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Reuters named Stanford University as World’s Most Innovative University
Reuters Top 100: Stanford University as World’s Most Innovative University: Details, Highlights
According to the Reuters news agency rankings, the Stanford University was named as World’s Most Innovative University.
No Indian Universities was able to make it to the 2018 list.
The Reuters’ top 100 World’s Most Innovative University ranking recognises universities from across the world for their work in inventing new technologies, advance science, and power new markets and industries.
The Reuters rankings were first published in 2015, since then there has been no mention of any Indian university in the list.
Rankings
As per Reuters' top 100 list, 48 universities are from North America find mention on the list, 23 Asian universities, 27 from Europe and 2 from the Middle East.
The list has no mention of universities from South America, Africa and Oceania countries that include Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
The United States dominated the list with 46 universities among the top 100.
This year Chinese varsities have increased their presence in this with a total of five universities.
The key factor was this year’s ranking was Geopolitical trends.
The Stanford University from the US has topped this list for four continuous years.
The second and third position has been held by the US’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University respectively.
The Top 10 Innovative Universities Are:
- Stanford University, US
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US
- Harvard University, US
- University of Pennsylvania, US
- University of Washington, US
- University of Texas System, US
- KU Leuven, Belgium
- Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US
- Vanderbilt University, US
