Best universities for arts and humanities in the World Based on THE World University Rankings 2018 by Subject:arts and humanities |
| Rank | University | Location |
| 1 | Stanford University | United States |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 3 | Harvard University | United States |
| 4 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 5= | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 5= | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 7 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 8 | Princeton University | United States |
| 9 | Yale University | United States |
| 10 | Columbia University | United States |
| 11 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 12 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 13 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 14 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 15 | University of Michigan | United States |
| 15 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 17 | Peking University | China |
| 18 | Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany |
| 19 | New York University | United States |
| 20 | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 21 | LMU Munich | Germany |
| 22 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 23 | Duke University | United States |
| 24 | Free University of Berlin | Germany |
| 25 | Cornell University | United States |
| 25 | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| 27 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 28 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 29 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| 30 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 31 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 32 | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris | France |
| 33 | Australian National University | Australia |
| 34 | Brown University | United States |
| 35 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 36 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 37 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 38 | University of Tübingen | Germany |
| 39 | McGill University | Canada |
| 39 | Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1 | France |
| 41 | University of Vienna | Austria |
| 42 | University of York | United Kingdom |
| 43 | University of Notre Dame | United States |
| 44 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
| 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 | United Kingdom |
| 51 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation |
| 52 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | United States |
| 53 | University of Pittsburgh | United States |
| 54 | Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4 | France |
| 55 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom |
| 55 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 57 | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| 58 | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 59 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 60 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 61 | Indiana University | United States |
| 62 | Ohio State University | United States |
| 63 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 63 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 65 | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| 66 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 67 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
| 68 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| 69 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 70 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 71 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 72 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
| 73 | Ghent University | Belgium |
| 74 | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy |
| 75 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 75 | University of Washington | United States |
| 77= | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| 77= | Soas, University of London | United Kingdom |
| 79 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| 80 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
| 81 | Trinity College Dublin | Republic of Ireland |
| 82 | University of Massachusetts | United States |
| 82 | Stockholm University | Sweden |
| 84 | Lund University | Sweden |
| 85 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
| 85 | Université Catholique de Louvain | Belgium |
| 87 | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands |
| 88 | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| 89 | Georgetown University | United States |
| 90 | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
| 91= | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 91= | University of California, Santa Cruz | United States |
| 91= | University of Cologne | Germany |
| 91= | University of G?ttingen | Germany |
| 95 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 96 | Autonomous University of Barcelona | Spain |
| 97 | Birkbeck, University of London | United Kingdom |
| 98 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
| 99 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom |
| 100 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 101-125 | University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom |
| 101-125 | University of Basel | Switzerland |
| 101-125 | University of Bern | Switzerland |
