We’re proud to be named Sports University of the Year for the fourth time by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.
Our success is hard-earned. As an institution, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ has invested tens of millions in our state-of-the-art performance sport facilities and infrastructure. But we recognise that our greatest asset is our people.
It’s our practitioners, counsellors, rehabilitation specialists, trainers and groundskeepers. It’s our extensive volunteer network. It’s our engineers and sports scientists. And it’s our elite coaches and athletes, both full-time students and those who make use of our world-class facilities.
Our facilities may attract the best people. But it’s our commitment to a more equitable, inclusive and diverse sport ecosystem, where the benefits of sport are accessible to all, that keeps them here.
Sports University of the Year
The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025
Sport University of the Year
Daily Mail Good University Guide 2025
Yet again º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ has been awarded Sports University of the Year 2025. The medal count of athletes who have studied and trained at º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ at the Paris Olympics and Paralympics was an astonishing 35. º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ’s campus hosts the governing bodies of England Netball, England and Wales Cricket, British Weightlifting, British Swimming, British Triathlon, and British Athletics.
º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ close out Paris campaign with 35 medals
º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ-linked athletes capped an incredible summer of sport by bringing home 35 medals across both Paris games.
A total of 19 medals were won at the Paralympic Games by athletes with an affiliation to º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ – seven gold, six silver, and six bronze – as the institution finished as a top 20 nation should it be reclassified as a country.
This magnificent haul added to the 16 medals won earlier in the summer during the first phase of the Paris Games (four gold, four silver, and eight bronze). º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ’s performances would have seen it finish 16th in the official standings ahead of nations such as Brazil, Austria, South Africa, and Jamaica.
What makes us º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ?
Dedicated sports research centres
Our East Midlands campus incorporates four dedicated centres for sport and exercise research: the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences (SSEHS), the Sports Technology Institute, the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport and our Institute for Sport Business in London.
Performance sport programmes
º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ offers 18 performance sport programmes, including specialist programmes for women and disabled athletes.
Sporting Hall of Fame
Dozens of º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ alumni, from Lord Sebastian Coe and Paula Radcliffe, to recent inductees Ama Agbeze, Maddie Hinch and Laura Unsworth, have been welcomed into the University’s Hall of Fame.
Home to global sports organisations
º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ is home to critical research and development facilities for major UK and global sports organisations and governing bodies, including the England and Wales Cricket Board, our º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ Lightning franchises for football, cycling, netball and wheelchair basketball - and the NFL Academy.
Premier sporting facilities
The Premier League uses º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ’s facilities for its youth football national tournaments, making º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ a critical stop on the journey to career stardom, while their match official accreditation body trains the UK’s top referees and match officials in º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ facilities.
We’re proud that sport is in our DNA.
We’ve used that heritage to build a thriving sports and exercise research and innovation ecosystem on both our East Midlands and London campuses. Our performance sport offer has created the conditions for our top researchers and innovators to collaborate with elite athletes to unlock the secrets of the human body, and breakthroughs in health, wellbeing and mobility.
