.Stanford University knocks Harvard University off the best spot among the humanities and humanities subject rankings. With Pulitzer prizewinners and MacArthur Fellows leading its liberal-arts programme, the relative newcomer (founded in 1891) has proved quite a match for its illustrious Ivy League rival.
The University of Chicago, with a humanities department that teaches quite fifty languages, takes third position.
While the humanities and humanities table, like all the others, is predominantly Anglo-American, it is the sole subject area where an institution outside the US and additionally the united kingdom makes the best five.
The Australian National University, based totally in Canberra and alma mater of Kevin Rudd, the previous prime minister, is ranked equal fourth alongside Princeton University.
It leads a list of three Australian institutions among the prime twenty, with the faculties of Sydney and Melbourne taking eighteenth and nineteenth place respectively.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (26th) is that the top-ranked institution in continental Europe.
Founded by tutorial reformer Wilhelm von Humboldt, it's taught variety of history's greatest thinkers, like thinker Arthur Schopenhauer, political theorist Karl Marx, master of realpolitik Otto von Bismarck and physicist Albert Einstein.
Freie Universität Berlin (29th), established in 1948 to push intellectual freedom in post-war Europe, additionally performs well among the table and is one of five German institutions featured, the country's best showing in an exceedingly non-public subject table.
The Netherlands has three representatives, along side the University of Amsterdam (30th), Leiden University (35th) and Utrecht University (45th).
Asia has solely a pair of institutions featured (the University of Hong Kong at thirty sixth place and additionally the National University of Singapore at 38th), though that represents an improvement on last year, when not one university from the region created the list
