101 universities
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| Rank | Change | University | Country | Score | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | IRN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal College of Art | United Kingdom | 98.5 | 100.0 | 85.4 | — | — | — | |
| 2 | University of the Arts London | United Kingdom | 95.5 | 96.2 | 89.4 | — | — | — | |
| 3 | The New School, New York City and Paris | United States of America | 93.3 | 94.4 | 83.4 | — | — | — | |
| 4 | Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) | United States of America | 93.2 | 95.0 | 77.1 | — | — | — | |
| 5 | 2 | Pratt Institute | United States of America | 87.5 | 88.9 | 74.6 | — | — | — |
| 6 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America | 84.8 | 83.3 | 98.3 | — | — | — |
| 7 | 1 | Politecnico di Milano | Italy | 83.3 | 82.8 | 87.4 | — | — | — |
| 8 | 4 | The Glasgow School of Art | United Kingdom | 82.9 | 84.0 | 72.7 | — | — | — |
| 9 | 1 | Aalto University | Finland | 82.3 | 84.6 | 61.4 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Design Academy Eindhoven | Netherlands | 81.1 | 81.9 | 73.4 | — | — | — | |
| 11 | 2 | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | United States of America | 78.9 | 83.6 | 36.1 | — | — | — |
| 12 | 2 | Art Center College of Design | United States of America | 78.6 | 79.1 | 73.6 | — | — | — |
| 13 | 2 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 77.9 | 77.5 | 81.9 | — | — | — |
| 14 | 7 | Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) | China (Mainland) | 76.4 | 78.5 | 57.1 | — | — | — |
| 15 | 2 | Savannah College of Art and Design | United States of America | 76.2 | 77.1 | 68.0 | — | — | — |
| 16 | 2 | Tongji University | China (Mainland) | 75.4 | 75.3 | 76.4 | — | — | — |
| 17 | 10 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 75.3 | 72.9 | 96.7 | — | — | — |
| 18 | 7 | School of Visual Arts (SVA) | United States of America | 74.6 | 76.3 | 58.9 | — | — | — |
| 19 | 1 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States of America | 74.5 | 74.2 | 77.5 | — | — | — |
| 19 | 7 | RMIT University | Australia | 74.5 | 74.7 | 72.6 | — | — | — |
| 19 | 11 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 74.5 | 72.4 | 93.2 | — | — | — |
| 22 | 12 | The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK) | Denmark | 74.0 | 76.7 | 49.9 | — | — | — |
| 23 | 10 | California Institute of the Arts | United States of America | 73.2 | 74.5 | 61.5 | — | — | — |
| 24 | 2 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong SAR, China | 72.6 | 72.6 | 72.5 | — | — | — |
| 25 | 11 | Tsinghua University | China (Mainland) | 72.3 | 70.4 | 89.5 | — | — | — |
| 26 | 11 | Goldsmiths, University of London | United Kingdom | 71.7 | 72.8 | 61.5 | — | — | — |
| 26 | 25 | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | Austria | 71.7 | 73.0 | 60.0 | — | — | — |
| 28 | 13 | Konstfack University of Arts , Crafts and Design | Sweden | 71.5 | 74.3 | 45.8 | — | — | — |
| 29 | 72 | UCSI University | Malaysia | 71.3 | 71.6 | 68.5 | — | — | — |
| 30 | 6 | Emily Carr University of Art + Design | Canada | 71.2 | 72.9 | 56.0 | — | — | — |
| 31 | 14 | Stanford University | United States of America | 70.9 | 68.1 | 96.5 | — | — | — |
| 32 | 13 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | Singapore | 70.6 | 68.3 | 91.0 | — | — | — |
| 33 | 17 | Yale University | United States of America | 70.5 | 68.6 | 87.5 | — | — | — |
| 34 | 15 | Ecole des Arts Décoratifs - PSL | France | 70.2 | 70.7 | 65.8 | — | — | — |
