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——表演艺术专业 |
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| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | The Juilliard School |
| 2 | Royal College of Music |
| 3 | Royal Academy of Music |
| 4 | University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna |
| 5 | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Formerly Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) |
| 6 | Sibelius Academy |
| 7 | Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) |
| 8 | Curtis Institute of Music |
| 9 | New York University (NYU) |
| 10 | Harvard University |
| 11 | Royal Holloway University of London |
| 12 | Northwestern University |
| 13 | University of Oxford |
| 14 | Royal Holloway University of London |
| 14 | University of Cambridge |
| 16 | Indiana University Bloomington |
| 17 | Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta |
| 18 | Yale University |
| 19 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 20 | Stanford University |
| 21 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 22 | Monash University |
| 23 | Queen Mary University of London |
| 24 | The University of Melbourne |
| 25 | Columbia University |
| 26 | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| 27 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 27 | The University of Tokyo |
| 29 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 30 | Conservatorio Santa Cecilia |
| 30 | Princeton University |
| 32 | Central School of Speech & Drama |
| 33 | University of Rochester |
| 34 | The Australian National University |
| 35 | Norwegian Academy of Music |
| 36 | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| 37 | Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus |
| 37 | University of Chicago |
| 39 | City University of New York |
| 40 | King’s College London |
| 40 | The Royal Danish Academy of Music |
| 42 | Griffith University |
| 42 | University of British Columbia |
| 44 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 45 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 46 | The University of Manchester |
| 47 | University of Toronto |
| 48 | Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon |
| 49 | University of Amsterdam |
| 50 | Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg |
| 50 | The University of Western Australia |
