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——教育学专业 | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | UCL (University College London) |
| 2 | Harvard University |
| 3 | Stanford University |
| 4 | University of Cambridge |
| 5 | University of Oxford |
| 6 | The University of Melbourne |
| 7 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 8 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 9 | The Education University of Hong Kong |
| 10 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 11 | University of Toronto |
| 12 | The University of Sydney |
| 13 | Columbia University |
| 14 | Monash University |
| 15 | The University of Queensland |
| 16 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) |
| 17 | The University of Auckland |
| 18 | University of British Columbia |
| 19 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 20 | University of Michigan |
| 21 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) |
| 22 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 23 | University of Amsterdam |
| 24 | King’s College London |
| 24 | Michigan State University |
| 24 | The University of Nottingham |
| 27 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 28 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 28 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 30 | Deakin University |
| 30 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 32 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 33 | Beijing Normal University |
| 33 | Boston College |
| 35 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) |
| 36 | McGill University |
| 37 | University of Twente |
| 38 | University of Helsinki |
| 39 | University of Birmingham |
| 40 | The Australian National University |
| 41 | Universidad de Chile |
| 41 | University of Alberta |
| 41 | University of Leeds |
| 44 | KU Leuven |
| 44 | Vanderbilt University |
| 46 | New York University (NYU) |
| 46 | The University of Manchester |
| 46 | University of Chicago |
| 49 | Universitat de Barcelona |
| 50 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) |
| 50 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 50 | University of Washington |
