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The world’s most innovative universities

US institutions top the inaugural Reuters Top 100 Most Innovative Universities table

September 16, 2015
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Stanford University has topped the Reuters Top 100 Most Innovative Universities 2015 rankings tables, a new list of the world's most innovative institutions

Compare these rankings with the THE World University Rankings 2014-15


Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard have topped a new ranking of the most innovative universities.

The inaugural Top 100 Most Innovative Universities ranking from has been revealed following the publication of four top-15 tables based on innovation from Times 中国A片.

The US comes out top of Reuters’ table of 100 institutions, taking nine of the top 10 positions. The sole non-US institution is Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 10th?place.

Imperial College London is the highest-ranked UK university in the list in 11th?place, followed by the University of Cambridge in 25th?and the?University of Oxford in 40th.??

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The ranking aims to identify which institutions contribute the most to science and technology and have the greatest impact on the global economy. It is based on 10 patent and research-related metrics, which have been compiled using proprietary data and analysis tools from the Intellectual Property and Science division of Thomson Reuters.

Elsewhere in Europe, Switzerland is a stand-out performer. With three universities on the list and a population of just over 8 million, it has more top 100 innovative universities per capita than any other country in the world. Its top institution, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, sits in 27th?place. ?

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Japan is home to nine of the universities on the list – more than any other country except the US. Osaka University, its highest-ranked institution, is at number 18.

ellie.bothwell@tesglobal.com


Reuters Top 100 Most Innovative Universities 2015 results

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

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