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——传媒与媒体研究专业 | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | University of Amsterdam |
| 2 | University of Southern California |
| 3 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 4 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 5 | Stanford University |
| 6 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 7 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 8 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 9 | Goldsmiths University of London |
| 10 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 11 | Columbia University |
| 12 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) |
| 13 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 14 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 15 | New York University (NYU) |
| 16 | Michigan State University |
| 17 | Northwestern University |
| 18 | Yale University |
| 19 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 20 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 21 | The Ohio State University |
| 22 | Cornell University |
| 23 | Cardiff University |
| 24 | King’s College London |
| 24 | University of Michigan |
| 26 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 27 | City University of Hong Kong |
| 28 | The University of Melbourne |
| 29 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 30 | University of Zurich |
| 31 | Queensland University of Technology |
| 32 | Seoul National University |
| 32 | The University of Queensland |
| 32 | The University of Sydney |
| 35 | Aarhus University |
| 35 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| 35 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 38 | University of Washington |
| 39 | University of Leeds |
| 40 | University of Westminster |
| 41 | Loughborough University |
| 41 | University of Chicago |
| 43 | University of Helsinki |
| 44 | University of Vienna |
| 45 | The University of Tokyo |
| 46 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) |
| 46 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) |
| 48 | University of Missouri, Columbia |
| 49 | University of Navarra |
| 50 | University of Leicester |
| 50 | University of Oslo |
