NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University top the second annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the world's most innovative universities. The Reuters Top 100 ranking aims to identify the institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy. Unlike other rankings that often rely entirely or in part on subjective surveys, the ranking uses proprietary data and analysis tools from the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters to examine a series of patent and research-related metrics, and get to the essence of what it means to be truly innovative.
In the fast-changing world of science and technology, if you're not innovating, you're falling behind. That's one of the key findings of this year's Reuters 100. The 2016 results show that big breakthroughs - even just one highly influential paper or patent - can drive a university way up the list, but when that discovery fades into the past, so does its ranking. Consistency is key, with truly innovative institutions putting out groundbreaking work year after year.
Stanford held fast to its first place ranking by consistently producing new patents and papers that influence researchers elsewhere in academia and in private industry. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ranked #2) were behind some of the most important innovations of the past century, including the development of digital computers and the completion of the Human Genome Project. Harvard University (ranked #3), is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and has produced 47 Nobel laureates over the course of its 380-year history.
Some universities saw significant movement up the list, including, most notably, the University of Chicago, which jumped from #71 last year to #47 in 2016. Other list-climbers include the Netherlands' Delft University of Technology (#73 to #44) and South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University (#66 to #46).
The United States continues to dominate the list, with 46 universities in the top 100; Japan is once again the second best performing country, with nine universities. France and South Korea are tied in third, each with eight. Germany has seven ranked universities; the United Kingdom has five; Switzerland, Belgium and Israel have three; Denmark, China and Canada have two; and the Netherlands and Singapore each have one.
For more on the Reuters Top 100, including a detailed methodology and profiles of the universities, visit www.reuters.com/most-innovative-universities-2016 .
| 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 Texas System |
| 5 | University of Washington System |
| 6 | KAIST |
| 7 | University of Michigan System |
| 8 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 9 | KU Leuven |
| 10 | Northwestern University |
| 11 | Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) |
| 12 | Imperial College London |
| 13 | University of Wisconsin System |
| 14 | Duke University |
| 15 | University of California System |
| 16 | University of Tokyo |
| 17 | University of Southern California |
| 18 | Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne |
| 19 | University of Cambridge |
| 20 | Vanderbilt University |
| 21 | Osaka University |
| 22 | University of Illinois System |
| 23 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 24 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 25 | Ohio State University |
| 26 | Cornell University |
| 27 | University of Oxford |
| 28 | California Institute of Technology |
| 29 | Kyoto University |
| 30 | Seoul National University |
| 31 | Tohoku University |
| 32 | Princeton University |
| 33 | Purdue University System |
| 34 | Tufts University |
| 35 | Oregon Health & Science University |
| 36 | University of North Carolina System |
| 37 | Indiana University System |
| 38 | Technical University of Munich |
| 39 | University of Pittsburgh |
| 40 | University of Utah |
| 41 | Boston University |
| 42 | Columbia University |
| 43 | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 44 | Delft University of Technology |
| 45 | University of Colorado System |
| 46 | Sungkyunkwan University |
| 47 | University of Chicago |
| 48 | Keio University |
| 49 | University of Erlangen Nuremberg |
| 50 | University of British Columbia |
| 51 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich |
| 52 | University of Massachusetts System |
| 53 | Technical University of Denmark |
| 54 | Yale University |
| 55 | Yonsei University |
| 56 | Emory University |
| 57 | University of Toronto |
| 58 | University of Zurich |
| 59 | Technion Israel Institute of Technology |
| 60 | Pierre & Marie Curie University - Paris 6 |
| 61 | University of Munich |
| 62 | State University System of Florida |
| 63 | University of Arizona and Board of Regents |
| 64 | National University of Singapore |
| 65 | University of Minnesota System |
| 66 | Tsinghua University |
| 67 | Baylor College of Medicine |
| 68 | Hanyang University |
| 69 | Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology |
| 70 | Peking University |
| 71 | University of London |
| 72 | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| 73 | Korea University |
| 74 | Ghent University |
| 75 | University of Copenhagen |
| 76 | University of Rochester |
| 77 | University of Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 |
| 78 | University of Paris Sud - Paris XI |
| 79 | Kyushu University |
| 80 | State University of New York (SUNY) System |
| 81 | University System of Maryland |
| 82 | Dresden University of Technology |
| 83 | University of Montpellier |
| 84 | University of Alabama System |
| 85 | Case Western Reserve University |
| 86 | University of Freiburg |
| 87 | University of Manchester |
| 88 | University of Paris Descartes - Paris V |
| 89 | Tel Aviv University |
| 90 | Nagoya University |
| 91 | Rutgers State University |
| 92 | Free University of Berlin |
| 93 | Grenoble Alpes University |
| 94 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| 95 | Hokkaido University |
| 96 | University of Strasbourg |
| 97 | University of Aix-Marseille |
| 98 | University Libre Brussels |
| 99 | Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg |
| 100 | University of Virginia |
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