Top Universities for communication and media studies in United States
based on THE World University Rankings 2018 by Subject
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| International rank | Domestic rank | University | Country |
| 2= | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 4 | 2 | Stanford University | United States |
| 9 | 3 | University of Michigan | United States |
| 11 | 4 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 13 | 5 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 16 | 6 | Cornell University | United States |
| 18 | 7 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 19 | 8 | New York University | United States |
| 25 | 9 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 26 | 10 | University of Washington | United States |
| 32= | 11 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| 36 | 12 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 37 | 13 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 38 | 14 | Ohio State University | United States |
| 44= | 15 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 47= | 16 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 49 | 17 | University of Minnesota | United States |
| 54= | 18 | Michigan State University | United States |
| 56 | 19 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| 57 | 20 | Indiana University | United States |
| 64 | 21 | Brown University | United States |
| 66 | 22 | Arizona State University | United States |
| 76= | 23 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | United States |
| 81 | 24 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 85 | 25 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 91= | 26 | Washington University in St Louis | United States |
| 93 | 27 | Syracuse University | United States |
| 101-125 | 28= | University of Arizona | United States |
| 101-125 | 28= | Boston University | United States |
| 101-125 | 28= | Clark University | United States |
| 101-125 | 28= | University of Colorado Boulder | United States |
| 101-125 | 28= | George Washington University | United States |
| 126-150 | 33= | University of Florida | United States |
| 126-150 | 33= | University of Georgia | United States |
| 126-150 | 33= | University of Massachusetts | United States |
| 126-150 | 33= | University of Pittsburgh | United States |
| 126-150 | 33= | Texas A&M University | United States |
| 151-175 | 38 | Florida State University | United States |
| 176-200 | 39= | University of Delaware | United States |
| 176-200 | 39= | George Mason University | United States |
| 176-200 | 39= | University of Hawai’i at Mānoa | United States |
| 176-200 | 39= | Stony Brook University | United States |
| 176-200 | 39= | University of Texas at Dallas | United States |
| 176-200 | 39= | Vanderbilt University | United States |
| 201-250 | 45= | American University | United States |
| 201-250 | 45= | University of Missouri | United States |
| 201-250 | 45= | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | United States |
| 201-250 | 45= | Northeastern University | United States |
| 201-250 | 45= | Oregon State University | United States |
| 201-250 | 45= | University of South Florida | United States |
| 201-250 | 45= | Temple University | United States |
| 201-250 | 45= | University of Utah | United States |
| 201-250 | 45= | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | United States |
| 201-250 | 45= | Washington State University | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | University of Alabama at Birmingham | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | University of Alaska Fairbanks | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | Boston College | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | University at Buffalo | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | University of Cincinnati | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | Colorado State University | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | University of Connecticut | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | University of Denver | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | Georgia State University | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | University of Iowa | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | Iowa State University | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | University of Miami | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | University of Oregon | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | Portland State University | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | Tufts University | United States |
| 251-300 | 55= | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | United States |
| 301-400 | 72= | University of Houston | United States |
| 301-400 | 72= | University of Kansas | United States |
| 301-400 | 72= | Louisiana State University | United States |
| 301-400 | 72= | Mississippi State University | United States |
| 301-400 | 72= | North Carolina State University | United States |
| 301-400 | 72= | Northern Arizona University | United States |
| 301-400 | 72= | University of Oklahoma | United States |
| 301-400 | 72= | San Diego State University | United States |
| 301-400 | 72= | University of South Carolina | United States |
| 301-400 | 72= | University of Vermont | United States |