According to the Shanghai Ranking 2024, the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences of the University of Guilan was ranked as one of the best sports faculties in the world with a ranking range of 151-200 and the best sports faculty in Iran in the category of faculties and departments of sports sciences.

This ranking, conducted annually since 2016, examines the performance of more than 300 universities with sports-related departments. Its aim is to provide a fair comparison between educational institutions in the field of sports sciences. The number of articles indexed in the Web of Science, total citations, citations per article, percentage of articles published in the top 25% of journals, and percentage of articles with international collaboration are among the criteria for this ranking.