Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments 2025

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

🇷🇴 Romania

🇷🇺 Russia

🇷🇸 Serbia

🇸🇬 Singapore

🇸🇮 Slovenia

🇿🇦 South Africa

🇰🇷 South Korea

🇪🇸 Spain

🇸🇪 Sweden

🇨🇭 Switzerland

🇹🇼 Taiwan

🇹🇳 Tunisia

🇹🇷 Turkey

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🇺🇸 United States

Total 300 universities

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	University	Country
1	Deakin University	🇦🇺 Australia	100.0	100.0	100.0	59.8	100.0	100.0
2	University of Southern Denmark (SDU)	🇩🇰 Denmark	78.5	54.8	100.0	71.0	62.7	55.0
3	Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH)	🇳🇴 Norway	76.6	48.2	100.0	73.2	51.3	57.1
4	University of Verona	🇮🇹 Italy	69.8	50.5	69.0	57.0	88.5	73.8
5	University of Copenhagen (UCPH)	🇩🇰 Denmark	67.6	37.0	78.2	71.0	57.2	67.0
6	Victoria University (VU)	🇦🇺 Australia	64.9	42.9	71.0	61.7	73.0	58.9
7	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)	🇳🇱 Netherlands	64.4	44.5	61.6	66.1	87.2	64.9
8	NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology	🇳🇴 Norway	62.2	32.1	89.8	54.6	43.3	37.6
9	Ghent University	🇧🇪 Belgium	62.0	22.5	100.0	73.2	25.5	25.7
10	University of Cape Town (UCT)	🇿🇦 South Africa	59.5	16.6	100.0	86.5	19.6	15.9
11	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	🇦🇺 Australia	59.3	25.9	100.0	49.0	25.9	21.4
12	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)	🇧🇷 Brazil	58.3	33.4	100.0	53.2	19.8	9.7
13	Curtin University	🇦🇺 Australia	57.3	22.5	100.0	56.8	18.0	15.3
14	Anglia Ruskin University (ARU)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	56.9	19.3	86.8	84.7	26.9	24.2
15	Loughborough University	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	56.7	35.9	58.2	56.3	74.6	54.4
16	Universidad de Granada (UGR)	🇪🇸 Spain	56.2	33.1	59.8	73.2	66.9	46.6
17	University of Victoria	🇨🇦 Canada	54.2	11.7	100.0	57.8	13.9	12.6
18	Griffith University	🇦🇺 Australia	53.8	11.4	97.2	55.1	14.2	17.6
19	The University of Sydney (USYD)	🇦🇺 Australia	53.3	13.9	100.0	58.1	10.8	7.5
19	Finis Terrae University (UFT)	🇨🇱 Chile	53.3	5.1	100.0	82.2	5.8	6.9
19	La Trobe University	🇦🇺 Australia	53.3	30.1	49.4	56.4	73.6	61.9
22	Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)	🇧🇷 Brazil	53.0	6.8	100.0	77.7	6.8	5.4
23	Shanghai University of Sport	🇨🇳 China	52.6	33.9	41.3	31.4	99.1	70.6
23	University of Bristol	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	52.6	13.6	100.0	50.6	7.8	9.6
25	University of Jyväskylä	🇫🇮 Finland	51.9	26.2	54.2	68.1	58.3	51.2
26	Technical University of Munich (TUM)	🇩🇪 Germany	51.6	27.8	54.8	60.0	61.3	49.4
27	University of Bamberg	🇩🇪 Germany	51.3	6.7	100.0	61.4	7.7	4.8
28	University of New Brunswick (UNB)	🇨🇦 Canada	50.8	9.2	100.0	54.6	6.7	4.0
29	Université Laval	🇨🇦 Canada	50.3	8.2	100.0	41.0	9.8	7.9
30	European University of Madrid	🇪🇸 Spain	50.2	24.3	71.8	50.2	40.9	27.5
31	University College Dublin (UCD)	🇮🇪 Ireland	49.4	19.7	67.6	65.9	35.2	31.7
31	University of Calgary (UoC)	🇨🇦 Canada	49.4	26.0	54.2	59.6	58.1	43.9
33	Florida State University (FSU)	🇺🇸 United States	48.9	7.1	100.0	34.0	8.1	6.7
34	Queen’s University	🇨🇦 Canada	48.0	13.6	84.4	48.4	19.5	14.0
35	Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	47.6	22.0	59.1	67.8	44.9	31.7
36	University of Münster (UM)	🇩🇪 Germany	47.1	6.1	93.3	49.7	7.9	4.5
37	Georgia Southern University	🇺🇸 United States	46.9	5.5	95.2	43.7	7.0	3.8
38	University of British Columbia (UBC)	🇨🇦 Canada	46.8	23.3	52.9	53.3	53.2	42.2
39	The University of Queensland (UQ)	🇦🇺 Australia	46.5	22.3	48.1	61.1	56.1	45.9
40	Durham University	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	45.9	5.7	88.7	53.1	7.7	6.8
40	University of Birmingham	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	45.9	21.7	54.1	68.0	48.5	32.0
42	CQUniversity Australia	🇦🇺 Australia	44.7	5.6	82.7	66.3	8.2	6.5
43	University of Potsdam (UP)	🇩🇪 Germany	43.7	4.5	76.8	84.1	7.0	6.2
44	Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	43.4	10.8	63.0	94.3	20.8	13.9
45	University of Arkansas at Fayetteville	🇺🇸 United States	43.2	10.9	79.3	35.9	16.6	11.5
46	Australian Catholic University (ACU)	🇦🇺 Australia	43.0	6.5	72.9	71.8	10.9	13.0
46	University of Basel	🇨🇭 Switzerland	43.0	11.6	60.8	83.1	23.1	19.8
48	Iowa State University (ISU)	🇺🇸 United States	42.6	7.8	82.8	34.5	11.4	8.1
49	German Sport University Cologne (DSHS)	🇩🇪 Germany	41.3	21.8	43.7	49.6	60.4	34.0
50	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	🇧🇪 Belgium	41.2	12.8	55.1	78.8	28.0	21.4