World's Top 50 Universities in Arts & Humanities in 2011-2012

By EasyUni Staff | Last modified 11 Nov 2017

While the arts and humanities ranking, like all the others, is predominantly US and UK universities, it is the only subject area where an institution outside the US and the UK makes the top five.

The Australian National University, based in Canberra and alma mater of Kevin Rudd, the former prime minister, is ranked equal fourth alongside Princeton University.

It leads a list of three Australian institutions in the top 20, with the universities of Sydney and Melbourne taking 18th and 19th place respectively.

1	Stanford University	United States
2	Harvard University	United States
3	University of Chicago	United States
4	Australian National University	Australia
4	Princeton University	United States
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
7	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
8	University College London	United Kingdom
8	University of California Berkeley	United States
10	University of Toronto	Canada
11	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
12	Yale University	United States
13	University of Michigan	United States
14	University of California Los Angeles	United States
15	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States
16	New York University	United States
17	Cornell University	United States
18	The University of Sydney	Australia
19	University of Melbourne	Australia
20	University of Texas at Austin	United States
21	McGill University	Canada
22	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
23	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
24	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
25	University of Pittsburgh	United States
26	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany
27	Brown University	United States
28	University of British Columbia	Canada
29	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany
30	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
31	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany
32	University of Arizona	United States
33	University of Massachusetts	United States
34	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
35	Leiden University	Netherlands
36	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
37	Indiana University	United States
38	National University of Singapore	Singapore
39	King's College London	United Kingdom
40	University of California San Diego	United States
41	Universität Heidelberg	Germany
42	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium
43	University of Auckland	New Zealand
44	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
45	Utrecht University	Netherlands
46	The Ohio State University	United States
47	University of Vienna	Austria
48	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany
48	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
50	University of Notre Dame	United States

Posted on 09 Oct 2017

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