| 101-125 | University of Bologna | Italy |
| 101-125 | Boston University | United States |
| 101-125 | University of California, Irvine | United States |
| 101-125 | Emory University | United States |
| 101-125 | Goldsmiths, University of London | United Kingdom |
| 101-125 | University of Hamburg | Germany |
| 101-125 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
| 101-125 | University of Leicester | United Kingdom |
| 101-125 | Macquarie University | Australia |
| 101-125 | Michigan State University | United States |
| 101-125 | Monash University | Australia |
| 101-125 | University of Münster | Germany |
| 101-125 | Nanjing University | China |
| 101-125 | University of Oslo | Norway |
| 101-125 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 101-125 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom |
| 101-125 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 101-125 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea |
| 101-125 | Tel Aviv University | Israel |
| 101-125 | Victoria University of Wellington | New Zealand |
| 101-125 | University of Virginia | United States |
| 101-125 | Zhejiang University | China |
| 126-150 | Arizona State University | United States |
| 126-150 | University of Barcelona | Spain |
| 126-150 | University of Bonn | Germany |
| 126-150 | University of California, Davis | United States |
| 126-150 | University of Cape Town | South Africa |
| 126-150 | University of Hawai’i at Mānoa | United States |
| 126-150 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
| 126-150 | Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz | Germany |
| 126-150 | University of Konstanz | Germany |
| 126-150 | Korea University | South Korea |
| 126-150 | Maastricht University | Netherlands |
| 126-150 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Singapore |
| 126-150 | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Mexico |
| 126-150 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan |
| 126-150 | University of New South Wales | Australia |
| 126-150 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
| 126-150 | Pompeu Fabra University | Spain |
| 126-150 | University of Queensland | Australia |
| 126-150 | Saint Petersburg State University | Russian Federation |
| 126-150 | University of S?o Paulo | Brazil |
| 126-150 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| 126-150 | Technical University of Berlin | Germany |
| 126-150 | Tilburg University | Netherlands |
| 126-150 | Washington University in St Louis | United States |
| 126-150 | York University | Canada |
| 151-175 | Aix-Marseille University | France |
| 151-175 | University of Alberta | Canada |
| 151-175 | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| 151-175 | University of Bergen | Norway |
| 151-175 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |
| 151-175 | Complutense University of Madrid | Spain |
| 151-175 | University of Connecticut | United States |
| 151-175 | Dartmouth College | United States |
| 151-175 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 151-175 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| 151-175 | University of Fribourg | Switzerland |
| 151-175 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 151-175 | Goethe University Frankfurt | Germany |
| 151-175 | University of Kiel | Germany |
| 151-175 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 151-175 | University of Montreal | Canada |
| 151-175 | University of Otago | New Zealand |
| 151-175 | University of Potsdam | Germany |
| 151-175 | Queen’s University Belfast | United Kingdom |
| 151-175 | Renmin University of China | China |
| 151-175 | Rice University | United States |
| 151-175 | Royal Holloway, University of London | United Kingdom |
| 151-175 | University of Sussex | United Kingdom |
| 151-175 | University College Dublin | Ireland |
| 151-175 | Vanderbilt University | United States |
| 151-175 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 176-200 | Aalto University | Finland |
| 176-200 | University of Antwerp | Belgium |
| 176-200 | Autonomous University of Madrid | Spain |
| 176-200 | University of Bordeaux | France |
| 176-200 | Boston College | United States |
| 176-200 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 176-200 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Germany |
| 176-200 | Florida State University | United States |
| 176-200 | Higher School of Economics | Russian Federation |
| 176-200 | La Trobe University | Australia |
| 176-200 | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium |
| 176-200 | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom |
| 176-200 | University of Minnesota | United States |
| 176-200 | National Taiwan Normal University | Taiwan |
| 176-200 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom |
| 176-200 | Paris Diderot University – Paris 7 | France |
| 176-200 | Polytechnic University of Milan | Italy |
| 176-200 | University of Reading | United Kingdom |
| 176-200 | University of Rochester | United States |
| 176-200 | Ruhr University Bochum | Germany |
| 176-200 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| 176-200 | Simon Fraser University | Canada |
| 176-200 | Stony Brook University | United States |
| 176-200 | University of Western Australia | Australia |
| 176-200 | University of the Witwatersrand | South Africa |
| 176-200 | University of Wollongong | Australia |
