Cream Of The Crop: The World’s Most Innovative Universities
The World’s Most Innovative Universities that topped the Reuters’ ranking in the fifth consecutive year is Stanford University, MIT and Harvard. This is a list which identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries.
Year after year, Stanford continues to hold onto its top spot because it produces a steady stream of innovations that are cited by other researchers in private academia industry, it is a key measure which focuses in the ranking of the most innovative universities in the world, which was compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, based on proprietary data and analysis including patent filings and research paper citations.
Among the last year’s 10 highest-ranked universities, 8 remained in the top 10, and 18 of the top 20. The highest-ranked university outside the US, Belgium’s KU Leuven (#7), is almost 600-year old institution that maintains one of the largest independent research and development organisations on the planet. Pohang University of Science & Technology or POSTECH is the highest-ranked university in Asia. It is an institution that was established in 1986 by South Korean steel company POSCO, known for its unique ties to industry.
The World’s Most Innovative Universities
Overall, the list continues to be dominated by the United States, with 46 universities in the top 100. Germany climbs second best performing country with nine universities featured. The third best is France, with eight universities on the list; Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom have six each; China has four; the Netherlands and Switzerland have three; Belgium, Canada, Israel and Singapore have two, and Denmark has one. Considered on a regional basis, North America has 48 universities in the top 100, Europe has 32 (up five from last year), Asia has 18 (down five), and the Middle East has two. There are no universities in the top 100 located in Africa, South America or Oceania.
This year, France showed the biggest improvement, with all its universities making big gains, including new entrants Aix-Marseille Université (#96) and Sorbonne Université (#56). In contrast, Japanese universities continue to lose ground on the global ranking: in 2019, three Japanese universities dropped off the list, and the remaining institutions fell an average of 16 places.
The Reuters Top 100: The World’s Most Innovative UniversitiesÂ
Rank.           Name.                                             Country
1                  Stanford University                                 USA
2.                Massachusetts Institute of Technology                 USA
3.                Harvard University                                  USA
4.                University of Pennsylvania                           USA
5.                University of Washington                            USA
6.                University of North Carolina Chapel Hill               USA
7.                KU Leuven                                         Belgium
8.                University of Southern California                     USA
9.                Cornell University                                  USA
10.              Imperial College London                            UK
11.        University of Texas System                           USA
12.        Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) South Korea
13.       University of California System                       USA
14.       University of Erlangen Nuremberg.                   Germany
15.        Johns Hopkins University                            USA
16.        California Institute of Technology                     USA
17.        EPFL – Swiss Federal lnstitute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland
18.        University of Cambridge                             UK
19.        Vanderbilt University                                USA
20.        Yale University.                                     USA
21.        University of Michigan System                       USA
22.        University of Minnesota System                      USA
23        Duke University                                     USA
24.        Northwestern University                             USA
25.        University of Illinois System                          USA
26.       University of Tokyo                                   Japan
27.       University of Toronto                                 Canada
28.       Columbia University                                   USA
29.       Seoul National University                               South Korea
30.       Georgia Institute of Technology                          USA
31.       University College London                              UK
32.       University of Oxford                                    UK
33.       University of Colorado System                           USA
34.       Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)  South Korea
35.       Osaka University                                        Japan
36.       University of Wisconsin System                           USA
37.       Baylor College of Medicine                                USA
38.       University of Utah                                        USA
39.       University of Chicago                                     USA
40.       ETH Zurich                                              Switzerland
41.       Tsinghua University                                      China
42.       Oregon Health & Science University                        USA
43.       Kyoto University                                          Japan
44.       University of Montpellier                                  France
45.       Sungkyunkwan University                                 South Korea
46.       Technical University of Munich                             Germany
47.       Case Western Reserve University                            USA
48.       Technical University of Denmark                            Denmark
49.       University of Manchester                                   UK
50.       Emory University                                           USA
51.       University of Zurich                                        Switzerland
52.       University of Pittsburgh                                     USA
53.       University of British Columbia                               Canada
54.       Ohio State University                                        USA
55.       Peking University                                           China
56.       Sorbonne University                                        France
57.       Kyushu University                                           Japan
58.       National University of Singapore                              Singapore
59.       Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg                           Germany
60.       Delft University of Technology                                 Netherlands
61.       Tohoku University                                            Japan
62.       Purdue University System                                      USA
63.       University of Massachusetts System                            USA
64.        Universite Paris Sud – Paris 11                                France
65.        Princeton University                                          USA
66.        University of Paris Descartes                                   France
67.       Nanyang Technological University                              Singapore
68.       Tufts University                                               USA
69.       State University of New York System                            USA
70.       Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz                        Germany
71.       Leiden University                                             Netherlands
72.       Hanyang UniversitySouth                                      Korea
73.        Rutgers State University New Brunswick                        USA
74.        Tokyo Institute of Technology                                  Japan
75.        University of Munich                                         Germany
76.        Yonsei University                                             South Korea
77.        Universite Claude Bernard – Lyon 1                             France
78.        Indiana University System                                      USA
79.        Dresden University of Technology                               Germany
80.        University of Bordeaux                                        France
81.        University of Iowa                                             USA
82.        University of Freiburg                                         Germany
83.        Boston University                                              USA
84.        University System of Maryland                                  USA
85.        Wake Forest University                                         USA
86.        Zhejiang University                                            China
87.       Carnegie Mellon University                                     USA
88.        Hebrew University of Jerusalem                                Israel
89.        RWTH Aachen University                                       Germany
90.        University of Connecticut                                       USA
91.        Grenoble Alpes University                                      France
92.       University of Florida                                            USA
93.       Utrecht University                                              Netherlands
94.       Technical University of Berlin                                    Germany
95.       Tel Aviv University                                              Israel
96.       University of Aix-Marseille                                       France
97.       University of Virginia                                            USA
98.       Ghent University                                                Belgium
99.       Kings College London                                            UK
100.      Shanghai Jiao Tong University                                     China
