Universities With the Most Licensing Revenue, FY 2010

Even though several other universities spent much more on research and were issued many more patents, Northwestern University led in income from licensing.

Institution	Licensing income	Start-up companies formed	Licenses executed	Total active licenses	New patent applications	U.S	Total research spending
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva U.	$6,496,431	2	13	-	20	19	$152,161,016
Arizona State U.	$1,625,716	4	55	139	99	17	$329,345,118
Auburn U.	$770,134	1	25	63	108	23	$145,115,000
Baylor College of Medicine	$8,485,000	-	48	605	27	8	$403,351,000
Boise State U.	$1,000	0	4	4	11	4	$18,731,250
Boston College	$134,424	0	3	2	8	8	$43,571,332
Boston U./Boston Medical Center	$1,471,353	2	9	160	52	18	$402,521,235
Bowling Green State U.	$6,335	1	2	2	9	3	$7,958,999
Brigham Young U.	$4,079,216	13	27	239	62	10	$28,503,008
California Institute of Technology	$51,582,149	10	47	94	415	138	$504,476,128
Carnegie Mellon U.	$6,078,662	10	48	288	53	24	$233,486,000
Case Western Reserve U.	$14,333,273	5	38	250	54	28	$334,993,000
Clemson U.	$1,064,678	3	11	45	39	20	$187,292,161
College of William & Mary	$26,745	0	12	-	2	3	$38,166,000
Colorado State U.	$1,109,841	5	33	108	52	8	$302,895,453
Columbia U.	$147,237,631	12	61	55	177	66	$662,048,550
Cornell U.	$11,579,905	12	37	553	142	69	$764,244,588
Dartmouth College	$2,335,506	1	9	131	31	15	$143,955,424
Drexel U.	$185,672	3	18	60	62	22	$113,610,000
Duke U.	$25,733,526	5	99	738	125	43	$826,993,375
East Carolina U.	$293,901	0	2	18	2	2	$23,995,000
Eastern Virginia Medical School	$1,228,505	0	1	23	24	2	$44,420,000
Emory U.	$14,383,542	4	36	251	58	17	$450,204,168
Florida Atlantic U.	$145,476	1	6	10	15	4	$41,605,782
Florida International U.	$24,942	0	1	4	7	1	$76,746,403
Florida State U.	$1,314,917	2	6	65	34	21	$217,441,956
George Mason U.	$110,375	2	6	19	44	24	$100,286,575
Georgetown U.	$8,054,887	0	10	139	41	4	$235,780,755
Georgia Institute of Technology	$2,282,824	8	42	464	255	49	$643,736,567
Harvard U.	$10,052,098	8	67	547	154	39	$769,500,000
Idaho State U.	-	0	1	1	3	0	$22,079,571
Indiana U.	$14,126,964	4	27	242	92	8	$432,026,862
Iowa State U.	$9,402,563	0	83	448	60	29	$280,956,000
Johns Hopkins U.	$12,413,714	11	104	568	449	53	$1,462,975,000
Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Laboratory	$1,214,970	2	26	123	31	14	$1,070,844,725
Kansas State U. Research Foundation	$1,468,592	0	4	50	18	11	$117,320,287
Kent State U.	$401,233	0	8	35	25	8	$26,331,000
Lehigh U.	$169,006	-	-	-	18	3	$44,672,800
Louisiana State U. system	$9,575,115	5	26	122	47	14	$416,845,000
Louisiana Tech U.	$33,500	1	2	12	13	4	$26,020,000
Loyola U. of Chicago	$3,737,075	0	2	3	5	2	$43,902,819
Marquette U.	$648,267	1	1	18	17	1	$28,101,796
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$69,200,000	17	96	919	535	172	$1,400,945,000
Medical College of Georgia Research Institute	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Medical College of Wisconsin Research Foundation	$666,447	4	8	55	6	3	$128,450,345
Medical U. of South Carolina	$180,581	3	7	17	16	1	$181,350,415
Miami U. (Ohio)	$1,653,034	0	0	1	1	1	$22,727,194