| 201-250 | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 201-250 | Bangor University | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | University of Bath | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | Bielefeld University | Germany |
| 201-250 | University of Bremen | Germany |
| 201-250 | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice | Italy |
| 201-250 | Charles University in Prague | Czech Republic |
| 201-250 | University of Cincinnati | United States |
| 201-250 | University of Colorado Boulder | United States |
| 201-250 | Concordia University | Canada |
| 201-250 | Dublin City University | Ireland |
| 201-250 | George Washington University | United States |
| 201-250 | University of Gothenburg | Sweden |
| 201-250 | University of Graz | Austria |
| 201-250 | University of Iceland | Iceland |
| 201-250 | University of Iowa | United States |
| 201-250 | University of Jyv?skyl? | Finland |
| 201-250 | Kazan Federal University | Russian Federation |
| 201-250 | University of Kent | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | Link?ping University | Sweden |
| 201-250 | Loughborough University | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | University of Marburg | Germany |
| 201-250 | University of Miami | United States |
| 201-250 | Murdoch University | Australia |
| 201-250 | Northeastern University | United States |
| 201-250 | University of Oregon | United States |
| 201-250 | Oxford Brookes University | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | University of Padua | Italy |
| 201-250 | Paris Nanterre University | France |
| 201-250 | Paris-Sud University | France |
| 201-250 | Queensland University of Technology | Australia |
| 201-250 | University of Rovira i Virgili | Spain |
| 201-250 | University of South Australia | Australia |
| 201-250 | University of Southern Denmark | Denmark |
| 201-250 | State University of Campinas | Brazil |
| 201-250 | University of Stirling | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | University of Surrey | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | Tomsk State University | Russian Federation |
| 201-250 | University of Trento | Italy |
| 201-250 | TU Dresden | Germany |
| 201-250 | UiT The Arctic University of Norway | Norway |
| 201-250 | University College Cork | Ireland |
| 201-250 | University of Waikato | New Zealand |
| 201-250 | University of Waterloo | Canada |
| 201-250 | Western University | Canada |
| 201-250 | Western Sydney University | Australia |
| 201-250 | University of Würzburg | Germany |
| 251-300 | Aalborg University | Denmark |
| 251-300 | Bar-Ilan University | Israel |
| 251-300 | University of the Basque Country | Spain |
| 251-300 | University of Calgary | Canada |
| 251-300 | University of California, Riverside | United States |
| 251-300 | University of Canterbury | New Zealand |
| 251-300 | Curtin University | Australia |
| 251-300 | University of East Anglia | United Kingdom |
| 251-300 | Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées | France |
| 251-300 | Flinders University | Australia |
| 251-300 | University of Florida | United States |
| 251-300 | University of Genoa | Italy |
| 251-300 | Griffith University | Australia |
| 251-300 | Hong Kong Baptist University | Hong Kong |
| 251-300 | University of Illinois at Chicago | United States |
| 251-300 | University of Innsbruck | Austria |
| 251-300 | Justus Liebig University Giessen | Germany |
| 251-300 | University of Liège | Belgium |
| 251-300 | University of Lisbon | Portugal |
| 251-300 | University of Mannheim | Germany |
| 251-300 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 251-300 | University of Missouri | United States |
| 251-300 | Nagoya University | Japan |
| 251-300 | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | Greece |
| 251-300 | National University of Ireland, Galway | Ireland |
| 251-300 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | United States |
| 251-300 | University of Neuchatel | Switzerland |
| 251-300 | NOVA University of Lisbon | Portugal |
| 251-300 | University of Oklahoma | United States |
| 251-300 | University of Ottawa | Canada |
| 251-300 | University of Oulu | Finland |
| 251-300 | University of Pavia | Italy |
| 251-300 | University of Pisa | Italy |
| 251-300 | Polytechnic University of Catalonia | Spain |
| 251-300 | University of Pretoria | South Africa |
| 251-300 | University of Québec | Canada |
| 251-300 | Queen’s University | Canada |
| 251-300 | RMIT University | Australia |
| 251-300 | University of Siena | Italy |
| 251-300 | Stellenbosch University | South Africa |
| 251-300 | University of Strasbourg | France |
| 251-300 | University of Tampere | Finland |
| 251-300 | University of Technology Sydney | Australia |
| 251-300 | Texas A&M University | United States |
| 251-300 | Tufts University | United States |
| 251-300 | University of Turku | Finland |
| 251-300 | Ume? University | Sweden |
| 251-300 | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Belgium |
| 251-300 | Waseda University | Japan |
| 251-300 | Yonsei University (Seoul campus) | South Korea |
| 301-400 | Aberystwyth University | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | American University | United States |
| 301-400 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece |
| 301-400 | University of Arkansas | United States |
| 301-400 | Australian Catholic University | Australia |
| 301-400 | Babe?-Bolyai University | Romania |