| 35 | — | Harvard University | United States of America | 70.0 | 66.7 | 100.0 | — | — | — |
| 36 | 14 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America | 69.9 | 68.8 | 79.7 | — | — | — |
| 37 | 14 | Haute Ecole dart et de design de Genève (HEAD) | Switzerland | 69.1 | 69.8 | 63.2 | — | — | — |
| 38 | 13 | École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, ENSCI Les Ateliers | France | 68.7 | 69.0 | 66.3 | — | — | — |
| 39 | 5 | Seoul National University | Republic of Korea | 68.5 | 67.1 | 81.4 | — | — | — |
| 40 | 11 | École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris | France | 68.2 | 71.9 | 34.5 | — | — | — |
| 41 | 5 | Zurich University of the Arts | Switzerland | 68.1 | 71.9 | 33.8 | — | — | — |
| 41 | 10 | NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti | Italy | 68.1 | 68.6 | 63.4 | — | — | — |
| 43 | 11 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 68.0 | 64.9 | 95.8 | — | — | — |
| 43 | 19 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America | 68.0 | 65.9 | 86.5 | — | — | — |
| 45 | 6 | Istituto Marangoni | Italy | 67.7 | 67.3 | 71.4 | — | — | — |
| 46 | 4 | Universität der Künste Berlin | Germany | 67.6 | 69.3 | 52.2 | — | — | — |
| 47 | 4 | California College of the Arts | United States of America | 67.0 | 69.3 | 45.9 | — | — | — |
| 48 | 4 | Hongik University | Republic of Korea | 66.9 | 68.4 | 53.4 | — | — | — |
| 48 | 9 | Loughborough University | United Kingdom | 66.9 | 66.7 | 69.1 | — | — | — |
| 50 | 10 | Tecnológico de Monterrey | Mexico | 66.5 | 64.7 | 82.7 | — | — | — |
| 51 | 5 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands | 66.3 | 66.7 | 62.3 | — | — | — |
| 52 | 1 | Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) | Netherlands | 66.1 | 71.6 | 16.9 | — | — | — |
| 53 | 2 | National College of Art and Design | Ireland | 65.9 | 66.4 | 61.0 | — | — | — |
| 54 | 11 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico | 65.7 | 63.9 | 81.6 | — | — | — |
| 55 | 26 | Peking University | China (Mainland) | 65.6 | 63.0 | 89.4 | — | — | — |
| 56 | 5 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR, China | 65.1 | 63.2 | 82.4 | — | — | — |
| 57 | 6 | Maryland Institute College of Art | United States of America | 65.0 | 67.1 | 45.9 | — | — | — |
| 58 | 14 | UCL | United Kingdom | 64.9 | 62.9 | 83.0 | — | — | — |
| 59 | 8 | Umea University | Sweden | 64.6 | 66.0 | 51.6 | — | — | — |
| 60 | 9 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 64.2 | 62.3 | 80.8 | — | — | — |
| 61 | 10 | Taylor's University | Malaysia | 64.1 | 64.3 | 62.0 | — | — | — |
| 62 | 139 | Domus Academy | Italy | 63.8 | 66.3 | 40.9 | — | — | — |
| 62 | 11 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 63.8 | 61.4 | 85.8 | — | — | — |
| 64 | 13 | Krirk University | Thailand | 63.7 | 64.1 | 60.4 | — | — | — |
| 64 | 13 | Yonsei University | Republic of Korea | 63.7 | 62.6 | 73.6 | — | — | — |
| 66 | 15 | Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien | Austria | 63.5 | 65.8 | 42.8 | — | — | — |
| 67 | 16 | Illinois Institute of Technology | United States of America | 63.4 | 64.4 | 54.3 | — | — | — |
| 67 | 34 | LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore | Singapore | 63.4 | 65.0 | 48.5 | — | — | — |
| 69 | 18 | Politecnico di Torino | Italy | 63.3 | 62.3 | 72.3 | — | — | — |
| 69 | 32 | OCAD University | Canada | 63.3 | 64.0 | 57.2 | — | — | — |
| 69 | 32 | Van Lang University | Viet Nam | 63.3 | 64.1 | 56.4 | — | — | — |
| 72 | 42 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 63.0 | 60.6 | 84.8 | — | — | — |