Michigan State U.	$4,016,733	0	31	343	41	52	$431,373,000
Michigan Technological U.	$308,174	1	14	95	17	6	$63,470,644
Mississippi State U.	$328,080	1	12	46	16	8	$231,675,000
Montana State U.	$273,790	1	53	191	17	4	$109,481,694
Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU	$15,381,631	1	24	119	34	11	$371,088,109
New Jersey Institute of Technology	$507,506	0	56	211	43	17	$92,318,000
New Mexico State U.	$15,171	2	2	9	5	7	$125,751,940
New York U.	$178,389,513	6	40	328	71	58	$365,944,000
North Carolina State U.	$5,117,361	4	74	450	32	32	$360,795,000
North Dakota State U.	$1,884,361	0	94	536	40	9	$126,419,245
Northern Arizona U.	-	0	0	2	5	-	-
Northern Illinois U.	$10,378	0	0	2	9	1	$15,346,935
Northwestern U.	$179,835,148	6	32	189	223	58	$491,628,943
NUtech Ventures (U. of Nebraska)
$1,925,417	5	26	83	56	13	$191,267,272
Ohio State U.	$1,907,046	8	35	179	69	38	$755,661,682
Oklahoma State U.	$1,441,391	2	9	62	15	5	$183,107,209
Oregon Health & Science U.	$1,225,508	3	48	323	42	21	$391,672,316
Oregon State U.	$2,480,653	0	32	129	22	18	$216,595,000
Penn State U.	$2,271,002	5	24	162	78	54	$780,066,000
Portland State U.	$91,960	0	6	17	6	1	$58,192,861
Purdue Research Foundation	$3,931,628	11	99	387	124	52	$572,866,000
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	$1,070,643	2	8	71	45	25	$68,169,814
Reseach Foundation of State U. of New York	$13,124,377	5	50	554	114	55	$891,199,555
Rice U.	$288,851	3	11	76	102	30	$105,332,776
Rockefeller U.	$16,429,000	1	34	204	19	20	$162,000,000
Rutgers U.	$8,697,051	8	80	413	67	31	$367,851,000
San Diego State U.	$365,814	3	12	40	36	2	$151,035,732
South Dakota State U.	$971,942	0	2	22	9	0	$64,369,000
Stanford U.	$65,466,286	-	90	1,944	376	180	$805,973,770
Temple U.	$378,207	1	5	32	11	4	$97,983,104
Texas A&M U. system	$8,620,889	7	49	507	38	33	$689,624,000
Thomas Jefferson U.	$949,972	2	13	53	10	10	$99,193,267
Tufts U.	$7,401,189	1	11	79	29	19	$163,996,930
Tulane U.	$6,708,767	0	2	36	16	2	$172,798,616
U. of Akron	$202,226	2	10	47	26	9	$68,035,226
U. of Alabama	$77,051	0	3	15	45	1	$40,762,000
U. of Alabama in Huntsville	$1,037,722	4	2	6	5	2	$82,102,043
U. of Alaska	$13,500	-	16	16	1	0	$132,000,000
U. of Arizona	$718,027	6	64	241	67	13	$586,647,000
U. of Arkansas at Fayetteville	$688,589	5	64	363	12	8	$113,905,871
U. of California system	$104,434,511	75	252	2,096	915	297	$5,171,519,289
U. of Central Florida	$647,482	6	13	47	189	85	$117,833,479
U. of Chicago/UChicagoTech	$9,072,022	3	33	227	30	17	$379,032,557
U. of Cincinnati	$421,760	7	31	160	27	18	$240,319,081
U. of Colorado	$2,366,000	9	58	158	207	28	$847,000,000
U. of Connecticut	$898,141	6	12	101	33	32	$157,827,083
U. of Dayton Research Institute	$92,650	0	3	91	16	11	$93,319,294
U. of Delaware	$350,000	1	3	37	44	15	$121,199,743
U. of Florida	$29,235,006	9	92	619	171	59	$535,877,029
U. of Georgia	$6,672,555	4	112	736	63	30	$230,803,000
U. of Hawaii	$107,702	1	6	44	54	7	$255,734,059
U. of Houston	$4,351,111	1	9	41	33	13	$119,811,000
U. of Idaho	$204,051	1	13	44	17	8	$87,207,381
U. of Illinois at Chicago and at Urbana-Champaign	$13,471,311	8	61	290	164	94	$878,072,000
U. of Iowa Research Foundation	$26,991,145	3	21	120	23	32	$444,034,000
