2021 Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments

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ShanghaiRanking first published the Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments in 2016. This ranking adopts a unique methodology highlighting the performance of more than 300 universities with sport-related units, allowing sport-related institutions and units to compare with similar peers other than with multi-disciplinary universities in a certain subject. Top 300 universities are listed based on the measurement of publication, citation, citations per publication, top 25% journals publications, and internationally collaborated publications. The bibliometric data is collected from the Web of Science database with a time window of five years. Among the top 300 in the 2020 list, 15 units are sport universities, and 285 are universities with sports-related units. 42 universities have more than 1 sport-related institution or unit. (Methodology)
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Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments
300 Institutions
World Rank Institution
Total Score
1
100.0 95.4
2
91.7 72.9
3
90.9 91.6
4
86.1 100.0
5
76.1 93.6
6
72.0 96.3
7
69.7 69.3
8
68.0 69.7
9
67.8 78.3
10
67.5 64.7
11
65.7 64.6
12
59.6 60.0
13
58.2 70.9
14
57.9 57.0
15
57.3 39.8
16
57.1 81.4
16
57.1 54.1
18
54.6 30.5
19
53.7 39.0
20
52.8 44.3
21
52.4 58.6
22
52.1 39.5
23
51.9 56.8
24
51.4 44.8
25
51.3 36.4
25
51.3 58.4
27
51.2 56.1
28
49.4 21.3
29
48.6 31.0
30
47.7 41.0
* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.