In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Modern Languages 2016, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.

 

2016	2015	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Score
1	1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	100.0	100.0	100.0
2	2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	99.7	99.3	99.6
3	3	Harvard University	United States	99.9	95.5	98.6
4	4	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	95.7	83.6	92.1
5	8	Stanford University	United States	92.3	86.4	90.5
6	7	Yale University	United States	93.0	84.2	90.4
7	6	The University of Tokyo	Japan	91.6	84.4	89.4
8	5	Peking University	China	91.1	84.9	89.2
9	10	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	91.6	78.4	87.6
10	13	Princeton University	United States	90.6	79.8	87.4
11	9	Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)	France	90.2	80.4	87.3
12	17=	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	89.3	81.7	87.0
13	11	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	87.5	85.5	86.9
14	12	Columbia University	United States	90.3	77.9	86.6
15	15	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	86.3	85.6	86.1
16	16	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	87.1	82.5	85.7
17	26	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	87.8	79.0	85.2
18	14	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	88.5	76.9	85.0
19=	19	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	83.6	86.5	84.5
19=	21	University of Toronto	Canada	87.9	76.4	84.5
21	22=	University of Chicago	United States	88.3	75.2	84.4
22	22=	New York University (NYU)	United States	85.6	80.3	84.0
23	17=	Kyoto University	Japan	87.7	74.4	83.7
24=	32	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	88.9	69.8	83.2
24=	25	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	83.3	82.8	83.2
26	24	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	84.7	78.0	82.7
27	30=	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	85.0	76.3	82.4
28	20	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea	82.4	81.9	82.3
29	34	McGill University	Canada	84.4	76.6	82.1
30=	33	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	81.1	83.8	81.9
30=	35	Tsinghua University	China	82.0	81.5	81.9
32	37=	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina	82.6	79.9	81.8
33	27=	Korea University	South Korea	84.3	75.5	81.7
34	40	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	80.9	83.0	81.5
35	27=	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	85.8	70.1	81.1
36	37=	Cornell University	United States	83.7	73.7	80.7
37=	36	Fudan University	China	81.6	77.7	80.4
37=	44	The University of Melbourne	Australia	81.7	77.5	80.4
39=	39	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	83.2	73.6	80.3
39=	49=	Trinity College Dublin (TCD)	Ireland	80.9	78.8	80.3
39=	43	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	83.9	71.9	80.3
42=	30=	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	82.9	73.9	80.2
42=	45	The University of Sydney	Australia	81.3	77.7	80.2
44	27=	Yonsei University	South Korea	81.2	77.0	79.9
45	51-100	Leiden University	Netherlands	83.1	72.1	79.8
46=	46=	Hankuk University of Foreign Studies	South Korea	80.1	77.5	79.3
46=	49=	Waseda University	Japan	83.7	69.1	79.3
48	49=	Brown University	United States	81.4	73.9	79.2
49=	51-100	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	86.0	62.7	79.0
49=	49=	University of British Columbia	Canada	82.9	69.8	79.0