2018年QS世界大学排名已正式发布，QS世界大学排名被视为目前世界最具影响力的排名之一，本次排名涵盖46个不同学术领域的11000余个位次，是目前为止最大规模也是最复杂的大学排名。其专业排名自2011年以来每年发布，排名主要依据学术声誉、雇主声誉和科研影响力三方面。不同学科排名方法不同，反映出不同的关注重点和数据可用性。
| 2018年QS世界大学排名——体育专业 | |
| 排名 | 院校名称 |
| 1 | Loughborough University |
| 1 | The University of Sydney |
| 3 | The University of Queensland |
| 4 | University of British Columbia |
| 5 | University of Birmingham |
| 6 | University of Toronto |
| 7 | University of Alberta |
| 8 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 9 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 10 | Seoul National University |
| 11 | The University of Hong Kong |
| 12 | University of Otago |
| 13 | University of Exeter |
| 14 | University of Florida |
| 15 | University of Copenhagen |
| 16 | University of Bath |
| 17 | University of Michigan |
| 18 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 19 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 20 | Universidade de São Paulo |
| 21 | McMaster University |
| 21 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 21 | The University of Western Australia |
| 24 | National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| 25 | University of Tsukuba |
| 26 | McGill University |
| 27 | The Ohio State University |
| 28 | The University of Auckland |
| 29 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 30 | Deakin University |
| 30 | KU Leuven |
| 32 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) |
| 33 | Ghent University |
| 33 | University of Technology Sydney |
| 35 | Michigan State University |
| 36 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 37 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 37 | University of Cape Town |
| 39 | University College London |
| 40 | Waseda University |
| 41 | University of Calgary |
| 42 | Auckland University of Technology (AUT) |
| 42 | Boston University |
| 44 | Liverpool John Moores University |
| 44 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 46 | Kyoto University |
| 47 | Cornell University |
| 47 | Northwestern University |
| 49 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| 50 | The University of Western Ontario |
