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——语言学专业 | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 3 | Harvard University |
| 4 | University of Cambridge |
| 5 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 6 | University of Oxford |
| 7 | Stanford University |
| 8 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 9 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 10 | Peking University |
| 10 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 12 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 13 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 14 | University of Amsterdam |
| 15 | Lancaster University |
| 16 | UCL (University College London) |
| 17 | The University of Tokyo |
| 18 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 19 | University of Chicago |
| 20 | University of Toronto |
| 21 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 22 | The Ohio State University |
| 23 | Leiden University |
| 24 | The University of Melbourne |
| 24 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 26 | City University of Hong Kong |
| 27 | The Australian National University |
| 28 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 29 | Georgetown University |
| 30 | Seoul National University |
| 31 | University of Vienna |
| 31 | University of British Columbia |
| 33 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 34 | University of Helsinki |
| 35 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 36 | University of Connecticut |
| 37 | University of Birmingham |
| 38 | McGill University |
| 39 | National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| 40 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 40 | The University of Manchester |
| 42 | New York University (NYU) |
| 43 | The University of Sydney |
| 43 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 43 | University of Michigan |
| 46 | Stockholm University |
| 47 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 48 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) |
| 49 | Cornell University |
| 50 | University of Zurich |
