2018 Innovation Ranking

University

Country

1

KU Leuven

Belgium

2

Imperial College London

United Kingdom

3

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

4

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Switzerland

5

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Germany

6

Technical University of Munich

Germany

7

University of Manchester

United Kingdom

8

LMU Munich

Germany

9

Technical University of Denmark

Denmark

10

ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Switzerland

11

UCL

United Kingdom

12

Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

13

University of Zurich

Switzerland

14

University of Oxford

United Kingdom

15

University of Basel

Switzerland

16

Montpellier University

France

17

Leiden University

Netherlands

18

Pierre and Marie Curie University

France

19

Paris Descartes University

France

20

Heidelberg University

Germany

21

Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Germany

22

Free University of Berlin

Germany

23

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

24

University of Freiburg

Germany

25

Paris-Sud University

France

26

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin 

Germany

27

Humboldt University of Berlin

Germany

28

Grenoble Alpes University

France

29

TU Dresden

Germany

30

University of Bordeaux

France

31

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Germany

32

University of Oslo

Norway

33

Ghent University

Belgium

34

University of Birmingham

United Kingdom

35

Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

France

36

University of Glasgow

United Kingdom

37

Queen Mary University of London

United Kingdom

38

King's College London

United Kingdom

39

Technical University of Berlin

Germany

40

RWTH Aachen University

Germany

41

University of Strasbourg

France

42

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Belgium

43

University of Copenhagen

Denmark

44

Polytechnic University of Milan

Italy

45

University of Edinburgh

United Kingdom

46

Grenoble Institute of Technology

France

47

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Belgium

48

Utrecht University

Netherlands

49

École Polytechnique

France

50

Goethe University Frankfurt

Germany

51

Paris Diderot University - Paris 7

France

52

University of Munster - School of Business and Economics

Germany

53

Cardiff University

United Kingdom

54

Université Catholique de Louvain

Belgium

55

Hannover Medical School

Germany

56

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Netherlands

57

University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

58

University of Dundee

United Kingdom

59

Aix-Marseille University

France

60

University of Leicester

United Kingdom

61

Saarland University

Germany

62

University of Sheffield

United Kingdom

63

University of Tübingen

Germany

64

Vienna University of Technology

Austria 

65

Trinity College Dublin

Ireland

66

University of Milan

Italy

67

Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

France

68

University of Leeds

United Kingdom

69

University of Barcelona

Spain

70

University of Southampton

United Kingdom

71

University of Stuttgart

Germany

72

University of Würzburg

Germany

73

University of Lorraine

France

74

University of Geneva

Switzerland

75

University of Twente

Netherlands

76

University of Lille 1

France

77

Newcastle University

United Kingdom

78

University of Groningen

Netherlands

79

University of Nantes

France

80

University of Nottingham

United Kingdom

81

Sapienza University of Rome

Italy

82

University of Rennes 1

France

83

University of St Andrews

United Kingdom

84

Aarhus University

Denmark

85

University of Surrey

United Kingdom

86

University of Liège

Belgium

87

Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Spain

88

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Germany

89

University College Cork

Ireland

90

Jagiellonian University

Poland

91

Aalto University

Finland

92

University of Bonn

Germany

93

Autonomous University of Barcelona

Spain

94

Maastricht University 

Netherlands

95

Technical University of Darmstadt

Germany

96

University of Antwerp

Belgium

97

University of Nice Sophia Antipolis

France

98

University of Warwick

United Kingdom

99

Polytechnic University of Valencia

Spain

100

University of Valencia

Spain