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World's Best Universities
Modern Languages

Modern language students earn degrees in languages such as French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Graduates can pursue careers in translating and interpreting, as well as in international sales, tourism, and many other fields. These are the world's top universities for modern languages. See the methodology.

Rank	School	Overall Score	Academic Reputation Score	Employer Reputation Score	Citations per Paper Score
#26	University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	80.3	81.9	76.4	N/A
#27	University of Sydney Australia	80.2	80.3	80.1	N/A
#28	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) United States	80.1	80.7	78.8	N/A
#29	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany	80.0	82.5	74.1	N/A
#29	Korea University South Korea	80.0	78.7	83.0	N/A
#29	National Chengchi University Taiwan	80.0	87.4	62.6	N/A
#32	Università di Bologna (UNIBO) Italy	78.9	79.9	76.4	N/A
#33	Duke University United States	78.8	79.4	77.3	N/A
#34	Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies Korea, South	78.7	69.5	100.0	N/A
#35	Indiana University Bloomington United States	78.4	83.8	65.8	N/A
#35	Waseda University Japan	78.4	77.4	80.6	N/A
#37	Kyoto University Japan	77.8	76.4	81.1	N/A
#38	Tokyo University of Science (TUS) Japan	77.7	70.6	94.3	N/A
#39	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) United States	77.6	80.9	70.0	N/A
#40	Fudan University China	77.4	72.6	88.7	N/A
#41	Beijing Foreign Studies University China	77.2	80.7	69.1	N/A
#42	Brown University United States	77.1	79.2	72.3	N/A
#42	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Hong Kong	77.1	80.5	69.0	N/A
#44	Cornell University United States	77.0	76.5	78.1	N/A
#45	Tsinghua University China	76.9	73.4	85.1	N/A
#46	UCL (University College London) United Kingdom	76.6	73.4	84.2	N/A
#47	University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) United States	76.5	78.4	72.2	N/A
#48	Georgetown University United States	76.1	77.8	72.1	N/A
#48	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico	76.1	79.9	67.2	N/A
#50	Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina	75.9	75.1	77.6	N/A

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