U. of Kansas	$954,613	0	7	73	31	12	$224,611,000
U. of Kentucky Research Foundation	$2,161,743	6	9	153	28	28	-
U. of Louisville	$157,439	-	6	-	-	8	$189,090,000
U. of Massachusetts	$40,019,174	2	42	281	77	44	$563,998,898
U. of Memphis	$50,500	0	-	-	16	1	-
U. of Miami	$1,305,661	2	4	77	65	5	$329,800,000
U. of Michigan	$39,822,113	10	97	396	153	82	$1,139,493,986
U. of Minnesota	$83,905,660	8	73	905	80	46	$653,616,819
U. of Mississippi	$110,883	2	3	21	9	3	$50,281,000
U. of Missouri (all campuses)	$10,098,770	7	54	135	59	35	$325,552,703
U. of Montana	$14,348	0	0	11	4	1	$66,961,101
U. of Nebraska	$3,715,464	7	47	130	102	24	$329,485,904
U. of Nevada at Reno	$109,941	0	1	19	17	11	$95,423,000
U. of New Hampshire	$296,671	1	12	100	7	4	$120,670,043
U. of New Mexico/Science and Technology	$3,772,659	5	33	77	105	26	$211,771,042
U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$2,597,841	5	39	550	64	27	$737,591,959
U. of North Carolina at Charlotte	$45,685	4	6	50	55	6	$34,375,376
U. of North Carolina at Greensboro	$120,523	1	3	18	5	0	$35,288,299
U. of North Texas Health Science Center	$51,608	0	4	25	8	2	$39,854,878
U. of Notre Dame	$338,161	2	8	21	29	11	$110,368,855
U. of Oklahoma (all campuses)	$430,489	1	3	52	27	22	$160,559,080
U. of Oregon	$7,496,766	1	30	132	19	7	$115,609,376
U. of Pennsylvania	$11,259,000	4	68	506	483	64	$785,317,000
U. of Pittsburgh	$3,839,157	6	80	220	69	33	$737,025,000
U. of Rhode Island	$200,752	0	3	42	20	4	$81,326,000
U. of Rochester	$41,664,036	5	19	128	46	21	$460,522,000
U. of South Alabama	$2,302,192	2	3	4	10	3	$35,500,000
U. of South Carolina	$537,679	1	16	42	33	6	$126,994,398
U. of South Dakota	$25,000	2	0	0	1	0	$34,500,000
U. of South Florida	$17,411,625	5	37	155	84	67	$390,850,000
U. of Southern California	$12,296,693	6	24	170	109	58	$592,790,873
U. of Tennessee	$428,326	4	15	140	96	22	$286,280,573
U. of Texas system	$38,309,487	33	175	1,160	368	150	$2,346,099,522
U. of Toledo	$868,533	2	16	113	25	7	$70,399,000
U. of Utah	$37,547,208	18	68	287	90	41	$450,488,999
U. of Vermont	$247,226	3	11	64	31	8	$111,071,155
U. of Virginia Patent Foundation	$5,206,704	6	42	393	233	21	$276,308,000
U. of Washington/Washington Research Foundation	$69,032,163	7	196	1,309	125	69	$887,329,593
U. of West Florida	-	0	0	4	1	0	$16,117,797
U. of Wisconsin at Madison	$54,300,000	5	62	529	109	133	$1,029,000,000
U. System of Maryland	$2,125,077	8	29	372	149	40	$887,972,244
UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Research Foundation	$3,804,741	4	22	228	37	14	$489,845,000
Utah State U.	$729,757	5	19	-	29	16	$149,169,000
Vanderbilt U.	$5,635,486	0	43	384	72	19	$491,632,448
Virginia Commonwealth U.	$1,077,477	1	13	103	106	9	$197,709,000
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties	$3,345,236	2	45	-	101	37	$226,129,280
Wake Forest U.	$85,991,743	3	14	-	40	12	$227,597,563
Washington State U. Research Foundation	$616,781	2	10	128	70	12	$169,255,335
Washington U. in St. Louis	$5,028,595	2	51	1,892	76	20	$706,288,000
Wayne State U.	$527,800	4	6	112	30	6	$154,737,227
West Virginia U.	$147,218	2	7	20	25	8	$95,554,400
Wright State U.	$5,818	0	2	17	3	1	$48,575,000
Yale U.	$6,988,492	5	31	533	299	25	$641,400,000