| ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017 -   Communication | 
| World Rank | Institution* | Country | Total Score | Score on PUB | 
| 1 | The Ohio State University - Columbus | United States | 332.6 | 91.2 | 
| 2 | Michigan State University | United States | 307 | 86.9 | 
| 3 | The University of Texas at Austin | United States | 301.4 | 97.8 | 
| 4 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 298.5 | 100 | 
| 5 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | United States | 277 | 83.6 | 
| 6 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 263.1 | 87.4 | 
| 7 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States | 261.9 | 81.9 | 
| 8 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | United States | 255.4 | 82.7 | 
| 9 | Cornell University | United States | 247.4 | 62.3 | 
| 10 | Northwestern University | United States | 246.6 | 72.7 | 
| 11 | University of Washington | United States | 244.1 | 65.7 | 
| 12 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States | 237.7 | 73.3 | 
| 13 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States | 236 | 66.2 | 
| 14 | University of Southern California | United States | 234.2 | 68.9 | 
| 15 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 233.9 | 74.6 | 
| 16 | VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands | 217.1 | 58.2 | 
| 17 | Purdue University - West Lafayette | United States | 213.5 | 72 | 
| 18 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | United States | 204.6 | 62.8 | 
| 19 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States | 201.5 | 66.9 | 
| 20 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick | United States | 201.2 | 49.8 | 
| 21 | University of Munich | Germany | 200.5 | 53.5 | 
| 22 | University of Kentucky | United States | 200.4 | 60 | 
| 23 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 198.3 | 58.4 | 
| 24 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom | 197.7 | 64.3 | 
| 25 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 195.9 | 61.6 | 
| 26 | Harvard University | United States | 195.5 | 61 | 
| 27 | Ghent University | Belgium | 194.4 | 60 | 
| 28 | University of Arizona | United States | 193.4 | 65.2 | 
| 29 | The University of Georgia | United States | 192.5 | 68.5 | 
| 30 | City University of Hong Kong | China-Hong Kong | 190.1 | 57.1 | 
| 31 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 188.1 | 73.3 | 
| 32 | Arizona State University | United States | 187.7 | 60 | 
| 33 | Washington State University | United States | 187 | 52.9 | 
| 34 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | China-Hong Kong | 186.8 | 57.1 | 
| 35 | University of Antwerp | Belgium | 185.7 | 59.5 | 
| 36 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 185 | 64.7 | 
| 37 | The University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa | United States | 182.1 | 65.5 | 
| 38 | University at Buffalo, the State University of New York | United States | 182 | 51.1 | 
| 39 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 181.6 | 50.2 | 
| 40 | George Mason University | United States | 180 | 52 | 
| 41 | University of Vienna | Austria | 179 | 50.5 | 
| 42 | University of Mainz | Germany | 178 | 44.6 | 
| 43 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 176.9 | 60.3 | 
| 44 | University of Illinois at Chicago | United States | 176.7 | 47.6 | 
| 45 | University of Sydney | Australia | 176 | 62.6 | 
| 46 | Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge | United States | 175 | 51.7 | 
| 47 | University of Utah | United States | 174 | 50.2 | 
| 48 | Queensland University of Technology | Australia | 173.2 | 58.4 | 
| 49 | KU Leuven | Belgium | 171.4 | 55.4 | 
| 50 | Stanford University | United States | 170.1 | 47 | 
| 51-75 | American University | United States |       | 41 | 
| 51-75 | Erasmus University | Netherlands |       | 48.3 | 
| 51-75 | Florida State University | United States |       | 46.3 | 
| 51-75 | Georgia State University | United States |       | 46.3 | 
| 51-75 | Loughborough University | United Kingdom |       | 56.6 | 
| 51-75 | New York University | United States |       | 48.9 | 
| 51-75 | North Carolina State University - Raleigh | United States |       | 44.6 | 
| 51-75 | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands |       | 49.5 | 
| 51-75 | Seoul National University | South Korea |       | 41.3 | 
| 51-75 | Stockholm University | Sweden |       | 47 | 
| 51-75 | Syracuse University | United States |       | 46.6 | 
| 51-75 | Texas Tech University | United States |       | 61.8 | 
| 51-75 | The George Washington University | United States |       | 55.4 | 
| 51-75 | The University of Melbourne | Australia |       | 53.2 | 
| 51-75 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |       | 55.4 | 
| 51-75 | University of Florida | United States |       | 57.4 | 
| 51-75 | University of Iowa | United States |       | 49.8 | 
| 51-75 | University of Kansas | United States |       | 51.7 | 
| 51-75 | University of Leicester | United Kingdom |       | 56.8 | 
| 51-75 | University of Mannheim | Germany |       | 39.4 | 
| 51-75 | University of Missouri - Columbia | United States |       | 54.3 | 
| 51-75 | University of Oklahoma - Norman | United States |       | 54.3 | 
| 51-75 | University of Oslo | Norway |       | 52.6 | 
| 51-75 | University of Tennessee - Knoxville | United States |       | 47.3 | 
| 51-75 | Yale University | United States |       | 43.2 | 
| 76-100 | Aarhus University | Denmark |       | 48.3 | 
| 76-100 | Brigham Young University | United States |       | 46.6 | 
| 76-100 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |       | 52.9 | 
| 76-100 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |       | 39.4 | 
| 76-100 | Korea University | South Korea |       | 36.5 | 
| 76-100 | McGill University | Canada |       | 46 | 
| 76-100 | Monash University | Australia |       | 56.6 | 
| 76-100 | Ohio University | United States |       | 51.7 | 
| 76-100 | Sungkyunkwan University | South Korea |       | 37 | 
| 76-100 | Temple University | United States |       | 53.5 | 
| 76-100 | Texas A&M University | United States |       | 45.3 | 
| 76-100 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom |       | 45.3 | 
| 76-100 | The University of New South Wales | Australia |       | 50.5 | 
| 76-100 | The University of Queensland | Australia |       | 61.6 | 
| 76-100 | University College London | United Kingdom |       | 46.3 | 
| 76-100 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |       | 48.6 | 
| 76-100 | University of Haifa | Israel |       | 48.9 | 
| 76-100 | University of Helsinki | Finland |       | 56.6 | 
| 76-100 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |       | 60.5 | 
| 76-100 | University of South Carolina - Columbia | United States |       | 47.6 | 
| 76-100 | University of Toronto | Canada |       | 53.2 | 
| 76-100 | University of Twente | Netherlands |       | 38.6 | 
| 76-100 | Uppsala University | Sweden |       | 43.2 | 
| 76-100 | West Virginia University | United States |       | 34.8 | 
| 76-100 | Yonsei University | South Korea |       | 33 |