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——心理学专业 | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | Harvard University |
| 2 | Stanford University |
| 3 | 剑桥大学University of Cambridge |
| 3 | 牛津大学University of Oxford |
| 5 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 6 | 伦敦大学学院University College London |
| 7 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 7 | Yale University |
| 9 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 10 | University of Michigan |
| 11 | New York University (NYU) |
| 12 | Columbia University |
| 13 | University of British Columbia |
| 13 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 15 | 墨尔本大学The University of Melbourne |
| 16 | Princeton University |
| 17 | University of Amsterdam |
| 18 | University of Chicago |
| 18 | University of Toronto |
| 20 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) |
| 21 | 伦敦国王学院King’s College London |
| 22 | Northwestern University |
| 23 | McGill University |
| 24 | 爱丁堡大学The University of Edinburgh |
| 25 | 悉尼大学The University of Sydney |
| 26 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 27 | 昆士兰大学The University of Queensland |
| 28 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 29 | KU Leuven |
| 29 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 31 | Duke University |
| 32 | 埃克塞特大学University of Exeter |
| 33 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 34 | Boston University |
| 35 | 伦敦政治经济学院The London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 36 | The University of Auckland |
| 36 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 38 | 蒙纳士大学Monash University |
| 39 | Ghent University |
| 40 | 卡迪夫大学Cardiff University |
| 40 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 40 | 布里斯托大学University of Bristol |
| 40 | University of Groningen |
| 44 | 澳大利亚国立大学The Australian National University |
| 45 | Cornell University |
| 46 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 47 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 47 | 曼彻斯特大学The University of Manchester |
| 49 | University of Minnesota |
| 50 | University of Virginia |
