* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Rank	University	Country/Region	Overall	Academic Reputation	Employer Reputation
1	The Juilliard School	United States	92.9	93.1	91.9
2	Royal College of Music	United Kingdom	92.2	94	84.9
3	Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien	Austria	91.9	100	59.6
4	Royal Academy of Music	United Kingdom	88.5	89.4	84.9
5	New York University (NYU)	United States	87.7	84.6	100
6	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	United Kingdom	85.5	92.2	58.9
7	Curtis Institute of Music	United States	83.7	89.9	59
7	Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts	Hong Kong SAR	83.7	87.4	68.7
9	Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Formerly Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama)	United Kingdom	82.9	88.5	60.7
10	Harvard University	United States	81.4	78.1	94.6
11	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	80.9	77.4	95.1
12	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	80.8	77.5	93.9
13	University of the Arts Helsinki	Finland	80	81.7	73.2
14	Royal Holloway University of London	United Kingdom	79.3	83.1	64
15	The University of Sydney	Australia	78.8	75.7	91.1
16	The University of Melbourne	Australia	78.7	77.3	84.1
17	Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP)	France	78.4	90.9	28.5
18	Yale University	United States	78.1	76.4	84.8
19	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	77.7	76	84.6
20	Monash University	Australia	77.4	74.4	89.5
20	Stanford University	United States	77.4	75.3	86
22	University Mozarteum Salzburg	Austria	77.3	87.5	36.6
23	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	77.1	78.4	71.8
23	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	77.1	75.4	84.1
25	Columbia University	United States	76.7	75.2	82.6
26	Northwestern University	United States	76.6	79.2	66.2
27	University of Huddersfield	United Kingdom	76	73.7	85.1
27	University of Rochester	United States	76	76.8	72.7
29	Norwegian Academy of Music	Norway	75.8	85.7	36.4
30	Royal College of Music in Stockholm	Sweden	75.4	85.5	35.1
31	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	75.2	76	72
32	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	74.1	70.2	89.9
33	The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama	United Kingdom	73.9	83.2	36.6
34	McGill University	Canada	73.8	74.9	69.3
35	University of Chicago	United States	73.7	70.9	85.1
36	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	73.4	71	83.1
37	The Australian National University	Australia	72.7	68.7	88.9
38	Korea National University of Arts	South Korea	72.2	70.1	80.8
38	The Royal Danish Academy of Music	Denmark	72.2	81.6	34.7
40	The Central Academy of Drama, China	China (Mainland)	71.9	75.2	58.7
41	University of Toronto	Canada	71.8	71	75
42	King's College London	United Kingdom	71.6	68.3	84.6
43	Princeton University	United States	70.9	73.1	62.3
44	Moscow State Conservatory P. I. Tchaikovsky	Russia	70.5	80	32.4
45	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	70.4	70.3	70.6
46	Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin	Germany	70.3	78.8	36.4
47	The Liszt Academy of Music	Hungary	70.2	78.6	36.8
48	Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg	Germany	69.9	78.2	36.9
49	Griffith University	Australia	69.8	70.4	67.3
49	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	69.8	70.2	68.2
51-100	Birmingham City University	United Kingdom		61.2	72.1
51-100	Brown University	United States		70.1	58.5
51-100	California Institute of the Arts	United States		63.3	70.4
51-100	Carnegie Mellon University	United States		65.7	69.6
51-100	City, University of London	United Kingdom		60.1	76.6
51-100	City University of New York	United States		70.4	44.3
51-100	Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon	France		69.9	36.4
51-100	Edith Cowan University	Australia		61.3	79.9
51-100	Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre	Estonia		71.9	57.8
51-100	Florida State University	United States		67.3	66.3
51-100	Goldsmiths, University of London	United Kingdom		68.9	69.4
51-100	Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln	Germany		75.1	37
51-100	Hochschule für Musik und Theater München	Germany		71.7	36.4
51-100	Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta	Indonesia		71.1	37
51-100	Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre	Lithuania		69	42.8
51-100	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States		63.8	87.9
51-100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan		61.2	71.2
51-100	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom		64.6	67.5
51-100	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia		62.2	86.6
51-100	St. Petersburg Conservatory	Russia		69.1	42.2
51-100	Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus	Denmark		76.6	36.5
51-100	Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM)	United Kingdom		67.2	69
51-100	Seoul National University	South Korea		68.6	72.8
51-100	Sorbonne University	France		64.3	88
51-100	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong SAR		62.6	80.6
51-100	The University of Queensland	Australia		64	78.6
51-100	The University of Tokyo	Japan		63.1	72.9
51-100	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom		68.7	71.8
51-100	The University of Western Australia	Australia		62.7	89.7
51-100	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	Ireland		67.8	65.6
51-100	Trinity College of Music	United Kingdom		66.6	59.1
51-100	Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance	United Kingdom		65.9	82.7
51-100	UCSI University	Malaysia		68.2	68.2
51-100	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico		58.7	83.3
51-100	Université de Montréal	Canada		71.3	45
51-100	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands		66.3	51.5
51-100	University of Basel	Switzerland		61.6	75
51-100	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom		66.2	65.4
51-100	University of Bristol	United Kingdom		66.8	67.4
51-100	University of British Columbia	Canada		66.2	75.9
51-100	University of California, Davis	United States		67.2	63.8
51-100	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom		69.8	59.7
51-100	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom		70	67.7
51-100	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR		63.8	86.4
51-100	University of Kent	United Kingdom		67.2	50.4
51-100	University of Leeds	United Kingdom		65.5	81.4
51-100	University of Otago	New Zealand		60.6	77.7
51-100	University of Southern California	United States		71.9	60.3
51-100	University of Texas at Austin	United States		66.3	63.3
51-100	University of the Philippines	Philippines		60	77.6
51-100	University of Washington	United States		64.3	58.9
51-100	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand		61.3	89.3

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