MDW Vienna celebrates: 4th place in the world's best university ranking for performing art!

MDW Vienna celebrates: 4th place in the world's best university ranking for performing art!

In the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings 2025, the MDW University of Music and Performing Art Vienna proudly conquered fourth place in the global comparison of the "performing arts". Rector Ulrike Sych described this success as a confirmation of the outstanding quality in art, science, research and administration. "The MDW stands for a democratic, just and cosmopolitan society," she said. This top position among the top 5 best universities is proof of the excellent qualification and reputation of the graduates that the MDW produces, such as ots reports .

The QS ranking has been carried out by the British service provider Quacquarelli Symonds since 2004 and evaluates the performance of universities worldwide. For the current ranking, 1,500 universities were assessed using indicators such as teaching quality, research and international cooperation. New this year are criteria such as the success rate of graduates and sustainability aspects. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with) remains in first place, followed by the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. As the leading university outside of the United States and Great Britain, ETH Zurich occupies seventh place, while the National University of Singapore takes eighth place as the best Asian university. This information comes from Cooperation International .

The German university landscape is also represented in the ranking, with the Technical University of Munich taking the best place among German universities in 37th place, followed by the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Heidelberg. The dominant presence of US and British universities remains strong, but the competitiveness of universities from China grows, which indicates an increasingly globalized education system. The developments in the QS ranking confirm the high standards and the international influence of the MDW in the field of performing art and other academic disciplines.