Performing Arts 2026

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Total 150 universities

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100

	University	Country
1	Juilliard School	🇺🇸 United States	100.0	100.0	100.0
2	Royal College of Music (RCM)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	94.5	97.1	84.3
3	Curtis Institute of Music	🇺🇸 United States	91.2	89.5	97.8
3	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	91.2	91.8	88.8
5	Royal Academy of Music	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	88.2	93.6	66.5
6 =	University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW)	🇦🇹 Austria	87.3	92.3	67.2
6 =	Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP)	🇫🇷 France	87.3	88.6	82.0
8	New York University (NYU)	🇺🇸 United States	83.5	84.1	81.1
9	Royal Conservatoire of Scotland	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	82.3	84.7	72.8
10	Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA)	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	81.2	85.3	64.7
11	Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	79.2	86.9	48.3
12	Shanghai Conservatory of Music	🇨🇳 China	79.0	82.7	64.2
13	Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	78.4	86.7	45.0
14	Moscow State Conservatory P. I. Tchaikovsky	🇷🇺 Russia	78.0	72.7	99.2
15	McGill University	🇨🇦 Canada	77.5	75.5	85.4
16	Royal Danish Academy of Music (DKDM)	🇩🇰 Denmark	77.3	76.0	82.5
17	Mozarteum University of Salzburg	🇦🇹 Austria	77.0	79.5	66.8
18	University of Oxford	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	76.8	73.4	90.6
19	University of Rochester (UR)	🇺🇸 United States	76.4	77.6	71.4
20	Harvard University	🇺🇸 United States	75.9	71.7	92.6
21 =	Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki	🇫🇮 Finland	75.6	80.8	54.8
21 =	Korea National University of Arts (K-ARTS)	🇰🇷 South Korea	75.6	79.8	58.8
23	University of Cambridge	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	75.4	71.7	90.4
24	UCSI University	🇲🇾 Malaysia	74.9	71.7	87.5
25	Indiana University Bloomington (IU)	🇺🇸 United States	74.8	74.4	76.3
26	Northwestern University (NU)	🇺🇸 United States	74.4	73.7	77.4
27	National University of Singapore (NUS)	🇸🇬 Singapore	74.3	70.9	87.8
28	The University of Melbourne	🇦🇺 Australia	73.3	73.4	73.1
29	Yale University	🇺🇸 United States	73.2	73.2	73.2
30 =	University of Southern California (USC)	🇺🇸 United States	72.6	70.1	82.8
30 =	Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH)	🇳🇴 Norway	72.6	76.1	58.5
32	Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music	🇭🇺 Hungary	72.3	71.3	76.2
33	Stanford University (SU)	🇺🇸 United States	72.1	68.4	86.7
34	University of Michigan (UM)	🇺🇸 United States	72.0	71.6	73.8
35 =	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	🇺🇸 United States	71.9	72.3	70.3
35 =	The Gnesins Russian Academy of Music	🇷🇺 Russia	71.9	65.0	99.6
37	Royal Holloway University of London	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	71.7	76.2	53.5
38	Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin	🇩🇪 Germany	71.0	80.8	31.8
39	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	🇺🇸 United States	70.7	70.7	70.5
40	Columbia University (CU)	🇺🇸 United States	70.6	69.7	74.0
41 =	Royal Central School of Speech and Drama	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	70.5	88.1	0.0
41 =	Royal Irish Academy of Music	🇮🇪 Ireland	70.5	71.9	64.7
43 =	Goldsmiths University of London	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	70.3	71.0	67.7
43 =	Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)	🇨🇭 Switzerland	70.3	71.7	64.8
45	University of Toronto	🇨🇦 Canada	69.9	66.4	83.8
46 =	Chopin University of Music	🇵🇱 Poland	68.6	63.8	87.9
46 =	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	68.6	71.5	57.2
48	King's College London (KCL)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	68.5	67.1	74.0
49	St. Petersburg Conservatory	🇷🇺 Russia	67.4	60.0	97.0
50	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	🇸🇬 Singapore	67.3	63.9	80.9