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——发展学专业 | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | University of Sussex |
| 2 | Harvard University |
| 3 | University of Oxford |
| 4 | SOAS University of London |
| 5 | University of Cambridge |
| 6 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 7 | The London School of Economics and Political Science |
| 8 | Stanford University |
| 9 | The Australian National University |
| 10 | University of Copenhagen |
| 11 | University of Cape Town |
| 12 | University of East Anglia (UEA) |
| 13 | Wageningen University |
| 14 | The University of Manchester |
| 15 | University of Toronto |
| 16 | The University of Melbourne |
| 17 | University of Delhi |
| 18 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 18 | University of the Witwatersrand |
| 20 | Princeton University |
| 21 | The University of Sydney |
| 22 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 23 | University of Chicago |
| 24 | The University of Queensland |
| 25 | The University of Tokyo |
| 26 | Brown University |
| 26 | University of Amsterdam |
| 28 | Lund University |
| 29 | King’s College London |
| 30 | Universiti Malaya (UM) |
| 31 | University of California, Davis |
| 32 | Duke University |
| 33 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) |
| 34 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 35 | Uppsala University |
| 36 | University of Birmingham |
| 37 | Michigan State University |
| 38 | University of Leeds |
| 39 | McGill University |
| 39 | University of Otago |
| 41 | City University of Hong Kong |
| 41 | The University of Auckland |
| 43 | Arizona State University |
| 44 | Stellenbosch University |
| 45 | University of Bristol |
| 46 | KU Leuven |
| 47 | The University of Sheffield |
| 48 | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 49 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 50 | Makerere University |
