QS has today published  the results of the 2015 edition of the Top Under 50 ranking, a classification the company has produced since 2012 of the best universities in the world under 50 years of age. In this edition,  UPF has come in 27 ^th place globally,  improving four places compared to last year, and is eighth in Europe and third in the Spanish State.

Parallel with this classification, QS also publishes other products that evaluate the results of universities according to field of knowledge or, more specifically, discipline. According to the former, UPF ranks 119 ^thbest university in the world for Social Sciences and Management and 235 ^th for Humanities. Moreover, in the classification by subject, UPF stands out for Economics and Econometrics, where it comes 23 ^rd in the world and is among the top two hundred for Linguistics, Accounting and Finance, Communication and Media Studies, Law and Politics and International Studies.

Asian dominance of the ranking

The ranking shows a clear majority of European universities among the top 50 (23), followed by Asian (16) and Australian (8) universities. However, in keeping with the trend of previous years, the top positions continue to be held by Asian universities, mainly from Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea.

The QS ranking of young universities is produced on the basis of the results obtained in the overall classification, published by the company the previous September. In the overall classification for 2015, QS made some changes to its methodology in order to normalize the data of publications and citations from various areas in order to reduce differences between disciplines.