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——药学与药理学专业 | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | Harvard University |
| 2 | 蒙纳士大学Monash University |
| 3 | 剑桥大学University of Cambridge |
| 4 | 牛津大学University of Oxford |
| 5 | University of California, San Francisco |
| 6 | 诺丁汉大学The University of Nottingham |
| 7 | 伦敦大学学院University College London |
| 8 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 9 | 伦敦国王学院King’s College London |
| 10 | Karolinska Institutet |
| 11 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 12 | The University of Tokyo |
| 12 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 14 | Yale University |
| 15 | University of Toronto |
| 16 | 曼彻斯特大学The University of Manchester |
| 17 | 帝国理工学院Imperial College London |
| 18 | 悉尼大学The University of Sydney |
| 19 | University of Michigan |
| 20 | Seoul National University |
| 21 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 22 | Purdue University |
| 23 | University of Copenhagen |
| 24 | Leiden University |
| 25 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| 25 | 昆士兰大学The University of Queensland |
| 27 | Uppsala University |
| 28 | KU Leuven |
| 29 | Peking University |
| 29 | University of British Columbia |
| 31 | University of Geneva |
| 32 | University of Minnesota |
| 32 | University of Washington |
| 34 | McGill University |
| 35 | Kyoto University |
| 36 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 37 | Utrecht University |
| 38 | University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) |
| 39 | National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| 40 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 41 | 墨尔本大学The University of Melbourne |
| 42 | University of Southern California |
| 43 | Duke University |
| 44 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 45 | Columbia University |
| 46 | University of Milan |
| 47 | Université de Montréal |
| 47 | University of Alberta |
| 47 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 50 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
