Global YTD Ranking Universities

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Global 100 Universities in Terms of USPTO Patents
Data Refreshed as of October 14, 2025
2025 YTD Patents	Ranking 2025 YTD	Ranking 2024	Ranking 2023	University	Primary Location
460	1	2	1	University of California	Oakland, CA (US)
279	2	1	3	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	Dhahran, SA
272	3	3	4	Chinese Academy of Sciences	Shanghai, CN
252	4	4	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA (US)
191	5	5	10	Zhejiang University	Hangzhou, CN
189	6	6	5	University of Texas System	Austin, TX (US)
155	7	8	7	Leland Stanford Junior University	Stanford, CA (US)
152	8	11	14	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Daejeon, KR
151	9	17	18	Seoul National University	Seoul, KR
148	10	10	11	Arizona State University	Scottsdale, AZ (US)
145	11	9	8	Tsinghua University	Beijing, CN
140	12	14	16	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI (US)
130	13	12	9	Harvard College	Cambridge, MA (US)
124	14	18	23	Northwestern University	Evanston, IL (US)
121	15	13	15	The Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD (US)
119	16	7	6	Purdue Research Foundation	West Lafayette, IN (US)
118	17	21	22	Korea University Research and Business Foundation	Seoul, KR
116	18	20	13	University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated	Gainesville, FL (US)
109	19	15	12	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, CA (US)
109	20	146	1389	Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University	Riyadh, SA
108	21	19	17	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation	Madison, WI (US)
98	22	40	26	Sungkyunkwan University	Seoul, KR
97	23	54	34	University of Washington	Seattle, WA (US)
94	24	22	20	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA (US)
94	25	30	38	Georgia Tech Research Corporation	Atlanta, GA (US)
91	26	25	31	Cornell University	Ithaca, NY (US)
91	27	44	25	Yonsei University	Seoul, KR
90	28	28	21	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA (US)
88	29	29	37	University of Colorado	Denver, CO (US)
88	30	23	24	University System of Maryland	College Park, NY (US)
86	31	27	48	Shandong University	Shandong, CN
84	32	32	29	Industry-university Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University	Seoul, KR
80	33	68	144	King Saud University	Riyadh, SA
78	34	37	33	University of Illinois	Urbana, IL (US)
77	35	24	32	Duke University	Durham, NC (US)
74	36	26	28	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis, MN (US)
68	37	33	40	Washington University	St. Louis, MO (US)
68	38	34	47	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong, CN
68	39	58	35	The University of Tokyo	Tokyo, JP
67	40	35	57	University of Arizona	Tucson, AZ (US)
66	41	55	53	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	Hubei, CN
64	42	38	45	University of Massachusetts	Boston, MA (US)
63	43	59	39	National Taiwan University	Taipei, TW
62	44	51	51	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, PA (US)
61	45	31	42	Columbia University	New York, NY (US)
59	46	45	43	Osaka University	Osaka, JP
58	47	41	46	Jiangnan University	Wuxi, CN
58	48	43	69	Soochow University	Suzhou, CN
57	49	36	19	Korea Institute of Science and Technology	Seoul, KR
57	50	48	41	Case Western Reserve University	Cleveland, OH (US)
57	51	52	70	Northeastern University	Boston, MA (US)
57	52	62	49	The Texas A&m University System	College Station, TX (US)
55	53	83	117	University of Chicago	Chicago, IL (US)
55	54	73	72	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	New Brunswick, NJ (US)
54	55	50	58	Yale University	New Haven, CT (US)
54	56	39	36	University of South Florida	Tampa, FL (US)
54	57	56	59	Southeast University	Jiangsu, CN
54	58	87	96	B1 Institute of Image Technology, Inc.	Seoul, KR
53	59	88	67	Emory University	Atlanta, GA (US)
53	60	91	88	University of Virginia	Charlottesville, VA (US)
53	61	46	52	State University of New York	Amherst, NY (US)
50	62	99	140	Korea Electronics Technology Institute	Seongnam-si, KR
49	63	92	55	University of Southern California	Los Angeles, CA (US)
49	64	57	60	University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.	Orlando, FL (US)
49	65	85	87	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology	Tokyo, JP
49	66	130	164	United Arab Emirates University	Al Ain, AE
48	67	67	100	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, NC (US)
47	68	53	30	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	Thuwal, SA
46	69	63	73	Michigan State University	East Lansing, MI (US)
46	70	98	147	China University of Mining and Technology	Jiangsu, CN
46	71	47	54	North Carolina State University	Raleigh, NC (US)
46	72	75	97	China University of Petroleum	Qingdao, CN
45	73	77	94	National University of Singapore	Singapore, SG
44	74	90	66	University-industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University	Yongin-si, KR
44	75	84	121	Tianjin University	Tianjin, CN
42	76	66	68	South China University of Technology	Guangdong, CN
41	77	65	61	Vanderbilt University	Nashville, TN (US)
41	78	74	63	Tohoku University	Sendai, JP
41	79	71	62	Florida International University	Miami, FL (US)
40	80	72	50	Southwest Petroleum University	Sichuan, CN
40	81	94	76	National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University	Hsinchu, TW
39	82	42	44	Dalian University of Technology	Dalian, CN
39	83	107	91	Guangdong University of Technology	Guangdong, CN
39	84	61	78	Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.	Ames, IA (US)
39	85	97	130	Sejong University	KR
38	86	95	71	Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited	Haifa, IL
38	87	60	56	Jiangsu University	Jiangsu, CN
37	88	106	104	University of Utah Research Foundation	Salt Lake City, UT (US)
37	89	137	115	Ajou University Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation	Suwon-si, KR
36	90	143	234	Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation	Seoul, KR
36	91	116	109	Boston University	Boston, MA (US)
35	92	118	90	Shenzhen University	Shenzhen, CN
35	93	81	114	Peking University	Beijing, CN
34	94	160	157	Harbin Institute of Technology	Harbin, CN
34	95	49	81	Shanghai Jiaotong University	Shanghai, CN
33	96	109	84	Sichuan University	Sichuan, CN
33	97	16	27	Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University	Dammam, SA
33	98	112	95	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	Nanjing, CN
33	99	100	74	Indiana University	Bloomington, IN (US)
33	100	82	85	Dartmouth College	Hanover, NH (US)
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Global 100 Universities in Terms of USPTO Patents

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