Top Arts Universities

The world's top arts and humanities universities The world's top arts and humanities universities Rank Institution Country Score 1 Cambridge University UK 100.0 2 Oxford University UK 99.7 3 Harvard University US 92.3 4 University of California, Berkeley US 85.8 5 Sydney University Australia 83.6 6 Australian National University Australia 81.9 7 Melbourne University Australia 79.9 8 Yale University US 79.7 9 Princeton University US 72.4 10 Beijing University China 68.2 11 University of Toronto Canada 65.9 12 McGill University Canada 65.8 13 Edinburgh University UK 64.2 14 Columbia University US 63.9 15 Stanford University US 62.9 16 Paris IV — Sorbonne France 62.5 17 University of Chicago US 61.0 18 University of New South Wales  Australia 60.6 19 London School of Economics UK 59.9 20 University of California, Los Angeles US 59.4 21 Massachusetts Institute of Technology  US 59.2 22 National University of Singapore Singapore 58.6 23 King’s College London  UK 57.7 24 Amsterdam University Netherlands 57.6 25 Ecole Normale Supériere Paris France 56.8 26 Copenhagen University Denmark 56.7 27 Tokyo University Japan 55.3 28 Monash University Australia 54.7 29 Auckland University New Zealand 54.1 30 School of Oriental and African Studies UK 53.9 31 Bologna University Italy 53.8 32 University of British Columbia Canada 53.2 33= Free University Berlin Germany 52.3 33= Hong Kong University Hong Kong 52.3 35 University College London UK 51.6 36 Kyoto University Japan 51.2 37= Vienna University Austria 50.4 37= Warwick University UK 50.4 39= Trinity College Dublin Ireland 50.2 39= University of Michigan  US 50.2 41 Cornell University US 50.0 42 Queensland University Australia 49.9 43 Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel 49.6 44 St Andrews University UK 48.2 45 University of Pennsylvania  US 45.6 46 University of Texas at Austin US 45.4 47 New York University US 45.3 48= Brown University US 44.9 48= Johns Hopkins University US 44.9 50 Macquarie University Australia 44.8 51 Manchester University & Umist UK 44.0 52 Heidelberg University Germany 43.8 53 Leiden University Netherlands 43.1 54 La Trobe University Australia 42.6 55= Leeds University UK 42.2 55= La Sapienza University, Rome Italy 42.2 57 Bristol University UK 42.1 58 Waseda University Japan 41.9 59 RMIT University Australia 41.6 60 Paris I — Panthéon Sorbonne France 41.5 61 Helsinki University Finland 41.1 62 Sussex University UK 41.0 63 Utrecht University Netherlands 40.7 64 York University UK 40.6 65 Oslo University Norway 40.4 66 University of Pittsburgh  US 40.3 67 Birmingham University UK 39.6 68 Glasgow University UK 38.5 69 Tasmania University Australia 37.5 70 Gadjah Mada University Indonesia 37.3 71= Duke University US 37.2 71= University of Western Australia  Australia 37.2 73= University of Alberta  Canada 37.1 73= Catholic University Leuven (Flemish) Belgium 37.1 75 Delhi University India 36.7 76= Nanjing University China 36.6 76= Victoria University New Zealand 36.6 78 Tsing Hua University China 36.5 79= Catholic University Louvain (French) Belgium 36.2 79= Queen Mary, University of London UK 36.2 79= Uppsala University Sweden 36.2 82= Fudan University China 36.1 82= Open University UK 36.1 82= University of Wisconsin  US 36.1 85 Chinese University Hong Kong Hong Kong 35.8 86 Queensland University Tech Australia 35.4 87= Geneva University Switzerland 35.1 87= Tel Aviv University Israel 35.1 89 Brussels Free University (French) Belgium 34.4 90 Florence University Italy 34.3 91 Humboldt University Berlin Germany 33.8 92 Cardiff University UK 33.7 93 Goldsmiths, University of London UK 33.5 94 University of Adelaide Australia 33.1 95= Bielefeld University Germany 32.9 95= University of California, Irvine US 32.9 95= Newcastle University Australia 32.9 98 Dartmouth College US 32.8 99= McMaster University Canada 32.7 99= University of Technology  Australia 32.7 The world's top 100 universities ranked for arts and humanities disciplines Oxford and Cambridge have been named among the strongest universities in the world in rankings for arts and humanities. Get the full QS rankings • Get the data Oxford and Cambridge have been named among the strongest universities in the world in the latest world rankings for arts and humanities, featuring in the top five for all disciplines. The rankings which show Oxford coming in top for geography and Cambridge ranking highest in linguistics, show the best performers in the six disciplines; philosophy, modern languages, linguistics, geography, history and english language and literature. The Oxbridge universities are in the top five for each subject. Although the University of Edinburgh ranks seventh place for linguistics, the rankings published by leading higher education and careers research company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) state that apart from Oxford and Cambridge, no other UK university makes the top 20 for english language and literature. American universities make a strong appearance once again in the QS rankings - Harvard topped the list for biological sciences rankings published earlier this year. The elite university ranked first for philosophy, history, modern languages english language and literature in the latest release. With the focus on UK universities charging higher tuition fees in 2012-13 , John O'Leary, Editor of the Times Good University Guide and a member of the QS Academic Advisory Board has said "With the cuts and fee increases, arts and humanities departments will be relying more heavily on students for their funding" adding that "This makes it all the more important that UK universities are viewed as internationally competitive. And with international fees already approaching those of the leading US institutions, this will also be key to their ability to continue to attract top international students." We have compiled these rankings and all the QS rankings so far into a spreadsheet which can be downloaded below. The rankings feature scores, university rankings and country and show the full 100 listed. Below is a table showing the top 10 in all six arts and humanities disciplines by subject. Data summary Top 10 universities for philosophy Click heading to sort - Download this data Rank Institution Country Score SOURCE: