Dublin Business School

DBS building on Aungier Street, Dublin
Former names	Accountancy and Business College[1]
Type	Private
Established	1975
Students	Approximately 9,000[2]
Address	Aungier Street , Dublin , Ireland 53°20′26″N 6°15′56″W / 53.3406°N 6.2656°W / 53.3406; -6.2656
Owner	Kaplan Inc.[2]
Affiliations	QQI, HECA
Website	dbs.ie

Dublin Business School (DBS), incorporating Portobello College,^[1] is a private college in Dublin, Ireland. With approximately 9,000 students, DBS provides full-time and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in business, marketing, management computing, law, accounting, IT, arts, creative media, psychotherapy and psychology. The college's undergraduate and part-time degrees are recognised by Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI). The college is owned by Kaplan, Inc., part of the Graham Holdings Company.

History[edit]

DBS was founded in 1975 as 'Accountancy and Business College'.^[3] In 1999, Dublin Business School acquired LSB College Dublin.^[4]

In 2003, DBS was taken over by Kaplan, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, and by 2004, it had around 5,500 students.^[3][5]

In 2006, DBS bought European Business School Dublin (EBS), a collective of eight independent business schools located throughout Europe.^[6][7]

Portobello College, a law school led by Raymond Kearns, was taken over by DBS in 2007. It allowed DBS to incorporate a law school offering both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to its students.^[8]

In 2008, the Lidl chain of supermarkets made an agreement with DBS to create a degree oriented to the retail industry.^[9]

Campus[edit]

The Dublin Business School has six locations around Dublin. Its main campus is located at Aungier Street and South Great George's Street.^{[citation needed]}

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