World’s Top 100 Universities For Arts And Humanities Degrees, 2018

Stanford University’s arts and humanities programs has been ranked number one in the world university rankings for arts and humanities subjects, while the MIT ranked 2nd and Harvard, has fallen to third.

The 2018 rankings placed the University of Oxford in 4th ahead of the University of Cambridge into 5th; while University College London ranked 6th, and the University of Chicago 7th.

Overall, among the top 10 universities, the 8th, 9th, and 10th positions are held by Princeton University, Yale University, and Columbia University.

Peking University was the only Chinese institution to make the top 20, ranked at 17, up from 27th last year.

The annual rankings measure world’s best universities with programs in art, performing arts, languages, history, philosophy, theology, architecture and archaeology.

Business school at Stanford University (Stanford Graduate School of Business) was earlier this month ranked at #9 place in the CEOWORLD magazine’s best business schools in the world for 2017.

World’s Top 100 Universities For Arts And Humanities Degrees, 2018

1. Stanford University, US
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
3. Harvard University, US
4. University of Oxford, UK
5. University of Cambridge, UK
6. University College London, UK
7. University of Chicago, US
8. Princeton University, US
9. Yale University, US
10. Columbia University, US
11. University of California, Berkeley, US
12. University of Pennsylvania, US
13. University of California, Los Angeles, US
14. University of Edinburgh, UK
15. University of Michigan, US
16. University of Toronto, Canada
17. Peking University, China
18. Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
19. New York University, US
20. King’s College London, UK
21. LMU Munich, Germany
22. KU Leuven, Belgium
23. Duke University, US
24. Free University of Berlin, Germany
25. Cornell University, US
26. Leiden University, Netherlands
27. Heidelberg University, Germany
28. University of Hong Kong
29. Durham University, UK
30. National University of Singapore
31. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
32. Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris, France
33. Australian National University, Australia
34. Brown University, US
35. University of Melbourne, Australia
36. Johns Hopkins University, US
37. University of Warwick, UK
38. University of Tübingen, Germany
39. McGill University, Canada
40. Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris, France
41. University of Vienna, Austria
42. University of York, UK
43. University of Notre Dame, US
44. University of St Andrews, UK
45. University of Tokyo, Japan
46. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
47. University of Freiburg, Germany
48. Tsinghua University, China
49. University of British Columbia, Canada
50. University of Manchester, UK
51. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
52. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, US
53. University of Pittsburgh, US
54. Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris, France
55. Lancaster University, UK
56. University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
57. University of Helsinki, Finland
58. University of Sydney, Australia
59. Chinese University of Hong Kong
60. Utrecht University, Netherlands
61. Indiana University, US
62. Ohio State University, US
63. University of California, San Diego, US
64. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
65. Aarhus University, Denmark
66. University of Texas at Austin, US
67. University of Sheffield, UK
68. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US
69. Carnegie Mellon University, US
70. University of Glasgow, UK
71. University of Southern California, US
72. University of California, Santa Barbara, US
73. Ghent University, Belgium
74. Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
75. Northwestern University, US
76. University of Washington, US
77. University of Maryland, College Park, US
78. Soas, University of London, UK
79. University of Groningen, Netherlands
80. University of Birmingham, UK
81. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
82. University of Massachusetts, US
83. Stockholm University, Sweden
84. Lund University, Sweden
85. University of Leeds, UK
86. Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
87. Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
88. University of Zurich, Switzerland
89. Georgetown University, US
90. University of Geneva, Switzerland
91. University of Bristol, UK
92. University of California, Santa Cruz, US
93. University of Cologne, Germany
94. University of Göttingen, Germany
95. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
96. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
97. Birkbeck, University of London, UK
98. Uppsala University, Sweden
99. University of Exeter, UK
100. Kyoto University, Japan