2018年QS世界大学排名已正式发布，QS世界大学排名被视为目前世界最具影响力的排名之一，本次排名涵盖46个不同学术领域的11000余个位次，是目前为止最大规模也是最复杂的大学排名。其专业排名自2011年以来每年发布，排名主要依据学术声誉、雇主声誉和科研影响力三方面。不同学科排名方法不同，反映出不同的关注重点和数据可用性。
| 2018年QS世界大学排名——哲学（Philosophy） | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | University of Pittsburgh |
| 2 | New York University (NYU) |
| 3 | Rutgers University – New Brunswick |
| 4 | University of Oxford |
| 5 | Harvard University |
| 6 | University of Cambridge |
| 7 | Princeton University |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 9 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 10 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 11 | Stanford University |
| 12 | Yale University |
| 13 | University of Toronto |
| 14 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 15 | University of Notre Dame |
| 16 | King’s College London |
| 16 | University of St Andrews |
| 18 | Columbia University |
| 19 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 20 | The Australian National University |
| 21 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 22 | University of Chicago |
| 23 | University of Michigan |
| 24 | University of Helsinki |
| 25 | University of Copenhagen |
| 26 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| 27 | Ecole normale supérieure, Paris |
| 28 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 29 | City University of New York |
| 30 | Universität Frankfurt am Main |
| 31 | KU Leuven |
| 32 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) |
| 33 | University of Amsterdam |
| 34 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 35 | University of Bristol |
| 36 | The University of Auckland |
| 37 | Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) |
| 38 | University of Geneva |
| 39 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 40 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) |
| 41 | Peking University |
| 42 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg |
| 43 | Renmin (People’s) University of China |
| 43 | University of Oslo |
| 45 | McGill University |
| 46 | Boston University |
| 46 | Universitat de Barcelona |
| 48 | Seoul National University |
| 49 | The University of Sydney |
| 50 | University of Navarra |
| 50 | Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg |
