We are delighted to announce that UCD SPHPSS Institute for Sport & Health has again been ranked #1 in Ireland in the ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments. In a highly competitive field, we are now #24 in the world, up from #25 in 2022 and #34 in 2021. These rankings reflect the School’s commitment to continually improving and enhancing our world-class sports science education and facilities for 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 fourth year running, UCD Sports Science has been placed in the world top 50 by ShanghaiRanking, achieving our best result so far of 24th in 2023. 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. This new ranking cements UCD’s place in the global hierarchy of Sports Science providers and gives us a consistent platform to deliver world class research and teaching into the future.”
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments was first published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy in 2016. Universities with sport-related departments/units are ranked by several indicators of academic and research performance including articles/papers indexed in Web of Science, total citations, citations per article/paper, articles/papers published in the top 25% journals, and the percentage of internationally collaborated articles/papers. Since 2018, UCD has consistently been ranked within the top #100 in the ARWU Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments. No other university with a sport-related department/unit in Ireland has been consistently ranked within the top #100 over the same time-period. Since 2018, UCD has received the following rankings:
2023 – #24
2022 – #25
2021 – #34
2020 – #45
2019 – no rankings published
2018 – #51-100.
19th December 2023