16 April 2024

The QS ranking places URL as the best university in Spain and 21st in the world in Business & Management

La Salle Barcelona – Universitat Ramon Llull is one of the three centers that offer studies in this discipline

The QS World University Ranking by Subject 2024, one of the most reputable and prestigious international rankings on higher education, recognizes the Universitat Ramon Llull, of which the La Salle Barcelona campus is a founding member, as the best university in Spain and 21st in the world in the field of Business & Management. La Salle Barcelona – Universitat Ramon Llull is one of the three centres, along with IQS-URL and ESADE-URL, which provides studies in this field through the La Salle International School of Commerce and Digital Economy (FICEDLS). The good results reinforce educational excellence as one of the defining attributes of campus education.

Among the studies taught at La Salle Barcelona - Universitat Ramon Llull, in the field of Marketing, URL has been classified 1st in Spain and in the 20-50 range in the world; and in Finance, which enters the ranking for the first time, ranking 4th in Spain and in the top 100 worldwide.

In the field of Social Sciences and Management, URL is ranked 6th in Spain, and in the top 100 worldwide out of a total of 530 institutions. This field includes sixteen different studies, among which are Management, Law, Politics and Economics.

The QS World University Ranking by Subject is one of the most prestigious international university rankings and this edition has measured the educational excellence of more than 1,500 educational institutions in 96 countries and in 55 disciplines. The ranking uses five criteria to draw up the rankings: the results of more than 150,000 responses to a reputation survey of academics from around the world; 99,000 responses from another employer reputation survey; the number of citations in scientific publications during a five-year period; and finally, the H Index, which is based on the set of most cited publications and the number of citations they have received in other scientific articles.

The FICEDLS, benchmark in Business & Management studies

FICEDLS offers three degrees and two double degrees in the field of Business & Management:

In addition, it also teaches postgraduates, MBAs, highly prestigious masters and Executive Education programs.