Achieved first place among Arab and Saudi universities and 116th globally
Ranked 11th globally in engineering, 21st in pharmacy, and 37th in agricultural sciences in the ARWU 2025 rankings

Ranked 143rd globally and second among Saudi universities in the QS 2026 rankings
Achieved a distinguished scientific presence in the rankings of disciplines and research fields, ranking 33rd globally in petroleum engineering and 48th globally in dentistry and pharmacy

According to the U.S. News & World Report 2025 rankings, King Saud University ranked 146th globally and achieved positions within the top globally in:
Toxicology and Pharmacy: 4,Plant and Animal Sciences: 8 ,Polymer Science: 10 ,Mathematics: 15

Maintained its first-place ranking for the third consecutive year in the Times Higher Education Arab University Rankings (ARU 2026).

Ranked 20th globally in the Times Higher Education Interdisciplinary Science Rankings 2026

Fourteen of the university's scientific journals are indexed in the Web of Science database according to the ESCI, SCIE, and SSCI indexes.