Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments 2023

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

🇮🇱 Israel

🇮🇹 Italy

🇯🇵 Japan

🇱🇹 Lithuania

🇲🇾 Malaysia

🇳🇱 Netherlands

🇳🇿 New Zealand

🇳🇴 Norway

🇵🇱 Poland

🇵🇹 Portugal

🇶🇦 Qatar

🇷🇸 Serbia

🇸🇬 Singapore

🇸🇮 Slovenia

🇿🇦 South Africa

🇰🇷 South Korea

🇪🇸 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	56.1	100.0	100.0
2	University of Copenhagen (UCPH)	🇩🇰 Denmark	76.4	48.3	84.4	69.1	72.9	79.4
3	Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH)	🇳🇴 Norway	73.9	43.8	89.5	69.9	62.4	72.5
4	University of Verona	🇮🇹 Italy	73.5	53.0	67.7	57.4	99.8	78.7
5	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)	🇳🇱 Netherlands	68.6	47.1	62.7	63.6	95.7	71.5
6	University of Southern Denmark (SDU)	🇩🇰 Denmark	66.4	43.0	83.9	71.5	65.4	53.4
7	Victoria University (VU)	🇦🇺 Australia	63.2	38.3	63.6	60.2	76.6	66.6
8	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	🇳🇴 Norway	61.6	41.6	100.0	51.1	47.4	35.7
9	Loughborough University	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	61.1	38.6	59.1	53.1	83.2	64.4
10	Curtin University	🇦🇺 Australia	58.1	35.2	100.0	54.0	38.7	30.9
11	La Trobe University	🇦🇺 Australia	57.0	32.0	54.7	54.9	74.4	62.4
12	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	🇦🇺 Australia	56.1	41.0	100.0	51.8	28.9	24.4
13	Universidad de Extremadura	🇪🇸 Spain	55.3	42.4	100.0	64.3	39.3	13.4
14	Universidad de Granada (UGR)	🇪🇸 Spain	53.4	30.2	56.8	68.8	67.7	47.9
15	University of Jyväskylä	🇫🇮 Finland	52.0	26.5	52.3	66.2	64.5	52.2
16	The University of Queensland (UQ)	🇦🇺 Australia	51.4	26.9	53.6	61.8	64.0	50.3
17	Anglia Ruskin University (ARU)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	51.3	20.2	79.4	86.3	32.4	31.0
17	Ghent University	🇧🇪 Belgium	51.3	22.0	83.7	72.4	33.4	30.0
19	University of British Columbia (UBC)	🇨🇦 Canada	50.0	26.9	54.5	51.1	62.8	49.0
20	Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	49.2	24.8	59.8	67.3	52.8	40.4
21	The University of Western Australia (UWA)	🇦🇺 Australia	48.9	17.4	96.2	57.3	23.0	21.2
22	University of Birmingham	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	48.5	25.5	60.8	62.9	53.5	38.1
23	Technical University of Munich (TUM)	🇩🇪 Germany	47.4	23.5	48.7	55.8	61.4	47.7
24	University College Dublin (UCD)	🇮🇪 Ireland	47.3	20.5	67.1	63.4	39.0	35.9
25	University of Calgary (UoC)	🇨🇦 Canada	46.7	24.9	51.4	56.9	61.8	41.2
26	Northeastern University (NEU)	🇺🇸 United States	46.0	25.1	100.0	49.1	12.3	9.5
27	German Sport University Cologne (DSHS)	🇩🇪 Germany	44.7	25.5	45.6	52.4	71.2	38.6
28	The University of Sydney (USYD)	🇦🇺 Australia	44.2	11.5	100.0	48.7	14.4	12.3
29	University of Bristol	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	43.9	11.1	100.0	49.5	11.2	12.2
30	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)	🇺🇸 United States	43.7	22.3	65.1	35.2	43.6	33.0
31	University of Cape Town (UCT)	🇿🇦 South Africa	43.0	13.3	72.1	81.9	23.6	20.8
32	Griffith University	🇦🇺 Australia	42.5	10.4	88.6	49.1	14.9	18.7
33	University of South Carolina-Columbia	🇺🇸 United States	42.3	19.4	64.0	31.9	38.7	34.2
34	KU Leuven (KUL)	🇧🇪 Belgium	42.1	17.7	58.8	72.8	38.3	26.4
35	University of Alberta	🇨🇦 Canada	41.9	19.5	64.6	43.9	38.4	28.6
36	Shanghai University of Sport	🇨🇳 China	41.7	22.9	36.8	37.6	79.4	41.8
37	University of South Australia	🇦🇺 Australia	41.0	15.3	67.2	49.3	28.9	27.2
38	Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)	🇪🇸 Spain	40.6	3.2	100.0	67.2	3.2	3.6
39	McMaster University	🇨🇦 Canada	40.3	14.0	80.8	37.4	22.0	18.6
40	University of Limerick (UL)	🇮🇪 Ireland	40.2	13.4	67.2	68.0	25.5	21.0
41	Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM)	🇪🇸 Spain	40.1	19.3	67.8	48.2	36.2	18.9
42	University of Pittsburgh	🇺🇸 United States	39.6	11.7	82.4	36.2	18.0	17.9
42	Laurentian University	🇨🇦 Canada	39.6	5.0	100.0	57.4	5.2	1.9
44	University of Tübingen	🇩🇪 Germany	39.5	6.2	100.0	42.2	7.5	5.2
45	Queen’s University	🇨🇦 Canada	39.3	14.2	73.6	41.3	24.5	20.2
46	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)	🇧🇷 Brazil	39.2	13.1	80.8	52.7	20.6	10.8
47	University of Newcastle Australia (UoN)	🇦🇺 Australia	38.9	14.0	62.0	42.8	28.7	28.7
48	University of Victoria	🇨🇦 Canada	38.6	8.7	81.1	55.5	13.7	13.1
49	Auckland University of Technology (AUT)	🇳🇿 New Zealand	38.4	13.8	52.6	82.2	33.5	22.1
50	Maastricht University (UM)	🇳🇱 Netherlands	38.3	12.0	61.0	54.3	25.0	26.5