Table 1.
QS partial World University Rankings by design subject (2015–2022).
Country & Region | University | Ranking |
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2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | ||
United Kingdom | Royal College of Art | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
University of the Arts London | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
The Glasgow School of Art | 10 | 20 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 8 | = 8 | 11 | |
Goldsmiths, University of London | 12 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 14 | = 15 | 18 | |
Loughborough University | 40 | 38 | 36 | 34 | 28 | 24 | 31 | 27 | |
University of Oxford | 13 | 15 | 11 | = 36 | 37 | 30 | 36 | 35 | |
Italy | Politecnico di Milano | 11 | 10 | = 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
Finland | Aalto University | 14 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
Netherlands | Design Academy Eindhoven | 19 | 18 | = 31 | = 24 | 19 | 18 | 12 | = 9 |
Delft University of Technology | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11 | 13 | |
Denmark | The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts | – | 77 | 74 | 27 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 19 |
Sweden | Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts, and Design | 64 | = 41 | 47 | 60 | = 49 | 33 | 21 | = 20 |
Switzerland | Zurich University of the Arts | – | – | – | 200 | 100 | 45 | 35 | 32 |
Germany | Universität der Künste Berlin | 86 | 88 | 132 | 88 | = 49 | 40 | = 41 | = 33 |
France | École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle, ENSCI Les Ateliers | = 32 | 59 | 107 | = 49 | = 24 | 22 | 26 | = 33 |
United States | Parsons School of Design at The New School | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | = 3 | 3 |
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | = 3 | 4 | |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | |
Pratt Institute | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 10 | = 8 | 7 | |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago | 6 | 7 | = 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 7 | = 9 | |
California Institute of the Arts | 7 | = 12 | 9 | 15 | 21 | 20 | 17 | = 22 | |
Stanford University | 17 | = 8 | 10 | 10 | = 14 | 16 | 19 | 29 | |
Yale University | 15 | = 8 | 12 | 29 | 29 | = 34 | 37 | 40 | |
Carnegie Mellon University | 16 | = 13 | 14 | 13 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 17 | |
Art Center College of Design | 9 | = 19 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 14 | |
University of California, Los Angeles | 18 | = 13 | 18 | 20 | = 31 | 39 | 46 | 46 | |
Columbia University | 21 | = 24 | 20 | 30 | 33 | = 34 | 41 | 42 | |
Australia | RMIT University | 20 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 12 | 11 | = 15 | 15 |
The University of Technology Sydney | 96 | 31 | = 29 | 28 | 23 | 23 | 25 | = 27 | |
Monash University | 50 | 67 | 34 | 64 | = 49 | 67 | 72 | 74 | |
Queensland University of Technology | – | 72 | 41 | = 43 | 41 | 77 | 48 | 83 | |
Swinburne University of Technology | 73 | 32 | 72 | = 40 | 42 | 43 | 83 | 86 | |
The University of New South Wales | 25 | 29 | 33 | = 31 | 44 | 48 | 85 | 90 | |
The University of Melbourne | 49 | 37 | 28 | 38 | 34 | 49 | 84 | 89 | |
Singapore | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 38 | 27 | 35 | 39 | = 31 | 30 | 28 | 31 |
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | = 45 | 48 | 40 | = 40 | 39 | 37 | 43 | 36 | |
China (Mainland) | Tongji University | – | = 34 | 26 | = 18 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 |
Tsinghua University | 26 | 23 | 25 | 23 | 18 | 19 | 23 | = 20 | |
China Central Academy of Fine Arts | – | 55 | 53 | 54 | 27 | 28 | 24 | = 22 | |
Peking University | 68 | 30 | 37 | 47 | 74 | 74 | 76 | 80 | |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 28 | = 46 | 70 | 73 | 78 | 79 | 127 | 85 | |
Zhejiang University | – | – | 100 | 100 | 99 | = 100 | 150 | 151 |