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Explore TOP-100 best PR and media universities in the world for international students. Communications programs cover a wide range of subjects and topics, often more theoretical than similar media production programs. In many media and communication programs, theoretical and practical work takes on equal parts: modules include linguistics, photo editing, television and radio production, sound processing, and cultural studies. Students choose to specialize in the second or third year.
By studying a degree in Media, PR at the world's elite universities, students will gain an in-depth understanding of how twenty-first-century media work, developing key critical, analytical, informational, communication and creative skills.
Graduates of top universities with the study of media and PR make careers in television, radio, cinema, copywriting, marketing, journalism, search engine optimization, research. The broad nature of education for working in media and PR means that virtually all sectors of the media and creative industries are possible pathways to employment.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Communication and Media Studies
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Amsterdam | 96.8 |
| 2 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 91.1 |
| 3 | Harvard University | 89 |
| 4 | University of Texas at Austin | 88.4 |
| 5 | Stanford University | 88.1 |
| 6 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | 87.5 |
| 7 | University of Pennsylvania | 86.5 |
| 8 | University of Southern California | 86.4 |
| 9 | Columbia University | 85.7 |
| =10 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 85.1 |
| =10 | New York University (NYU) | 85.1 |
| 12 | University of Cambridge | 84.9 |
| 13 | University of Vienna | 84.7 |
| 14 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 84.1 |
| 15 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 83.7 |
| 16 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 83.2 |
| 17 | Cornell University | 83.1 |
| 18 | Goldsmiths, University of London | 82.8 |
| =19 | King's College London | 82.7 |
| =19 | Queensland University of Technology (QUT) | 82.7 |
| 21 | University of Toronto | 82.6 |
| 22 | The University of Melbourne | 82.5 |
| 23 | Michigan State University | 82.2 |
| 24 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 82.1 |
| 25 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 81.7 |
| 26 | Northwestern University | 81.5 |
| 27 | University of Zurich | 81.4 |
| 28 | The University of Sydney | 81.3 |
| 29 | Pennsylvania State University | 81.1 |
| =30 | Freie Universitaet Berlin | 80.9 |
| =30 | Yale University | 80.9 |
| =32 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 80.8 |
| =32 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 80.8 |
| 34 | University of Leeds | 80.6 |
| 35 | UCL | 80.4 |
| 36 | The University of Edinburgh | 79.9 |
| 37 | Cardiff University | 79.8 |
| =38 | Seoul National University | 79.2 |
| =38 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 79.2 |
| 40 | Monash University | 79 |
| 41 | The Ohio State University | 78.9 |
| 42 | University of British Columbia | 78.4 |
| 43 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | 78.3 |
| 44 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 78.1 |
| 45 | Complutense University of Madrid | 78 |
| 46 | Yonsei University | 77.8 |
| 47 | Peking University | 77.7 |
| 48 | Hong Kong Baptist University | 77.5 |
| =49 | City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) | 77.4 |
| =49 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | 77.4 |
| 51-100 | Aarhus University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | n/a |
| 51-100 | Arizona State University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Australian National University (ANU) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Boston University | n/a |
| 51-100 | City St George’s, University of London | n/a |
| 51-100 | Duke University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | n/a |
| 51-100 | Fudan University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Indiana University Bloomington | n/a |
| 51-100 | KU Leuven | n/a |
| 51-100 | Korea University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Leiden University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Loughborough University | n/a |
| 51-100 | McGill University | n/a |
| 51-100 | RMIT University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Rutgers University–New Brunswick | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Georgia | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Hong Kong | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Manchester | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Queensland | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Sheffield | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Tokyo | n/a |
| 51-100 | The University of Warwick | n/a |
| 51-100 | Tsinghua University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) | n/a |
| 51-100 | University College Dublin | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Birmingham | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Chicago | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Copenhagen | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Florida | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Glasgow | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Groningen | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Helsinki | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Minnesota (System) | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Missouri, Columbia | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Münster | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Navarra | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Oslo | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Sussex | n/a |
| 51-100 | University of Washington | n/a |
| 51-100 | Universität Hamburg | n/a |
| 51-100 | Utrecht University | n/a |
| 51-100 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | n/a |
| 51-100 | Zhejiang University | n/a |
