Chung-Ang University (CAU) ranked 3rd in the category of Social Sciences and 5th in Education among Korean universities in the 2020 Times Higher Education (THE) University Rankings.

CAU became one of the top three best universities providing Social Sciences courses in Korea along with Seoul National University and Kyung Hee University while ranking 4th in the category of Education, following Korea University, Seoul National University and Yonsei University. It is the first time for CAU to rank in the category of Education.

Universities are evaluated according to the following five metrics: teaching (Social Science: 32.4%, Education: 32.7%), research (32.6%, 29.8%), citations (25%, 27.5%), international outlook (7.5%, 7.5%) and industry income (2.5%, 2.5%).