ShanghaiRanking Consultancy has publishing the Academic Ranking of World Universities since 2009. Below are the top university Sport Science Schools and Departments for 2017. A total of 367 world-wide universities were compared.

Ranking Method

The universities are ranked by three main indicators of academic or research performance: Research Output (papers indexed in Web of Science, total citations), Research Quality (citations per paper, papers published in top 25% journals) and International Collaboration (percentage of internationally collaborated papers of an institution).

Top 20 Sport Science Institutions

The top-ranked university sport science course was Deakin University's School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, located in Victoria Australia. Second was the UK's Loughborough University, which was the top-ranked of the Best Universities in Sport Sciences in 2015.

rank university total score
1 Deakin University: School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences 100.0
2 Loughborough University: School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences 89.9
3 Norwegian School of Sport Sciences: Norwegian School of Sport Sciences 89.1
4 University of South Carolina - Columbia: Department of Exercise Science, Department of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management, Department of Physical Education and Athletic Training 88.5
5 The University of Queensland: School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences 78.5
6 University of Southern Denmark: Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics 73.5
7 KU Leuven: Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences 70.2
8 German Sport University Cologne: German Sport University Cologne 69.8
9 Liverpool John Moores University: School of Sport and Exercise Sciences 67.3
10 Ghent University: Department of Movement and Sport Science 67.0
11 University of Birmingham: School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences 65.6
12 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Department of Human Movement Sciences 65.2
13 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, Department of Recreation,Sport and Toursim 63.8
13 Verona University: Faculty of Exercise and Sport Science, Sport,Mountains,and Health Research Center 63.8
15 Maastricht University: Department of Human Movement Science 63.3
16 York University: School of Kinesiology and Health Science 62.0
17 University of British Columbia: Allan Mcgavin Sports Medical Center, School of Health and Exercise Science, School of Kinesiology 59.7
18 University of Copenhagen: Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Institute of Sports Medicine 57.9
19 Edith Cowan University: School of Exercise and Health Sciences 56.9
20 The University of Western Australia: School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health 56.8