The Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine in the Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, achieved 48^th place in ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments 2016.

For the ranking, a total of 110,000 unit addresses were examined and hundreds of web sites searched to form the final list of 361 universities or about 400 sport-related units that actively engage in research. The top 300 universities are published in this ranking based on the measurement of publication, citation, citations per publication, top 25% journals publications, and internationally collaborated publications.

Congratulations to ESSM for this recognition of research excellence!