The 2014-2015 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Arts and Humanities table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 100 universities for arts and humanities employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

Top 100 universities for arts and humanities 2014-2015

Rank Institution Location Overall score
1 Stanford University United States
88.6
2 Harvard University United States
86.6
3 University of Chicago United States
85.9
4 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
84.7
5 University of Oxford United Kingdom
84.2
6 Princeton University United States
82.9
7 Yale University United States
82.1
8 University College London (UCL) United Kingdom
80.8
9 University of California, Berkeley United States
80.6
10 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States
79.8
11 Columbia University United States
79.4
12 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
77.9
13 University of Pennsylvania United States
76.4
14 New York University (NYU) United States
76.2
15
University of Toronto
Canada
75.6
16 Australian National University Australia
75.2
17 University of Michigan United States
74.4
18 University of Sydney Australia
72.1
19 University of Melbourne Australia
71.9
20 Duke University United States
71.1
21 Cornell University United States
70.7
22 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany
70.4
23 King's College London United Kingdom
69.7
24 Freie Universität Berlin Germany
67.4
25 Leiden University Netherlands
65.9
26 McGill University Canada
65.2
27 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany
65.1
28 University of Manchester United Kingdom
64.6
29 University of Texas at Austin United States
63.7
30 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States
63.4
31 Universität Heidelberg Germany
61.8
32 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey United States
60.6
33 University of St Andrews United Kingdom
60.4
34 Durham University United Kingdom
60.0
35 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States
59.3
36 Lancaster University United Kingdom
59.0
37 Brown University United States
58.3
38 University of Vienna Austria
57.9
39 University of Notre Dame United States
57.7
40
University of British Columbia
Canada
57.3
41 KU Leuven Belgium
56.8
42
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
56.7
43
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
56.0
44
Monash University
Australia
55.6
45 University of Amsterdam Netherlands
55.1
46 University of Warwick United Kingdom
53.7
47 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany
53.6
48 University of Massachusetts United States
53.3
49 Birkbeck, University of London United Kingdom
51.9
50 École Normale Supérieure France
51.8
51 University of Birmingham United Kingdom
50.8
52 University of Southern California United States
50.3
53 University of Pittsburgh United States
50.1
54 University of Auckland New Zealand
49.8
55 University of California, Santa Barbara United States
49.5
56 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom
48.6
57 Georgetown University United States
48.5
58 Northwestern University United States
47.7
59 Ohio State University United States
47.5
59 University of Leeds United Kingdom
47.5
61 University of Glasgow United Kingdom
47.0
62 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign United States
46.4
63 University of Virginia United States
46.0
64
University of York
United Kingdom
45.9
65 University of Helsinki Finland
45.3
65 University of Exeter United Kingdom
45.3
67 University of Queensland Australia Australia
45.1
67 Macquarie University Australia
45.1
69 Ghent University Belgium
44.8
70 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
44.7
71 Boston University United States
44.6
72 National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexico
44.3
73 University of Nottingham United Kingdom
44.2
74 Lund University Sweden
43.6
75 Utrecht University Netherlands
43.5
75 Emory University United States
43.5
77 Sapienza University of Rome Italy
42.7
78 University of Bristol United Kingdom
42.1
79 University of California, Santa Cruz United States
41.7
80 University of Cape Town South Africa
41.1
81
University of Groningen
Netherlands
40.6
82 University of Zürich Switzerland
40.5
83 Stockholm University Sweden
39.8
84 University of Bologna Italy
39.7
85 University of Washington United States
39.3
85 University of Maryland, College Park United States
39.3
87 University of Sheffield United Kingdom
39.0
87 Complutense University of Madrid Spain
39.0
87 VU University Amsterdam Netherlands
39.0
90 Autonomous University of Barcelona Spain
38.8
91 Aarhus University Denmark
38.7
92 Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand
38.3
92
Radboud University
Netherlands
38.3
94 University of Minnesota United States
38.2
94 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
38.2
96 Tel Aviv University Israel
37.6
97 York University Canada
37.2
98 University of California, Irvine United States
36.6
99 La Trobe University Australia
36.4
100 University of New South Wales Australia
36.3
100 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Germany
36.3

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Arts and Humanities subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas, defined by our data partners Thomson Reuters.

The full list of Arts and Humanities subjects used to create this ranking is:

  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Asian Studies
  • Classics
  • Cultural Studies
  • Dance
  • Film, Radio & Television
  • History
  • History & Philosophy of Science
  • Languages, Philology and Linguistic Studies
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Theatre
  • Theology & Religion
  • Arts & Humanities - Other topics