton University | US |
| 65 | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| 66 | Hanyang University | South Korea |
| 67 | Case Western Reserve University | US |
| 68 | Yonsei University | South Korea |
| 69 | Rutgers State University New Brunswick | US |
| 70 | Boston University | US |
| 71 | University of Massachusetts System | US |
| 72 | Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz | Germany |
| 73 | Wake Forest University | US |
| 74 | Keio University | Japan |
| 75 | Korea University | South Korea |
| 76 | University of Florida | US |
| 77 | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| 78 | University of Paris Descartes - Paris 5 | France |
| 79 | Hebrew University of Jeruslem | Israel |
| 80 | University of Cincinnati | US |
| 81 | University of Freiburg | Germany |
| 82 | Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg | Germany |
| 83 | State University of New York System | US |
| 84 | University of Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 | France |
| 85 | University of Virginia | US |
| 86 | Dresden University of Technology | Germany |
| 87 | University of Iowa | US |
| 88 | Ghent University | Belgium |
| 89 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| 90 | Hokkaido University | Japan |
| 91 | Tel Aviv University | Israel |
| 92 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
| 93 | Zhejiang University | China |
| 94 | Fudan University | China |
| 95 | University of Miami | US |
| 96 | Arizona State University | US |
| 97 | University of Paris Sud - Paris 11 | France |
| 98 | Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology | South Korea |
| 99 | Nagoya University | Japan |
| 100 | Free University of Berlin | Germany |
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