Thomson Reuters : Stanford, MIT and Harvard top the third annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the most innovative universities | Thomson Reuters

NEW YORK - Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University top the third annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the world's most innovative universities. The Reuters Top 100 aims to identify and rank the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies, and power new markets and industries. Compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, the ranking is based on proprietary data and analysis of numerous indicators including patent filings and research paper citations.

The most innovative university in the world, for the third consecutive year, is Stanford University. Located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Stanford has long played a key role in the development of our modern networked world: A Stanford professor designed the basic communication standard for the Internet, and university alumni founded some of the biggest tech companies in the world, including Google, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Netflix. Today the university continues to consistently produce original research and technology. Innovations that originate at Stanford are frequently cited by researchers elsewhere in academia and in private industry.

Overall, the top ranks of the World's Most Innovative Universities remain largely unchanged, with nine of last year's 10 highest-ranked universities remaining in the top 10. And the most elite institutions are almost all large, well-established universities based in the United States and Western Europe. Rounding out the top three are MIT and Harvard, which have held onto their respective 2nd and 3rd place rankings for the past three years. In fourth place is the University of Pennsylvania, which climbed four spots from #8 last year. The highest ranked university outside the U.S., Belgium's KU Leuven (#5), is a nearly 600-year-old institution that maintains one of the largest independent research and development organizations on the planet.

In contrast, there are only two Asian universities in the top 20, both of which are based in South Korea, and one of them actually teaches the majority of its classes in English: South Korea's KAIST, formerly the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, ranked #6. Established in 1971 by the Korean government, KAIST was modeled after engineering schools in the United States, and initially funded with a multimillion-dollar loan from the United States Agency for International Development.

Overall, the top 100 consists of 51 universities based in North America, 26 in Europe, 20 in Asia and three in the Middle East.

For more on the Reuters Top 100, including a detailed methodology and profiles of the universities, visit www.reuters.com/innovative-universities-2017/.

The Reuters Top 100: The World's Most Innovative Universities

1 Stanford University

2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

3 Harvard University

4 University of Pennsylvania

5 KU Leuven

6 KAIST

7 University of Washington

8 University of Michigan System

9 University of Texas System

10 Vanderbilt University

11 Duke University

12 University of California System

13 Northwestern University

14 Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)

15 Imperial College London

16 Cornell University

17 California Institute of Technology

18 University of Wisconsin System

19 Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne

20 University of Southern California

21 University of Tokyo

22 Johns Hopkins University

23 Georgia Institute of Technology

24 Seoul National University

25 University of Illinois System

26 University of Cambridge

27 Indiana University System

28 Pierre & Marie Curie University - Paris 6

29 University of Colorado System

30 University of Pittsburgh

31 University of Oxford

32 Purdue University System

33 University of Chicago

34 Osaka University

35 University of North Carolina System

36 Princeton University

37 Ohio State University

38 Tufts University

39 Tohoku University

40 Technical University of Munich

41 Columbia University

42 Kyoto University

43 Yale University

44 Baylor College of Medicine

45 Tokyo Institute of Technology

46 University of Toronto

47 University of Minnesota System

48 Sungkyunkwan University

49 University of Utah

50 University of Erlangen Nuremberg

51 Tsinghua University

52 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

53 Oregon Health & Science University

54 Emory University

55 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

56 Delft University of Technology

57 University of Massachusetts System

58 University of British Columbia

59 University of Zurich

60 Peking University

61 Hanyang University

62 University of Montpellier

63 Boston University

64 University of Munich

65 Technical University of Denmark

66 University of Florida

67 University College London

68 Kyushu University

69 Yonsei University

70 National University of Singapore

71 State University of New York System

72 Case Western Reserve University

73 Keio University

74 University of Copenhagen

75 Ghent University

76 Florida State University

77 Korea University

78 Rutgers State University

79 University of Rochester

80 University of Manchester

81 University of Freiburg

82 Hebrew University of Jerusalem

83 Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology

84 Leiden University

85 Arizona State University

86 Free University of Berlin

87 University of Claude Bernard - Lyon 1

88 Tel Aviv University

89 Technion Israel Institute of Technology

90 University of Paris Descartes - Paris 5

91 Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

92 Rice University

93 University of Paris Sud - Paris 11

94 University of Iowa

95 Hokkaido University

96 University of Virginia

97 Dresden University of Technology

98 Carnegie Mellon University

99 Wake Forest University

100 Zhejiang University

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