KFUPM meaning in Academic & Science ?

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM or UPM) (Arabic: جامعة الملك فهد للبترول و المعادن‎, Jāmiʿat al-Malik Fahd li-l-Bitrūl wa-l-Maʿādin – short: Arabic: جامعة البترول‎ Jāmiʿat al-Bitrūl) is a public university in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Among Saudi universities, its science, engineering, business and management programs are the most highly regarded in the country as well as in the whole region.

The university is ranked fourth, by the American National Academy of Inventors, among top 100 worldwide universities for granting US Utility Patents in 2018. And Stanford University has recently released a list of the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines. The exhaustive list has 159,683 researchers, of which more than 60 researchers are professors currently employed at KFUPM.