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March 22, 2005

Time for some alma mater pride

Given that Chari and I were both fortunate enough to attend Caltech, I am going to give into some alma mater pride and do some boasting.  The Patent office recently issued a press release on the 10 universities receiving the most number of patents.  Here is the table:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
          PRELIMINARY LIST OF TOP PATENTING U.S. UNIVERSITIES
          Calendar Year 2004
                   
                Rank in 2004*
Number of                 Patents in 2004*
U.S. University*                
(Rank
                in 2003)
(Number of                 Patents in 2003)
1
424
University of California
(1)
(439)
2
135
California Institute of Technology
(2)
(139)
3
132
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(3)
(127)
4
101
University of Texas
(4)
(96)
5
94
Johns Hopkins University
(7)
(70)
6
75
Stanford University
(5)
(85)
7
67
University of Michigan
(8)
(63)
8
64
University of Wisconsin
(6)
(84)
9
58
University of Illinois
(20)
(39)
10
52
Columbia University
(9)
(61)

Sure the UC system got 5 times more patents than Caltech but consider this Caltech has a total of 2000 students (800 undergrads, 1200 grad students) and probably 600 faculty members.  Its the smallest institution on this list by far - the first year freshman class at Berkeley alone is bigger than all of Caltech combined.  For Caltech to punch so much above its weight class is downright amazing.  Quality always trumps quantity. 

Posted by Venky Ganesan at 11:41 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink

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