| 73 | 25 | Columbia University | United States of America | 62.9 | 61.0 | 79.7 | — | — | — |
| 74 | 23 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | Argentina | 62.7 | 60.4 | 83.0 | — | — | — |
| 74 | 23 | Universidad de Palermo (UP) | Argentina | 62.7 | 62.7 | 63.0 | — | — | — |
| 76 | 25 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | Chile | 62.4 | 60.1 | 83.1 | — | — | — |
| 76 | 25 | Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Prague | Czechia | 62.4 | 62.2 | 64.3 | — | — | — |
| 78 | 73 | IED - Istituto Europeo di Design | Italy | 62.3 | 62.4 | 61.5 | — | — | — |
| 79 | 28 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States of America | 62.2 | 60.5 | 77.6 | — | — | — |
| 79 | 28 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States of America | 62.2 | 59.0 | 90.5 | — | — | — |
| 81 | 30 | National Institute of Design, India | India | 62.1 | 63.5 | 49.0 | — | — | — |
| 82 | 31 | Universidad de los Andes | Colombia | 62.0 | 60.3 | 76.9 | — | — | — |
| 83 | 32 | University of Chicago | United States of America | 61.9 | 60.4 | 75.2 | — | — | — |
| 83 | 32 | Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm | Sweden | 61.9 | 63.8 | 44.4 | — | — | — |
| 85 | 34 | University of Technology Sydney | Australia | 61.8 | 61.1 | 68.5 | — | — | — |
| 86 | 35 | Cranbrook Academy of Art | United States of America | 61.7 | 64.8 | 33.8 | — | — | — |
| 87 | 14 | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar | Germany | 61.4 | 62.7 | 49.5 | — | — | — |
| 87 | 36 | Monash University | Australia | 61.4 | 60.0 | 74.0 | — | — | — |
| 89 | 38 | Manchester Metropolitan University | United Kingdom | 61.2 | 62.2 | 51.9 | — | — | — |
| 89 | 38 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 61.2 | 59.6 | 75.9 | — | — | — |
| 91 | — | KFUPM | Saudi Arabia | 61.1 | 60.3 | 68.0 | — | — | — |
| 92 | 59 | Estonian Academy of Arts | Estonia | 60.8 | 63.6 | 35.2 | — | — | — |
| 93 | 42 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia | 60.6 | 58.9 | 75.6 | — | — | — |
| 94 | 107 | China Academy of Art | China (Mainland) | 60.4 | 62.8 | 38.4 | — | — | — |
| 95 | 106 | National Dong Hwa University | Taiwan | 60.3 | 61.1 | 52.6 | — | — | — |
| 96 | 45 | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | 60.2 | 58.8 | 73.2 | — | — | — |
| 96 | — | Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre | Belgium | 60.2 | 61.3 | 50.3 | — | — | — |
| 98 | 47 | Chiba University | Japan | 60.1 | 61.6 | 46.4 | — | — | — |
| 99 | 49 | Cornell University | United States of America | 60.0 | 57.8 | 79.5 | — | — | — |
| 99 | 48 | Zhejiang University | China (Mainland) | 60.0 | 58.0 | 78.3 | — | — | — |
| 2026 | 1 | INSTITUTION | COUNTRY/TERRITORY | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1
Royal College of Art
United Kingdom
98.5·Acad: 100.0·Empl: 85.4
2
University of the Arts London
United Kingdom
95.5·Acad: 96.2·Empl: 89.4
3
The New School, New York City and Paris
United States of America
93.3·Acad: 94.4·Empl: 83.4
4
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
United States of America
93.2·Acad: 95.0·Empl: 77.1
52
Pratt Institute
United States of America
87.5·Acad: 88.9·Empl: 74.6
61
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States of America
84.8·Acad: 83.3·Empl: 98.3
71
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
83.3·Acad: 82.8·Empl: 87.4
84
The Glasgow School of Art
United Kingdom
82.9·Acad: 84.0·Empl: 72.7
91
Aalto University
Finland
82.3·Acad: 84.6·Empl: 61.4
10
Design Academy Eindhoven
Netherlands
81.1·Acad: 81.9·Empl: 73.4
112
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
