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

 

2016	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Score
1	Juilliard School	United States	100.0	88.2	98.8
2	University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna	Austria	98.8	88.1	97.7
3=	Royal College of Music	United Kingdom	94.7	88.2	94.1
3=	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.4	100.0	94.1
5	Royal Academy of Music	United Kingdom	94.1	78.6	92.6
6	Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Formerly Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama)	United Kingdom	92.3	78.6	90.9
7	Sibelius Academy	Finland	95.9	39.2	90.2
8	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	90.5	86.4	90.1
9	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	United Kingdom	88.9	78.6	87.9
10	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	89.8	57.1	86.5
11	Royal College of Music in Stockholm	Sweden	90.5	39.0	85.4
12	Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP)	France	90.0	39.0	84.9
13	Curtis Institute of Music	United States	84.8	78.6	84.2
14	Royal Holloway University of London	United Kingdom	86.5	36.6	81.5
15	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	79.1	84.8	79.7
16	Hochschule für Musik und Theater München	Germany	84.0	39.0	79.5
17=	Harvard University	United States	74.7	97.8	77.0
17=	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	74.6	98.9	77.0
19	Conservatoire de Musique de Genève	Switzerland	80.8	39.0	76.6
20	Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin	Germany	80.6	39.0	76.4
21	Northwestern University	United States	77.0	65.4	75.8
22	New York University (NYU)	United States	75.2	79.5	75.6
23	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	74.5	84.8	75.5
24	Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln	Germany	79.3	39.0	75.3
25	Yale University	United States	73.9	86.7	75.2
26	McGill University	Canada	74.7	71.4	74.4
27	Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory	Russia	78.3	32.3	73.7
28	University of Rochester	United States	81.6	0.0	73.4
29	University of Michigan	United States	74.1	65.8	73.3
30	The Liszt Academy of Music	Hungary	77.0	39.0	73.2
31	Purchase College SUNY	United States	76.9	39.0	73.1
32	University of British Columbia	Canada	70.5	88.0	72.3
33=	Stanford University	United States	70.2	87.9	72.0
33=	University of Texas at Austin	United States	74.1	53.1	72.0
35	Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)	Switzerland	75.4	39.0	71.8
36	University Mozarteum Salzburg	Austria	72.8	60.0	71.5
37	Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig	Germany	74.6	39.0	71.0
38	City University of New York	United States	73.3	48.3	70.8
39=	Columbia University	United States	70.1	76.3	70.7
39=	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	73.5	45.9	70.7
41	Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles	Belgium	73.8	39.0	70.3
42	Princeton University	United States	69.7	73.5	70.1
43=	Indonesia Institute of the Arts Surakarta	Indonesia	73.3	39.1	69.9
43=	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	70.3	66.5	69.9
45	University of York	United Kingdom	69.7	63.6	69.1
46	Korean National University of Arts	South Korea	71.8	39.0	68.5
47	Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory	Russia	71.6	39.4	68.4
48=	Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance	United Kingdom	71.1	39.0	67.9
48=	University of Chicago	United States	68.4	63.1	67.9
50	Queen's University of Belfast	United Kingdom	68.2	64.1	67.8