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——护理学专业 | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2 | University of Toronto |
| 3 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 3 | 曼彻斯特大学The University of Manchester |
| 5 | 伦敦国王学院King’s College London |
| 6 | Yale University |
| 7 | University of Technology Sydney |
| 8 | University of Washington |
| 9 | 南安普顿大学University of Southampton |
| 10 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 11 | Karolinska Institutet |
| 12 | University of Michigan |
| 13 | University of California, San Francisco |
| 14 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 15 | 悉尼大学The University of Sydney |
| 16 | University of Pittsburgh |
| 17 | University of Alberta |
| 18 | 蒙纳士大学Monash University |
| 19 | McMaster University |
| 20 | Duke University |
| 20 | University of British Columbia |
| 22 | National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| 23 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 24 | 迪肯大学Deakin University |
| 25 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 25 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin |
| 27 | 墨尔本大学The University of Melbourne |
| 28 | 诺丁汉大学The University of Nottingham |
| 29 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 30 | 爱丁堡大学The University of Edinburgh |
| 31 | University College Dublin |
| 32 | New York University (NYU) |
| 33 | Columbia University |
| 33 | 阿尔斯特大学University of Ulster |
| 35 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 36 | 昆士兰科技大学Queensland University of Technology |
| 37 | McGill University |
| 38 | 阿德莱德大学University of Adelaide |
| 39 | 昆士兰大学The University of Queensland |
| 40 | University of Miami |
| 41 | 格里菲斯大学Griffith University |
| 41 | The University of Auckland |
| 41 | University of Ottawa |
| 44 | Lund University |
| 44 | University of Turku |
| 46 | University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) |
| 47 | University of Minnesota |
| 48 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 49 | University of Eastern Finland |
| 50 | 英国女王大学Queen’s University Belfast |