| 301-400 | University of Bari Aldo Moro | Italy |
| 301-400 | Baylor University | United States |
| 301-400 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | Israel |
| 301-400 | Binghamton University, State University of New York | United States |
| 301-400 | Brandeis University | United States |
| 301-400 | Brunel University London | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | University at Buffalo | United States |
| 301-400 | Carleton University | Canada |
| 301-400 | Carlos III University of Madrid | Spain |
| 301-400 | Case Western Reserve University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Chile | Chile |
| 301-400 | University of Coimbra | Portugal |
| 301-400 | University of Colorado Denver | United States |
| 301-400 | Colorado State University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of C?te d’Azur | France |
| 301-400 | University of Cyprus | Cyprus |
| 301-400 | Dalhousie University | Canada |
| 301-400 | Deakin University | Australia |
| 301-400 | University of Delaware | United States |
| 301-400 | Drexel University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Dundee | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | University of Eastern Finland | Finland |
| 301-400 | E?tv?s Loránd University | Hungary |
| 301-400 | Federal University of Minas Gerais | Brazil |
| 301-400 | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
| 301-400 | Federal University of Santa Catarina | Brazil |
| 301-400 | University of Florence | Italy |
| 301-400 | George Mason University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Georgia | United States |
| 301-400 | Georgia State University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Granada | Spain |
| 301-400 | Grenoble Alpes University | France |
| 301-400 | University of Haifa | Israel |
| 301-400 | University of Hertfordshire | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | University of Hull | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | Iowa State University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Johannesburg | South Africa |
| 301-400 | University of Kansas | United States |
| 301-400 | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia | Malaysia |
| 301-400 | Kent State University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of KwaZulu-Natal | South Africa |
| 301-400 | Laval University | Canada |
| 301-400 | University of Lille | France |
| 301-400 | University of Limerick | Ireland |
| 301-400 | University of Malaya | Malaysia |
| 301-400 | Masaryk University | Czech Republic |
| 301-400 | Maynooth University | Ireland |
| 301-400 | Middle East Technical University | Turkey |
| 301-400 | Middlesex University | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | University of Milan | Italy |
| 301-400 | University of Minho | Portugal |
| 301-400 | University of Navarra | Spain |
| 301-400 | University of Newcastle | Australia |
| 301-400 | University of North Carolina at Greensboro | United States |
| 301-400 | North Carolina State University | United States |
| 301-400 | Northern Arizona University | United States |
| 301-400 | Northumbria University | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norway |
| 301-400 | The Open University | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | Oregon State University | United States |
| 301-400 | Plymouth University | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | Polytechnic University of Valencia | Spain |
| 301-400 | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | Chile |
| 301-400 | Portland State University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Porto | Portugal |
| 301-400 | University of Roehampton | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | University of Rome III | Italy |
| 301-400 | Saint Louis University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Salamanca | Spain |
| 301-400 | San Diego State University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Saskatchewan | Canada |
| 301-400 | Southeast University | China |
| 301-400 | University of South Florida | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Strathclyde | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | Swansea University | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | Swinburne University of Technology | Australia |
| 301-400 | Syracuse University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Tartu | Estonia |
| 301-400 | University of Tasmania | Australia |
| 301-400 | Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | Malaysia |
| 301-400 | Temple University | United States |
| 301-400 | The University of Texas-Knoxville | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Texas at Dallas | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Texas at San Antonio | United States |
| 301-400 | Tongji University | China |
| 301-400 | University of Turin | Italy |
| 301-400 | Ulster University | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | University of Utah | United States |
| 301-400 | University of Victoria | Canada |
| 301-400 | University of Warsaw | Poland |
| 301-400 | Washington State University | United States |
| 301-400 | University of the West of England | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | University of the Western Cape | South Africa |
| 301-400 | University of Westminster | United Kingdom |
| 301-400 | William & Mary | United States |