United States of America
78.9·Acad: 83.6·Empl: 36.1
122
Art Center College of Design
United States of America
78.6·Acad: 79.1·Empl: 73.6
132
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
77.9·Acad: 77.5·Empl: 81.9
147
Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)
China (Mainland)
76.4·Acad: 78.5·Empl: 57.1
152
Savannah College of Art and Design
United States of America
76.2·Acad: 77.1·Empl: 68.0
162
Tongji University
China (Mainland)
75.4·Acad: 75.3·Empl: 76.4
1710
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
75.3·Acad: 72.9·Empl: 96.7
187
School of Visual Arts (SVA)
United States of America
74.6·Acad: 76.3·Empl: 58.9
191
Carnegie Mellon University
United States of America
74.5·Acad: 74.2·Empl: 77.5
197
RMIT University
Australia
74.5·Acad: 74.7·Empl: 72.6
1911
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
74.5·Acad: 72.4·Empl: 93.2
2212
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK)
Denmark
74.0·Acad: 76.7·Empl: 49.9
2310
California Institute of the Arts
United States of America
73.2·Acad: 74.5·Empl: 61.5
242
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong SAR, China
72.6·Acad: 72.6·Empl: 72.5
2511
Tsinghua University
China (Mainland)
72.3·Acad: 70.4·Empl: 89.5
2611
Goldsmiths, University of London
United Kingdom
71.7·Acad: 72.8·Empl: 61.5
2625
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Austria
71.7·Acad: 73.0·Empl: 60.0
2813
Konstfack University of Arts , Crafts and Design
Sweden
71.5·Acad: 74.3·Empl: 45.8
2972
UCSI University
Malaysia
71.3·Acad: 71.6·Empl: 68.5
306
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Canada
71.2·Acad: 72.9·Empl: 56.0
3114
Stanford University
United States of America
70.9·Acad: 68.1·Empl: 96.5
3213
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)
Singapore
70.6·Acad: 68.3·Empl: 91.0
3317
Yale University
United States of America
70.5·Acad: 68.6·Empl: 87.5
3415
Ecole des Arts Décoratifs - PSL
France
70.2·Acad: 70.7·Empl: 65.8
35—
Harvard University
United States of America
70.0·Acad: 66.7·Empl: 100.0
3614
New York University (NYU)
United States of America
69.9·Acad: 68.8·Empl: 79.7
3714
Haute Ecole dart et de design de Genève (HEAD)
Switzerland
69.1·Acad: 69.8·Empl: 63.2
3813
École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, ENSCI Les Ateliers
France
68.7·Acad: 69.0·Empl: 66.3
395
Seoul National University
Republic of Korea
68.5·Acad: 67.1·Empl: 81.4
4011
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
France
68.2·Acad: 71.9·Empl: 34.5
415
Zurich University of the Arts
Switzerland
68.1·Acad: 71.9·Empl: 33.8
4110
NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Italy
68.1·Acad: 68.6·Empl: 63.4
4311
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
68.0·Acad: 64.9·Empl: 95.8
4319
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States of America
68.0·Acad: 65.9·Empl: 86.5
456
Istituto Marangoni
Italy
67.7·Acad: 67.3·Empl: 71.4
464
Universität der Künste Berlin
Germany
67.6·Acad: 69.3·Empl: 52.2
474
California College of the Arts
United States of America
67.0·Acad: 69.3·Empl: 45.9
484
Hongik University
Republic of Korea
66.9·Acad: 68.4·Empl: 53.4
489
Loughborough University
United Kingdom
66.9·Acad: 66.7·Empl: 69.1
5010
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Mexico
66.5·Acad: 64.7·Empl: 82.7
515
Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands
66.3·Acad: 66.7·Empl: 62.3
521
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)
Netherlands
66.1·Acad: 71.6·Empl: 16.9
532
National College of Art and Design
Ireland
65.9·Acad: 66.4·Empl: 61.0
5411
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Mexico
