| 排名 | 學校名稱 | 學校英文名稱 | 項目英文名 |
| 1 | 普林斯頓大學 | Princeton University | Comparative Literature |
| 2 | 耶魯大學 | Yale University | Comparative Literature |
| 3 | 斯坦福大學 | Stanford University | Comparative Literature |
| 4 | 加州大學伯克利分校 | University of California at Berkeley | Comparative Literature |
| 5 | 賓夕法尼亞大學 | University of Pennsylvania | Comparative Literature and Literary Theory |
| 6 | 杜克大學 | Duke University | Literature |
| 7 | 布朗大學 | Brown University | Comparative Literature |
| 8 | 普渡大學 | Purdue University Main Campus | Comparative Literature |
| 9 | 紐約大學 | New York University | Comparative Literature |
| 10 | 芝加哥大學 | University of Chicago | Comparative Literature |
| 11 | 哈佛大學 | Harvard University | Comparative Literature |
| 12 | 馬里蘭大學學院公園分校 | University of Maryland at College Park | Comparative Literature |
| 13 | 艾茉莉大學 | Emory University | Comparative Literature |
| 14 | 賓州州立大學公園分校 | Pennsylvania State University | Comparative Literature |
| 15 | 約翰霍普金斯大學 | Johns Hopkins University | Humanities |
| 16 | 密歇根大學安娜堡分校 | University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | Comparative Literature |
| 17 | 紐約州立大學水牛城分校 | University at Buffalo (SUNY) | Comparative Literature |
| 18 | 南卡羅來納大學 | University of South Carolina at Columbia | Comparative Literature |
| 19 | 紐約市立大學研究生中心 | City University of New York Graduate Center | Comparative Literature |
| 20 | 西北大學 | Northwestern University | Comparative Literary Studies |
| 21 | 印第安納大學伯明頓分校 | Indiana University at Bloomington | Comparative Literature |
| 22 | 紐約州立大學賓漢姆頓分校 | Binghamtonton University (SUNY) | Comparative Literature |
| 23 | 加州大學戴維斯分校 | University of California at Davis | Comparative Literature |
| 24 | 羅格斯大學 | Rutgers University at New Brunswick | Comparative Literature |
| 25 | 北卡羅來納大學教堂山分校 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Comparative Literature |
| 26 | 康奈爾大學 | Cornell University | Comparative Literature |
| 27 | 加州大學圣克魯茲分校 | University of California at Santa Cruz | Literature |
| 28 | 紐約州立大學石溪分校 | State University of New York at Stony Brook | Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies |
| 29 | 加州大學洛杉磯分校 | University of California at Los Angeles | Comparative Literature |
| 30 | 俄勒岡大學 | University of Oregon | Comparative Literature |
| 31 | 馬薩諸塞大學阿默斯特分校 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst | Comparative Literature |
| 32 | 路易斯安那州立大學 | Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge | Comparative Literature |
| 33 | 佐治亞大學 | University of Georgia | Comparative Literature |
| 34 | 加州大學圣塔芭芭拉分校 | University of California at Santa Barbara | Comparative Literature |
| 35 | 伊利諾伊大學厄本那-香檳分校 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Comparative Literature |
| 36 | 圣路易斯華盛頓大學 | Washington University in St. Louis | Comparative Literature |
| 37 | 德克薩斯大學奧斯汀分校 | University of Texas at Austin | Comparative Literature |
| 38 | 明尼蘇達大學雙城分校 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society |
| 39 | 南加州大學 | University of Southern California | Comparative Literature |
| 40 | 加州大學爾灣分校 | University of California at Irvine | Comparative Literature |
| 41 | 愛荷華大學 | University of Iowa | Comparative Literature |
| 42 | 威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校 | University of Wisconsin at Madison | Comparative Literature |
| 43 | 科羅拉多大學博爾德分校 | University of Colorado at Boulder | Comparative Literature |
| 44 | 加州大學圣地亞哥分校 | University of California at San Diego | Literature |
| 45 | 華盛頓大學 | University of Washington | Comparative Literature |
| 46 | 加州大學河濱分校 | University of California at Riverside | Comparative Literature |
*(1)
排名評分權重
| 聲譽 | 論文 | 資金 | 多樣性 | 課程 | |||||
| 40% | 30% | 10% | 5% | 15% | |||||
| S-Rank High | S-Rank Low | Research High | Research Low | Students High | Students Low | Diversity High | Diversity Low | R-Rank High | R-Rank Low |
注：(1)此表的排名是根據NRC排名表提供的數據結合以上評分權重計算得出的
(2) NRC排名是由美國國家研究委員會（National Research Council）發布的排名，專注于PhD項目，每十年發布一次。第一次是在1995年，第二次本應在2005-2006年發布的，但推遲至了2010年，迄今只有兩個排名版本
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參考資料：
(1) https://www.chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124718/