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Best Sports Universities in Europe 2026 – QS World University Rankings

Best Sports Universities in Europe 2026 – QS World University Rankings

The science of sports has emerged relatively recently, but every year it is becoming more and more popular as the sports industry gains momentum. Huge funds are invested in sports events, a whole world has arisen around the sport itself: organizations that manage sports, build sports facilities, organize competitions at all levels, cover them and so on.

All these activities require trained specialists. Activities for the organization of sports events attract many sponsors, as a huge audience of interested viewers makes these events promising for advertising companies. This explains the special popularity of the specialty "Sports Management" in universities.

 

Future sports managers in European universities study both general disciplines that will allow them to make a career not only in the field of sports, but also specific:

  • Administration of information systems
  • Study of tools for analysis, evaluation of the role of digital communities, social media in sports
  • Study of the operating environment of sports organizations, functional areas, analytical tools
  • Micro and macroeconomics
  • Mastering the main tools of sports market research - qualitative and quantitative analysis, diagnostics
  • Mastering the main marketing strategies for the internationalization of sports events
  • Mastering the skills of analysis, implementation of marketing, sponsorship strategies, launch, positioning of new products
  • Strategic Management
  • Human Resource Management
  • Finance
  • Formation of product, pricing policy.

In recent decades, fitness ideas have gained immense popularity:

  • Healthy lifestyle
  • Healthy Eating
  • Sports nutrition
  • Methods of rejuvenation of the body
  • Prolongation of active longevity.

Specialists in the field of fitness are in demand no less than in the field of sports, their work is also highly paid.

Universities also provide the necessary knowledge for students of sports departments in the field of:

  • Psychology
  • Pedagogy
  • Skills in managing personnel and business
  • Communication skills.

The rating "Best Sports Universities in Europe" reveals the latest potential opportunities of European universities in the field of training specialists for sports and fitness. For example: universities in Barcelona are famous by their football sports programs.

1 Loughborough University
2 Liverpool John Moores University
3 University of Birmingham
4 University of Bath
5 The University of Edinburgh
6 KU Leuven
7 University of Copenhagen
8 The University of Exeter
9 UCL
10 University of Jyväskylä
11 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
12 Durham University
13 Ghent University
14 Leeds Beckett University
15 Maastricht University
16 Manchester Metropolitan University
17 Swansea University
18 The University of Manchester
19 Universitat de Barcelona
20 University College Dublin
21 University of Bristol
22 University of Glasgow
23 University of Granada
24 University of Groningen
25 University of Leeds
26 University of Limerick
27 University of Nottingham
28 University of Oslo
29 University of Porto
30 University of Southern Denmark
31 Utrecht University
32 Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
33 Cardiff Metropolitan University
34 Dublin City University
35 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
36 Erasmus University Rotterdam
37 Northumbria University at Newcastle
38 Nottingham Trent University
39 Oxford Brookes University
40 Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
41 Ulster University
42 Universitat de Valencia
43 University of Brighton
44 University of Lausanne
45 University of Lisbon
46 University of Milan
47 University of Stirling
48 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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