Top Universities for Arts and Humanities 2014

Last year’s rank: 5^th

Location: Berkeley, California, US

Type: Public research

Fact: The highest-ranked public university in the US, the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) boasts a combined campus area of 1,232 acres in the city of Berkeley, on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay.

Last year’s rank: 6^th

Location: Stanford, California, US

Type: Private research

Fact: Situated in the northern part of “Silicon Valley”, Stanford University sits upon a huge 8,180 acre campus.

Last year’s rank: 10^th

Location: Lower Manhattan, New York, US

Type: Private research (nonsectarian)

Fact: Situated in the heart of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, where the likes of Mark Twain, Allen Ginsburg and Bob Dylan could once be found, New York University (NYU) is often seen as a cultural hub of creativity and talent.

Last year’s rank: 7^th

Location: Princeton, New Jersey, US

Type: Private research (Ivy League)

Fact: Princeton University has a relatively small yearly intake, and offers programs in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering only. Professional degrees can also be taken with affiliated schools and institutes.

Last year’s rank: 4^th

Location: New Haven, Connecticut, US

Type: Private research (Ivy League)

Fact: Another Ivy League member, Yale University is the third-oldest university in the US and its notable alumni include five former US presidents.

Location: Los Angeles, California, US

Type: Public research

Fact: The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) not only has the largest student enrolment in the entire state of California, it is also the most applied-to university in the world, with over 105,000 applications for 2014.

Last year’s rank: 16^th

Location: Canberra, Australia

Type: Public

Fact: Australian National University (ANU) is located in a suburb called Acton, just outside of the Australian capital Canberra, and is home to seven colleges and various national institutes.

Last year’s rank: 12^th

Location: Chicago, Illinois, US

Type: Private research

Fact: The highest-ranked university in the state of Illinois, the University of Chicago is also home to the largest university press in the whole of the US.

About the QS World University Rankings by Faculty

The QS World University Rankings by Faculty aims to highlight the world’s leading universities within five major subject areas. These five fields cover arts & humanities, engineering & technology, life sciences & medicine, natural sciences, and social sciences & management. These rankings are compiled using data on research citations, as well as data collected from the results of QS’s global surveys of academics and employers.