2018年QS世界大学排名已正式发布，QS世界大学排名被视为目前世界最具影响力的排名之一，本次排名涵盖46个不同学术领域的11000余个位次，是目前为止最大规模也是最复杂的大学排名。其专业排名自2011年以来每年发布，排名主要依据学术声誉、雇主声誉和科研影响力三方面。不同学科排名方法不同，反映出不同的关注重点和数据可用性。
| 2018年QS世界大学排名——政治国际研究学专业 | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | Harvard University |
| 2 | University of Oxford |
| 3 | Princeton University |
| 4 | Sciences Po |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 6 | University of Cambridge |
| 7 | Yale University |
| 8 | The Australian National University |
| 9 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 10 | Columbia University |
| 11 | Georgetown University |
| 12 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 13 | University of Chicago |
| 14 | University of Toronto |
| 15 | The University of Tokyo |
| 16 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 17 | Stanford University |
| 18 | The University of Sydney |
| 18 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 20 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 21 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 22 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 23 | SOAS University of London |
| 24 | George Washington University |
| 24 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 26 | Peking University |
| 27 | King’s College London |
| 27 | University of Michigan |
| 29 | Seoul National University |
| 29 | University of Copenhagen |
| 31 | Leiden University |
| 31 | The University of Melbourne |
| 31 | University of Amsterdam |
| 34 | New York University (NYU) |
| 35 | Tsinghua University |
| 36 | Cornell University |
| 37 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| 37 | University College London |
| 37 | University of British Columbia |
| 37 | University of Essex |
| 41 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 42 | The University of Warwick |
| 43 | Duke University |
| 43 | McGill University |
| 43 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin |
| 46 | Waseda University |
| 47 | Korea University |
| 48 | Fudan University |
| 49 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 50 | The University of Manchester |
