The Reuters 100: The World’s Most Innovative Universities lists the top educational institutions in the world which invented new technologies and helped drive the global economy. Empirical data such as patent filings and research paper citations were the basis of this ranking. This is only the second time Reuters has made such list.
100 Most Innovative Universities (Source: Stanford University, College of Engineering)Universities with prolific academic instruction will take its students somewhere in life. Perhaps one way to measure technical education, especially engineering, is the amount of innovations the graduates and the students have produced. In today’s age, if universities want to be relevant with science and technology, the students they mold have to innovate.
100 Most Innovative Universities (Source: MIT)Stanford University tops the recent Reuters 100 due to their students and faculty consistently innovating. Hewlett Packard and Google, companies founded by its alumni, are proof that Stanford leads in the world of inventions. The university conducted a study in 2012 showing that Stanford entrepreneurs generate $2.7 trillion in annual revenue – equivalent to the 10th largest economy in the world. 
100 Most Innovative Universities (Harvard)The results had Massachusetts Institute of Technology – the university behind some of the most important innovations in the past century – and Harvard University – holding 47 Nobel laureates – ranked at second and third, respectively.
Here is the list of 100 Most Innovative Universities:Rank | University | Country
1 | Stanford University | USA
2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | USA
3 | Harvard University | USA
4 | University of Texas System | USA
5 | University of Washington System | USA
6 | KAIST | South Korea
7 | University of Michigan System | USA
8 | University of Pennsylvania | USA
9 | KU Leuven | Belgium
10 | Northwestern University | USA
11 | POSTECH | South Korea
12 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom
13 | University of Wisconsin System | USA
14 | Duke University | USA
15 | University of California System | USA
16 | University of Tokyo | Japan
17 | University of Southern California | USA
18 | Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | Switzerland
19 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom
20 | Vanderbilt University | USA
21 | Osaka University | Japan
22 | University of Illinois System | USA
23 | Johns Hopkins University | USA
24 | Georgia Institute of Technology | USA
25 | Ohio State University USA
26 | Cornell University USA
27 | University of Oxford United Kingdom
28 | California Institute of Technology USA
29 | Kyoto University | Japan
30 | Seoul National University | South Korea
31 | Tohoku University | Japan
32 | Princeton University | USA
33 | Purdue University System | USA
34 | Tufts University | USA
35 | Oregon Health & Science University | USA
36 | University of North Carolina System | USA
37 | Indiana University System | USA
38 | Technical University of Munich | Germany
39 | University of Pittsburgh | USA
40 | University of Utah | USA
41 | Boston University | USA
42 | Columbia University | USA
43 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan
44 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands
45 | University of Colorado System | USA
46 | Sungkyunkwan University South | Korea
47 | University of Chicago | USA
48 | Keio University | Japan
49 | University of Erlangen Nuremberg | Germany
50 | University of British Columbia | Canada
51 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland
52 | University of Massachusetts System | USA
53 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark
54 | Yale University | USA
55 | Yonsei University | South Korea
56 | Emory University | USA
57 | University of Toronto | Canada
58 | University of Zurich | Switzerland
59 | Technion Israel Institute of Technology | Israel
60 | Pierre & Marie Curie University – Paris 6 | France
61 | University of Munich | Germany
62 | State University System of Florida | USA
63 | University of Arizona and Board of Regents | USA
64 | National University of Singapore | Singapore
65 | University of Minnesota System | USA
66 | Tsinghua University | China
67 | Baylor College of Medicine | USA
68 | Hanyang University | South Korea
69 | Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology | South Korea
70 | Peking University | China
71 | University of London | United Kingdom
72 | Mount Sinai School of Medicine | USA
73 | Korea University | South Korea74 | Ghent University | Belgium
75 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark
76 | University of Rochester | USA
77 | University of Claude Bernard – Lyon 1 | France
78 | University of Paris Sud – Paris XI | France
79 | Kyushu University | Japan
80 | State University of New York (SUNY) | USA
81 | University System of Maryland | USA
82 | Dresden University of Technology | Germany
83 | University of Montpellier | France
84 | University of Alabama System | USA
85 | Case Western Reserve University | USA
86 | University of Freiburg | Germany
87 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom
88 | University of Paris Descartes – Paris V | France
89 | Tel Aviv University | Israel90 | Nagoya University | Japan
91 | Rutgers State University | USA
92 | Free University of Berlin | Germany
93 | Grenoble Alpes University | France
94 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel
95 | Hokkaido University | Japan
96 | University of Strasbourg | France
97 | University of Aix-Marseille | France
98 | University Libre Brussels | Belgium
99 | Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg | Germany
100 | University of Virginia | USA
Source: Reuters
