Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments 2021

Academic Ranking of World Universities · Methodology

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🇦🇺 Australia

🇦🇹 Austria

🇧🇪 Belgium

🇧🇷 Brazil

🇨🇦 Canada

🇨🇱 Chile

🇨🇳 China

🇭🇷 Croatia

🇨🇿 Czech Republic

🇩🇰 Denmark

🇪🇪 Estonia

🇫🇮 Finland

🇫🇷 France

🇩🇪 Germany

🇬🇷 Greece

🇭🇰 Hong Kong

🇭🇺 Hungary

🇮🇷 Iran

🇮🇪 Ireland

🇮🇹 Italy

🇯🇵 Japan

🇱🇹 Lithuania

🇲🇾 Malaysia

🇳🇱 Netherlands

🇳🇿 New Zealand

🇳🇴 Norway

🇵🇱 Poland

🇵🇹 Portugal

🇶🇦 Qatar

🇷🇸 Serbia

🇸🇬 Singapore

🇸🇮 Slovenia

🇿🇦 South Africa

🇪🇸 Spain

🇸🇪 Sweden

🇨🇭 Switzerland

🇹🇼 Taiwan

🇹🇳 Tunisia

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🇺🇸 United States

Total 300 universities

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	University	Country
1	Deakin University	🇦🇺 Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	54.5	95.4	92.3
2	Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH)	🇳🇴 Norway	91.7	80.2	100.0	73.5	72.9	87.7
3	University of Copenhagen (UCPH)	🇩🇰 Denmark	90.9	71.2	78.0	70.7	91.6	100.0
4	University of Verona	🇮🇹 Italy	86.1	71.5	71.8	62.1	100.0	85.1
5	Loughborough University	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	76.1	55.6	59.6	57.3	93.6	79.9
6	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)	🇳🇱 Netherlands	72.0	48.8	50.9	63.9	96.3	74.1
7	The University of Queensland (UQ)	🇦🇺 Australia	69.7	50.9	73.7	61.4	69.3	63.9
8	University of Jyväskylä	🇫🇮 Finland	68.0	46.5	67.0	68.7	69.7	64.5
9	Victoria University (VU)	🇦🇺 Australia	67.8	48.8	62.6	60.5	78.3	62.7
10	University of Calgary (UoC)	🇨🇦 Canada	67.5	51.5	79.9	61.0	64.7	52.8
11	University of Southern Denmark (SDU)	🇩🇰 Denmark	65.7	45.4	70.5	78.5	64.6	53.6
12	Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	59.6	38.2	63.8	78.7	60.0	46.7
13	University of British Columbia (UBC)	🇨🇦 Canada	58.2	38.3	54.2	53.6	70.9	52.5
14	Curtin University	🇦🇺 Australia	57.9	39.8	70.1	51.7	57.0	46.2
15	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	🇳🇴 Norway	57.3	36.7	92.5	55.2	39.8	36.5
16	German Sport University Cologne (DSHS)	🇩🇪 Germany	57.1	37.7	46.5	55.6	81.4	47.4
16	University of Birmingham	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	57.1	35.8	66.4	67.5	54.1	46.0
18	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	🇦🇺 Australia	54.6	38.6	100.0	53.7	30.5	25.3
19	Ghent University	🇧🇪 Belgium	53.7	30.3	78.2	75.4	39.0	35.3
20	University of South Carolina-Columbia	🇺🇸 United States	52.8	34.8	78.9	31.7	44.3	40.7
21	La Trobe University	🇦🇺 Australia	52.4	29.5	50.5	53.6	58.6	51.6
22	York University (Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance)	🇨🇦 Canada	52.1	35.4	89.9	38.6	39.5	27.8
23	Universidad de Granada (UGR)	🇪🇸 Spain	51.9	29.2	51.6	70.4	56.8	43.4
24	University of Alberta	🇨🇦 Canada	51.4	35.4	79.4	45.3	44.8	28.7
25	Universidade de São Paulo (USP)	🇧🇷 Brazil	51.3	36.1	62.1	51.3	58.4	31.6
25	University of Florida (UF)	🇺🇸 United States	51.3	33.3	91.9	32.8	36.4	29.2
27	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)	🇺🇸 United States	51.2	33.1	59.3	34.9	56.1	45.1
28	Universidad de Extremadura	🇪🇸 Spain	49.4	41.1	100.0	58.8	21.3	9.3
29	The University of Western Australia (UWA)	🇦🇺 Australia	48.6	25.7	83.4	57.7	31.0	28.3
30	University of Waterloo (UW)	🇨🇦 Canada	47.7	34.1	83.5	34.1	41.0	19.3
31	Technical University of Munich (TUM)	🇩🇪 Germany	47.5	25.1	45.4	53.5	55.6	44.6
32	Queen’s University	🇨🇦 Canada	47.4	26.9	95.3	42.3	28.3	19.0
33	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)	🇺🇸 United States	46.8	30.3	70.7	32.3	43.0	31.0
34	University College Dublin (UCD)	🇮🇪 Ireland	46.0	22.3	60.7	63.0	36.9	36.8
35	University of South Australia	🇦🇺 Australia	45.8	24.2	76.1	52.3	32.0	27.7
36	Australian Catholic University (ACU)	🇦🇺 Australia	45.7	19.0	100.0	57.9	18.6	16.1
37	KU Leuven (KUL)	🇧🇪 Belgium	44.3	21.0	74.5	77.6	28.3	18.9
38	University of Newcastle Australia (UoN)	🇦🇺 Australia	44.1	23.9	69.1	43.4	34.8	29.7
39	The University of Melbourne	🇦🇺 Australia	43.9	15.0	99.1	60.8	15.2	15.1
40	Edith Cowan University (ECU)	🇦🇺 Australia	43.5	19.7	73.6	80.8	26.9	17.9
41	University of Cape Town (UCT)	🇿🇦 South Africa	43.1	18.1	67.8	80.8	26.9	23.5
42	McMaster University	🇨🇦 Canada	42.6	22.9	79.0	37.3	29.1	22.3
43	Northeastern University (NEU)	🇺🇸 United States	41.7	16.1	100.0	53.3	12.6	10.0
43	Universidade do Porto	🇵🇹 Portugal	41.7	18.8	40.0	80.9	47.1	29.2
45	University of Michigan (UM)	🇺🇸 United States	41.2	24.1	68.2	24.6	35.4	26.8
45	University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)	🇺🇸 United States	41.2	19.5	96.6	28.0	20.3	12.8
47	Simon Fraser University (SFU)	🇨🇦 Canada	40.9	17.6	68.7	60.5	25.7	24.1
48	University of Limerick (UL)	🇮🇪 Ireland	39.6	16.5	58.8	67.9	28.2	24.9
49	Auckland University of Technology (AUT)	🇳🇿 New Zealand	39.5	16.4	52.7	85.7	31.2	21.1
50	Maastricht University (UM)	🇳🇱 Netherlands	39.4	9.7	100.0	56.5	8.9	8.3