Ranked 6th in the world for Sport Science
Source: ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments, 2025 Placement won by its College of Sport, Health & Engineering.
Full ranking profile 29 placements
Every placement the Index records for Victoria University. The headline figure is the strongest of these.
| Ranking table | Publisher | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| ARWU GRSSSD 2025 Headline Sport Science College of Sport, Health & Engineering | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =6 |
| ARWU GRSSSD 2024 Sport Science College of Sport and Exercise Science | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =7 |
| THE Impact 2024 clean water and sanitation (SDG 6) | Times Higher Education | =19 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Human Movement & Sports Sciences | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =25 |
| QS by Subject 2025 Sports-related Subjects | Quacquarelli Symonds | =43 |
| Leiden 2025 biomedical and health sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =57 |
| Leiden 2025 mathematics and computer science (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =113 |
| RUR 2026 financial sustainability | RUR Rankings Agency | =139 |
| Nature 2025 Earth & environmental sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =203 |
| Leiden 2025 scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =220 |
| SCImago 2025 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | SCImago Research Group | =340 |
| Leiden 2025 social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =384 |
| SCImago 2025 Earth and Planetary Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =409 |
| THE 2026 | Times Higher Education | =501 |
| NTU 2025 Engineering | National Taiwan University | =501 |
| Time 2026 | Time / Statista | =512 |
| Leiden 2025 physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =515 |
| NTU 2025 Social Sciences | National Taiwan University | =551 |
| RUR 2026 international diversity | RUR Rankings Agency | =605 |
| QS 2026 | Quacquarelli Symonds | =741 |
| RUR 2026 | RUR Rankings Agency | =770 |
| Webomet 2025.2 (July 2025) | Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC | =770 |
| NTU 2025 | National Taiwan University | =851 |
| Leiden 2025 life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =852 |
| RUR 2026 teaching | RUR Rankings Agency | =881 |
| RUR 2026 research | RUR Rankings Agency | =886 |
| URAP 2025-2026 | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =1108 |
| MosIUR 2025 | Association of Rating Makers (MosIUR) | =1201 |
| Leiden 2025 | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =1441 |
Banded results are recorded at the lower bound of the band. For how the headline figure is selected, see the methodology.