2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject - Performing Arts

Released on March 1, 2018

* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Rank	University	Country Name	Overall Score	Academic Reputation	Employer Reputation
1	The Juilliard School	United States	97.8	100	77.6
2	Royal College of Music	United Kingdom	97.4	99.6	77.7
3	Royal Academy of Music	United Kingdom	94.5	96.4	77.7
4	University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna	Austria	91.7	91.8	90.5
5	Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Formerly Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama)	United Kingdom	90.3	91.7	77.6
6	Sibelius Academy	Finland	88.8	94.5	37.3
7	Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP)	France	88.5	94.1	37.6
8	Curtis Institute of Music	United States	88.1	89.3	77.7
9	New York University (NYU)	United States	87.6	87.4	89
10	Harvard University	United States	84.4	83.5	92
11	Royal College of Music in Stockholm	Sweden	84.2	88.6	44.8
12	Northwestern University	United States	84.1	84.9	76.6
13	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	83.8	83	91
14	Royal Holloway University of London	United Kingdom	83.7	87.6	48.7
14	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	83.7	82.8	91.5
16	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	81.8	83	71.3
17	Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta	Indonesia	81.5	86.4	37.4
18	Yale University	United States	81.4	81.6	79.2
19	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	81	81.1	80.5
20	Stanford University	United States	79.8	79.4	83.1
21	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	79	80	69.6
22	Monash University	Australia	78.6	76.3	99.5
23	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	78.2	78.5	75.6
24	The University of Melbourne	Australia	77.3	74.8	100
25	Columbia University	United States	77.2	77.9	70.9
26	Goldsmiths, University of London	United Kingdom	77	77.9	68.9
27	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	76.8	77.2	73.5
27	The University of Tokyo	Japan	76.8	77.4	71.1
29	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	76.6	75.5	86.2
30	Conservatorio Santa Cecilia	Italy	76.4	80.7	37.3
30	Princeton University	United States	76.4	78.5	57.9
32	Central School of Speech & Drama	United Kingdom	76.2	80.5	37.6
33	University of Rochester	United States	76.1	77.3	64.9
34	The Australian National University	Australia	76	73.6	97.2
35	Norwegian Academy of Music	Norway	75.5	79.7	37.3
36	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	United Kingdom	75.4	75.1	77.7
37	Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus	Denmark	75.2	79.4	37.8
37	University of Chicago	United States	75.2	74.7	79.9
39	City University of New York	United States	75.1	77.9	49.4
40	King's College London	United Kingdom	74.8	74	82.3
40	The Royal Danish Academy of Music	Denmark	74.8	78.1	44.6
42	Griffith University	Australia	74.5	75.6	64.3
42	University of British Columbia	Canada	74.5	75.5	65.5
44	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	74.2	74.1	75.3
45	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	73.7	76.8	46.1
46	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	73.3	73.4	72
47	University of Toronto	Canada	73	74.1	63.1
48	Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon	France	72.7	76.6	37.3
49	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	71.9	74.8	45.4
50	Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg	Germany	71.8	75.6	37.3
50	The University of Western Australia	Australia	71.8	70.3	84.9
51-100	Berkeley College	United States		65.9	76
51-100	Brown University	United States		68.2	73.8
51-100	Carnegie Mellon University	United States		67.9	81.3
51-100	Conservatoire de Musique de Genève	Switzerland		72.9	37.3
51-100	Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin	Germany		73.8	37.3
51-100	Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln	Germany		68.4	37.3
51-100	Hochschule für Musik und Theater München	Germany		71	37.3
51-100	Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts	Hong Kong		62.7	77.8
51-100	Jakarta Institute for the Arts	Indonesia		67.9	37.7
51-100	Johns Hopkins University	United States		65.8	62.4
51-100	Korea National University of Arts	South Korea		71.8	37.3
51-100	Kyoto University	Japan		67.2	63.7
51-100	Macquarie University	Australia		65.1	90.6
51-100	McGill University	Canada		70.2	66.6
51-100	Michigan State University	United States		69.3	70.6
51-100	Osaka University	Japan		70.9	56.8
51-100	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	Chile		63.4	73.6
51-100	Purchase College SUNY	United States		70.1	31.3
51-100	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia		63.2	82.6
51-100	Seoul National University	South Korea		66.6	79.3
51-100	SOAS University of London	United Kingdom		67.8	50.3
51-100	Temple University	United States		70.9	55
51-100	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong		69.8	69.6
51-100	The University of Auckland	New Zealand		68.2	95.8
51-100	The University of Queensland	Australia		66.5	65.6
51-100	The University of Sydney	Australia		66.3	97.3
51-100	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom		68.2	68.5
51-100	UCSI University	Malaysia		66.8	45.1
51-100	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico		63.4	76.4
51-100	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil		64.8	72.7
51-100	Universität der Künste Berlin	Germany		73.9
51-100	Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3	France		66.8	66.3
51-100	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia		67.9	73.8
51-100	University Mozarteum Salzburg	Austria		67.8	37.3
51-100	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom		71.2	72.8
51-100	University of Bristol	United Kingdom		66.9	65.4
51-100	University of California, Davis	United States		68.7	52
51-100	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States		69.4	44.8
51-100	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom		65.6	62.3
51-100	The University of Exeter	United Kingdom		66.4	59.8
51-100	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom		71.6	59.2
51-100	University of Michigan	United States		71.5	73.2
51-100	University of Otago	New Zealand		66	84.3
51-100	University of Southampton	United Kingdom		70.8	65.3
51-100	University of Southern California	United States		71.8	51.5
51-100	University of Texas at Austin	United States		73.9	49.7
51-100	Utrecht University	Netherlands		66.9	59.8
51-100	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand		68.8	89.4
51-100	Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)	Switzerland		73.3	37.3

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