65.7·Acad: 63.9·Empl: 81.6
5526
Peking University
China (Mainland)
65.6·Acad: 63.0·Empl: 89.4
565
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China
65.1·Acad: 63.2·Empl: 82.4
576
Maryland Institute College of Art
United States of America
65.0·Acad: 67.1·Empl: 45.9
5814
UCL
United Kingdom
64.9·Acad: 62.9·Empl: 83.0
598
Umea University
Sweden
64.6·Acad: 66.0·Empl: 51.6
609
The University of Melbourne
Australia
64.2·Acad: 62.3·Empl: 80.8
6110
Taylor's University
Malaysia
64.1·Acad: 64.3·Empl: 62.0
62139
Domus Academy
Italy
63.8·Acad: 66.3·Empl: 40.9
6211
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
63.8·Acad: 61.4·Empl: 85.8
6413
Krirk University
Thailand
63.7·Acad: 64.1·Empl: 60.4
6413
Yonsei University
Republic of Korea
63.7·Acad: 62.6·Empl: 73.6
6615
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Austria
63.5·Acad: 65.8·Empl: 42.8
6716
Illinois Institute of Technology
United States of America
63.4·Acad: 64.4·Empl: 54.3
6734
LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore
Singapore
63.4·Acad: 65.0·Empl: 48.5
6918
Politecnico di Torino
Italy
63.3·Acad: 62.3·Empl: 72.3
6932
OCAD University
Canada
63.3·Acad: 64.0·Empl: 57.2
6932
Van Lang University
Viet Nam
63.3·Acad: 64.1·Empl: 56.4
7242
The University of Tokyo
Japan
63.0·Acad: 60.6·Empl: 84.8
7325
Columbia University
United States of America
62.9·Acad: 61.0·Empl: 79.7
7423
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Argentina
62.7·Acad: 60.4·Empl: 83.0
7423
Universidad de Palermo (UP)
Argentina
62.7·Acad: 62.7·Empl: 63.0
7625
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)
Chile
62.4·Acad: 60.1·Empl: 83.1
7625
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Prague
Czechia
62.4·Acad: 62.2·Empl: 64.3
7873
IED - Istituto Europeo di Design
Italy
62.3·Acad: 62.4·Empl: 61.5
7928
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States of America
62.2·Acad: 60.5·Empl: 77.6
7928
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States of America
62.2·Acad: 59.0·Empl: 90.5
8130
National Institute of Design, India
India
62.1·Acad: 63.5·Empl: 49.0
8231
Universidad de los Andes
Colombia
62.0·Acad: 60.3·Empl: 76.9
8332
University of Chicago
United States of America
61.9·Acad: 60.4·Empl: 75.2
8332
Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm
Sweden
61.9·Acad: 63.8·Empl: 44.4
8534
University of Technology Sydney
Australia
61.8·Acad: 61.1·Empl: 68.5
8635
Cranbrook Academy of Art
United States of America
61.7·Acad: 64.8·Empl: 33.8
8714
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Germany
61.4·Acad: 62.7·Empl: 49.5
8736
Monash University
Australia
61.4·Acad: 60.0·Empl: 74.0
8938
Manchester Metropolitan University
United Kingdom
61.2·Acad: 62.2·Empl: 51.9
8938
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
61.2·Acad: 59.6·Empl: 75.9
91—
KFUPM
Saudi Arabia
61.1·Acad: 60.3·Empl: 68.0
9259
Estonian Academy of Arts
Estonia
60.8·Acad: 63.6·Empl: 35.2
9342
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
Australia
60.6·Acad: 58.9·Empl: 75.6
94107
China Academy of Art
China (Mainland)
60.4·Acad: 62.8·Empl: 38.4
95106
National Dong Hwa University
Taiwan
60.3·Acad: 61.1·Empl: 52.6
9645
Universidade de São Paulo
Brazil
60.2·Acad: 58.8·Empl: 73.2
96—
Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre
Belgium
60.2·Acad: 61.3·Empl: 50.3
9847
Chiba University
Japan
60.1·Acad: 61.6·Empl: 46.4
9949
Cornell University
United States of America
60.0·Acad: 57.8·Empl: 79.5
9948
Zhejiang University
China (Mainland)
60.0·Acad: 58.0·Empl: 78.3
20261
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