The 2012-2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Arts and Humanities table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 50 universities for arts and humanities employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

Top 50 arts and humanities universities

Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall score
1	Stanford University	United States	91.5
2	Columbia University	United States	90.6
3	University of Chicago	United States	89.9
3	Harvard University	United States	89.9
5	University of Pennsylvania	United States	87.8
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	86.6
7	University of California, Berkeley	United States	85.7
8	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	85.2
9	Princeton University	United States	85.1
10	University College London	United Kingdom	84.9
11	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	84.7
12	New York University	United States	84.3
13	Australian National University	Australia	83.4
14	Duke University	United States	83.3
15	Yale University	United States	82.8
16	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	81.2
17	University of Toronto	Canada	81.1
18	University of Michigan	United States	80.1
19	Cornell University	United States	79.0
20	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States	78.2
21	University of Sydney	Australia	77.2
22	University of Texas at Austin	United States	75.9
23	McGill University	Canada	75.6
23	University of Melbourne	Australia	75.6
25	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	74.5
26	Leiden University	Netherlands	74.2
27	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	73.7
28	King's College London	United Kingdom	72.6
29	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	72.4
30	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	72.3
31	Brown University	United States	72.2
32	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	71.2
33	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	70.5
34	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	69.6
35	University of California, San Diego	United States	69.2
36	Georgetown University	United States	68.3
37	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	68.2
38	Universität Heidelberg	Germany	68.0
39	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	67.5
40	University of British Columbia	Canada	66.8
41	University of Notre Dame	United States	66.7
42	University of Massachusetts	United States	66.1
43	National University of Singapore	Singapore	65.8
43	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	65.8
45	University of Pittsburgh	United States	65.1
46	University of Vienna	Austria	64.8
46	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	64.8
48	Durham University	United Kingdom	64.3
49	University of Virginia	United States	64.1
49	University of Arizona	United States

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