表演艺术的直观性决定了它和宣传事业的关系最直接、最密切，宣传效果最快、最易被接受。表演艺术的审美特征还表现为表演者的表演创造过程与观众的欣赏过程同时进行。出国留学网准备了2019QS世界大学表演艺术专业排名TOP50。
| 2019QS世界大学表演艺术专业排名 | |
| 排名 | 大学名称 |
| 1 | The Juilliard School |
| 2 | Royal College of Music |
| 3 | Royal Academy of Music |
| 4 | University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna |
| 5 | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Formerly Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) |
| 6 | Sibelius Academy |
| 7 | Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) |
| 8 | Curtis Institute of Music |
| 9 | New York University (NYU) |
| 10 | Harvard University |
| 11 | Royal College of Music in Stockholm |
| 12 | Northwestern University |
| 13 | University of Oxford |
| 14 | Royal Holloway University of London |
| 14 | University of Cambridge |
| 16 | Indiana University Bloomington |
| 17 | Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta |
| 18 | Yale University |
| 19 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 20 | Stanford University |
| 21 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 22 | Monash University |
| 23 | Queen Mary University of London |
| 24 | The University of Melbourne |
| 25 | Columbia University |
| 26 | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| 27 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 27 | The University of Tokyo |
| 29 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 30 | Conservatorio Santa Cecilia |
| 30 | Princeton University |
| 32 | Central School of Speech & Drama |
| 33 | University of Rochester |
| 34 | The Australian National University |
| 35 | Norwegian Academy of Music |
| 36 | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| 37 | Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus |
| 37 | University of Chicago |
| 39 | City University of New York |
| 40 | King's College London |
| 40 | The Royal Danish Academy of Music |
| 42 | Griffith University |
| 42 | University of British Columbia |
| 44 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 45 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 46 | The University of Manchester |
| 47 | University of Toronto |
| 48 | Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon |
| 49 | University of Amsterdam |
| 50 | Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg |
| 50 | The University of Western Australia |
