Global YTD Ranking Universities

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Global 100 Universities in Terms of USPTO Patents
Data Refreshed as of October 14, 2025
2024 YTD Patents	Ranking 2024 YTD	Ranking 2023	Ranking 2022	University	Primary Location
895	1	3	5	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	Dhahran, SA
539	2	1	1	University of California	Oakland, CA (US)
297	3	4	3	Chinese Academy of Sciences	Shanghai, CN
294	4	2	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA (US)
256	5	10	18	Zhejiang University	Hangzhou, CN
234	6	5	6	University of Texas System	Austin, TX (US)
210	7	6	7	Purdue Research Foundation	West Lafayette, IN (US)
196	8	7	8	Leland Stanford Junior University	Stanford, CA (US)
184	9	8	4	Tsinghua University	Beijing, CN
180	10	11	13	Arizona State University	Scottsdale, AZ (US)
174	11	14	14	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Daejeon, KR
164	12	9	9	Harvard College	Cambridge, MA (US)
156	13	15	12	The Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD (US)
156	14	16	15	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI (US)
142	15	12	11	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, CA (US)
141	16	27	86	Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University	Dammam, SA
141	17	18	16	Seoul National University	Seoul, KR
133	18	23	29	Northwestern University	Evanston, IL (US)
132	19	17	19	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation	Madison, WI (US)
120	20	13	17	University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated	Gainesville, FL (US)
119	21	22	34	Korea University Research and Business Foundation	Seoul, KR
115	22	20	24	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA (US)
115	23	24	38	University System of Maryland	College Park, NY (US)
112	24	32	20	Duke University	Durham, NC (US)
107	25	31	27	Cornell University	Ithaca, NY (US)
107	26	48	60	Shandong University	Shandong, CN
106	27	28	28	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis, MN (US)
104	28	21	23	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA (US)
101	29	37	22	University of Colorado	Denver, CO (US)
100	30	38	42	Georgia Tech Research Corporation	Atlanta, GA (US)
100	31	42	39	Columbia University	New York, NY (US)
98	32	29	25	Industry-university Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University	Seoul, KR
97	33	40	41	Washington University	St. Louis, MO (US)
97	34	47	43	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, CN
94	35	57	35	University of Arizona	Tucson, AZ (US)
89	36	19	21	Korea Institute of Science and Technology	Seoul, KR
85	37	33	32	University of Illinois	Urbana, IL (US)
85	38	45	31	University of Massachusetts	Boston, MA (US)
83	39	36	36	University of South Florida	Tampa, FL (US)
83	40	26	30	Sungkyunkwan University	Seoul, KR
81	41	46	52	Jiangnan University	Wuxi, CN
80	42	44	26	Dalian University of Technology	Dalian, CN
80	43	69	68	Soochow University	Suzhou, CN
80	44	25	58	Yonsei University	Seoul, KR
78	45	43	48	Osaka University	Osaka, JP
77	46	52	47	State University of New York	Amherst, NY (US)
76	47	54	53	North Carolina State University	Raleigh, NC (US)
74	48	41	33	Case Western Reserve University	Cleveland, OH (US)
73	49	81	79	Shanghai Jiaotong University	Shanghai, CN
71	50	58	59	Yale University	New Haven, CT (US)
71	51	51	65	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, PA (US)
70	52	70	61	Northeastern University	Boston, MA (US)
69	53	30	37	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	Thuwal, SA
69	54	34	46	University of Washington	Seattle, WA (US)
68	55	53	54	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	Hubei, CN
68	56	59	92	Southeast University	Jiangsu, CN
66	57	60	57	University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.	Orlando, FL (US)
66	58	35	44	The University of Tokyo	Tokyo, JP
65	59	39	40	National Taiwan University	Taipei, TW
62	60	56	49	Jiangsu University	Jiangsu, CN
60	61	78	94	Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.	Ames, IA (US)
60	62	49	62	The Texas A&m University System	College Station, TX (US)
59	63	73	73	Michigan State University	East Lansing, MI (US)
59	64	75	81	Wuhan University	Wuhan, CN
57	65	61	66	Vanderbilt University	Nashville, TN (US)
57	66	68	55	South China University of Technology	Guangdong, CN
56	67	100	75	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, NC (US)
56	68	144	350	King Saud University	Riyadh, SA
56	69	82	74	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	Ulsan, KR
55	70	102	77	Oxford University Innovation Limited	Oxford, GB
55	71	62	63	Florida International University	Miami, FL (US)
54	72	50	67	Southwest Petroleum University	Sichuan, CN
54	73	72	51	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	New Brunswick, NJ (US)
53	74	63	64	Tohoku University	Sendai, JP
53	75	97	83	China University of Petroleum	Qingdao, CN
52	76	107	91	Kyoto University	Kyoto, JP
52	77	94	116	National University of Singapore	Singapore, SG
52	78	120	114	Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.	Blacksburg, VA (US)
51	79	65	72	New York University	New York, NY (US)
51	80	124	132	Beihang University	Beijing, CN
51	81	114	95	Peking University	Beijing, CN
50	82	85	108	Dartmouth College	Hanover, NH (US)
49	83	117	85	University of Chicago	Chicago, IL (US)
49	84	121	124	Tianjin University	Tianjin, CN
48	85	87	50	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology	Tokyo, JP
47	86	86	128	Tongji University	Shanghai, CN
46	87	96	193	B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc.	Seoul, KR
45	88	67	90	Emory University	Atlanta, GA (US)
45	89	160	84	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore, SG
45	90	66	78	University-industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University	Yongin-si, KR
45	91	88	70	University of Virginia	Charlottesville, VA (US)
44	92	55	45	University of Southern California	Los Angeles, CA (US)
43	93	64	107	University of South Carolina	Columbia, SC (US)
43	94	76	56	National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University	Hsinchu, TW
42	95	71	71	Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited	Haifa, IL
42	96	108	87	Beijing University of Technology	Beijing, CN
42	97	130	147	Sejong University	KR
41	98	147	96	China University of Mining and Technology	Jiangsu, CN
40	99	140	113	Korea Electronics Technology Institute	Seongnam-si, KR
40	100	74	80	Indiana University	Bloomington, IN (US)
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Global 100 Universities in Terms of USPTO Patents

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