Stanford, MIT and Harvard top the second annual Reuters Top 100 ranking of the most innovative universities

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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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