World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Communication

2026 edition, Communication. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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1 University of Amsterdam 1st in the world for Communication
2 University of Vienna 2nd in the world for Communication
3 Pennsylvania State University 3rd in the world for Communication
4 University of Texas at Austin 4th in the world for Communication
5 Michigan State University 5th in the world for Communication
6 Ohio State University 6th in the world for Communication
7 Chinese University of Hong Kong 7th in the world for Communication
8 University of Minnesota 8th in the world for Communication
9 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 9th in the world for Communication
10 Nanyang Technological University 10th in the world for Communication
11 University of Pennsylvania 11th in the world for Communication
12 Northwestern University 12th in the world for Communication
13 University of Zurich 13th in the world for Communication
14 University of California, Davis 14th in the world for Communication
15 University of Wisconsin-Madison 15th in the world for Communication
16 KU Leuven 16th in the world for Communication
17 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 17th in the world for Communication
=18 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 18th in the world for Communication
=18 University of Southern California 18th in the world for Communication
20 University of Colorado Boulder 20th in the world for Communication
21 Loughborough University 21st in the world for Communication
22 University at Buffalo, State University of New York 22nd in the world for Communication
23 Freie Universität Berlin 23rd in the world for Communication
24 University of California, Santa Barbara 24th in the world for Communication
25 Boston University 25th in the world for Communication
26 Northeastern University 26th in the world for Communication
27 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 27th in the world for Communication
28 University of Groningen 28th in the world for Communication
29 University of Oxford 29th in the world for Communication
30 University of Georgia 30th in the world for Communication
31 University of Florida 31st in the world for Communication
32 University of Arizona 32nd in the world for Communication
33 Indiana University Bloomington 33rd in the world for Communication
34 City University of Hong Kong 34th in the world for Communication
35 National University of Singapore 35th in the world for Communication
36 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 36th in the world for Communication
=37 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 37th in the world for Communication
=37 University of Missouri 37th in the world for Communication
39 Radboud University Nijmegen 39th in the world for Communication
40 University of Connecticut 40th in the world for Communication
41 Hong Kong Baptist University 41st in the world for Communication
42 University of Illinois Chicago 42nd in the world for Communication
43 London School of Economics and Political Science 43rd in the world for Communication
44 University of Sydney 44th in the world for Communication
45 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 45th in the world for Communication
46 Erasmus University Rotterdam 46th in the world for Communication
47 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 47th in the world for Communication
48 University of Toronto 48th in the world for Communication
=49 Cornell University 49th in the world for Communication
=49 Washington State University 49th in the world for Communication
=51 New York University 51st in the world for Communication
=51 RMIT University 51st in the world for Communication
=51 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 51st in the world for Communication
=51 Stanford University 51st in the world for Communication
=51 Tsinghua University 51st in the world for Communication
=51 University of Washington 51st in the world for Communication
=51 Monash University 51st in the world for Communication
=51 University of New South Wales 51st in the world for Communication
=51 Utrecht University 51st in the world for Communication
=51 Ghent University 51st in the world for Communication
=51 Queensland University of Technology 51st in the world for Communication
=51 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 51st in the world for Communication
=76 Deakin University 76th in the world for Communication
=76 King's College London 76th in the world for Communication
=76 Yonsei University 76th in the world for Communication
=76 University of Queensland 76th in the world for Communication
=76 University of Copenhagen 76th in the world for Communication
=76 Fudan University 76th in the world for Communication
=76 Purdue University 76th in the world for Communication
=76 University of Glasgow 76th in the world for Communication
=76 Seoul National University 76th in the world for Communication
=76 University of Warwick 76th in the world for Communication
=76 University of Maryland, College Park 76th in the world for Communication
=76 Arizona State University 76th in the world for Communication
=101 Harvard University 101st in the world for Communication
=101 Korea University 101st in the world for Communication
=101 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 101st in the world for Communication
=101 University of Cambridge 101st in the world for Communication
=101 University of Hong Kong 101st in the world for Communication
=101 University of Manchester 101st in the world for Communication
=101 University of Sheffield 101st in the world for Communication
=101 University of Technology Sydney 101st in the world for Communication
=101 Wageningen University & Research 101st in the world for Communication
=101 Zhejiang University 101st in the world for Communication
=101 Aarhus University 101st in the world for Communication
=101 University of Canberra 101st in the world for Communication
=101 University of Melbourne 101st in the world for Communication
=101 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Communication
=101 University of Leeds 101st in the world for Communication
=101 University of Miami 101st in the world for Communication
=101 Tilburg University 101st in the world for Communication
=101 University of Iowa 101st in the world for Communication
=101 Tel Aviv University 101st in the world for Communication
=101 Jinan University 101st in the world for Communication
=101 University of Utah 101st in the world for Communication
=151 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 McGill University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Peking University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Swinburne University of Technology 151st in the world for Communication
=151 University College London 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Columbia University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 University of California, Berkeley 151st in the world for Communication
=151 University of British Columbia 151st in the world for Communication
=151 University of California, Los Angeles 151st in the world for Communication
=151 University of Exeter 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Curtin University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Texas A&M University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Beijing Normal University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Colorado State University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 University of Nottingham 151st in the world for Communication
=151 University of Bristol 151st in the world for Communication
=151 University of Milan 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Lund University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Western University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Macquarie University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 University of California, Irvine 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Adelaide University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 York University 151st in the world for Communication
=151 University at Albany, State University of New York 151st in the world for Communication
=151 Concordia University 151st in the world for Communication