QS Quacquarelli Symonds 2011 - www.topuniversities.com 1 Harvard University United States 94.3 2 University of Oxford United Kingdom 93.6 3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 90.8 4 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 84.6 5 Princeton University United States 76.2 6 Australian National University Australia 73.8 7 University of Toronto Canada 71.4 8 Stanford University United States 70.1 9 Yale University United States 67.2 10 University of Chicago United States 63.3 Top 10 universities for english language & literature Click heading to sort - Download this data Rank Institution Country Score SOURCE: QS Quacquarelli Symonds 2011 - www.topuniversities.com 1 Harvard University United States 98.8 2 University of Oxford United Kingdom 94.3 3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 89.9 4 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 85.5 5 Yale University United States 80.4 6 Columbia University United States 72.5 7 University of Toronto Canada 72.2 8 Stanford University United States 70 9 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 66.9 10 University of Chicago United States 66 Top 10 universities for geography Click heading to sort - Download this data Rank Institution Country Score SOURCE: QS Quacquarelli Symonds 2011 - www.topuniversities.com 1 University of Oxford United Kingdom 87.2 2 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 85.4 3 Harvard University United States 83.7 4 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 83.5 5 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 71.2 6 Australian National University Australia 69.8 7 Stanford University United States 68.3 8 Yale University United States 67.6 9 University of Chicago United States 65.1 10 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 65 Top 10 universities for history Click heading to sort - Download this data Rank Institution Country Score SOURCE: QS Quacquarelli Symonds 2011 - www.topuniversities.com 1 Harvard University United States 94.7 2 University of Oxford United Kingdom 84.4 3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 82.6 4 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 73.2 5 Yale University United States 73.1 6 Princeton University United States 68.9 7 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 67.7 8 Columbia University United States 62.2 9 University of Chicago United States 62 Top 10 universities for linguistics Click heading to sort - Download this data Rank Institution Country Score SOURCE: QS Quacquarelli Symonds 2011 - www.topuniversities.com 1 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 94 2 University of Oxford United Kingdom 92.4 3 Harvard University United States 91.8 4 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 79.8 5 Stanford University United States 79.1 6 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 76.5 7 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 74.7 8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 73.6 9 McGill University Canada 65.6 10 Australian National University Australia 65 Top 10 universities for modern languages Click heading to sort - Download this data Rank Institution Country Score SOURCE: QS Quacquarelli Symonds 2011 - www.topuniversities.com 1 Harvard University United States 100 2 University of Oxford United Kingdom 90.8 3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 86.7 4 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 80.5 5 Yale University United States 73.2 6 Australian National University Australia 68.4 7 Cornell University United States 68.2 8 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 68 9= Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 65.4 9= University of Toronto Canada 65.4
Yale University New Haven/United States
Harvard University Cambridge/United States
University Of Oxford Oxford/United Kingdom
UCLA  Los Angeles/United States
University Of Cambridge Cambridge/United Kingdom
Royal College Of Art London/United Kingdom
California Institute Of The Arts  Valencia/United States
San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco/United States
Universite Paris Sorbonne Paris/France
The School Of Art And Design Berlin Berlin/Germany
University Of Chicago Chicago/United States
Goldsmiths, University Of London London/United Kingdom
New York University New York/United States
University Of Madrid Ciudad Universitaria/Spain
Sarah Lawrence New York /United States
Brown University  Providence/United States
Central Saint Martins College Of Art And Design London/United Kingdom
Dartmouth College Hanover/United States
Pratt Institute School Of Art And Design Brooklyn/United States
Parsons The New School For Design New York/United States
Princeton Princeton/United States
The Academy Of Fine Arts Prague Prague/Czech Republic
Vassar College Poughkeepsie/United States
University Of California - Berkeley Berkeley/United States
Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute Of Fine Arts, Sculpture And Architecture St Petersburg/Russia
上海大学美术学院 上海/China
Cooper Union School Of Art New York/United States
Chelsea College Of Art And Design London/United Kingdom
Academy Of Visual Arts Leipzig Leipzig /Germany
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Düsseldorf/Germany
Wellesley College  Wellesley/United States
Belgrade University Belgrade/
Warsaw Academy Of Fine Arts, Poland  Warszawa /Poland
School Of Visual Arts, New York New York/United States
Purchase College, SUNY School Of Art Design Purchase/United States
Hungarian Academy Of Fine Arts  Budapest/Hungary
Accademia Belle Arti Bologna Bologna/Italy
The University Of Notre Dame Notre Dame/United States
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh/United States
Moscow State University  Moscow/Russia
中国鲁迅美术学院 沈阳/China
Gazi University, Faculty Of Fine Arts Ankara/Turkey
Indiana - Purdue University  Fort Wayne /United States
Moscow State Academic Art Institute Named After V.I. Surikov  Moscow/Russia
The Florence Academy Of Art  Florence/Italy
The Art Institute Of Vancouver Vancouver/Canada
The Pennsylvania State University  University Park/United States
Cornell University  Ithaca/United States
The Universitat De Barcelona Barcelona/Spain
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology  Cambridge/United States