We are delighted to announce that UCD SPHPSS Institute for Sport & Health has been ranked #1 in Ireland and #34 in the ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments. This ranking reflects the School’s commitments to offering world-class sports science education and facilities to our students and producing internationally recognised research in the sports science area.
Professor Colin Boreham, Director of the UCD SPHPSS Institute for Sport & Health said:
“We are delighted that for the third year running, UCD Sports Science has been placed in the world top 50 by ShanghaiRanking. This is a tribute to all the hard work from colleagues across disciplines who come together to solve research questions in fields spanning exercise and health across the lifespan, sports injury prevention, advanced sensor technology, sports management and performance sport. Following on from our recent successful hosting of the European College of Sports Sciences Congress, this new ranking cements UCD’s place in the world hierarchy of Sports Science providers.”
ShanghaiRanking Consultancy is a fully independent organization dedicated to research on higher education intelligence and consultation. It has been the official publisher of the Academic Ranking of World Universities since 2009. It has been publishing the Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments rankings since 2016, adopting a unique methodology highlighting the performance of universities with sport-related units. In 2021, 460 universities with 515 sport-related units were selected and ranked. Universities are ranked by several indicators of academic or research performance, including papers indexed in Web of Science, total citations, citations per paper, papers published in the top 25% journals, and the percentage of internationally collaborated papers.