The objective of Imperial College of Business Studies (ICBS) is to provide, a concrete academic and professional support for students to take up CIMA / ACCA or Bachelorโs degree examinations confidently. ICBS is fully geared for this, as we have a number of positive factors to boast,
CIMA Premium Learning Partner
ACCA Approved Learning Partner
More than 30 years of tuition provision in the industry
Only institute in Sri Lanka with Global exposure, having franchised operations in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan
Only CIMA institute in Sri Lanka, to train armed forces and CFOโs
Commenced as one of the first institute to promote CIMA education in Sri Lanka as Colombo Business School (CBS) in 1985, CBS became Imperial College of Business Studies (ICBS) when it was incorporated in 2002 with a new outlook. Currently ICBS, is one of the fastest growing education providers, with a population of 2,000 students, and also having the exclusive privilege to train the Armed forces of Sri Lanka (SL Navy & SL Army) for CIMA exams, and also the only institute to be selected to train the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) of various companies in Sri Lanka for CIMA. Also Imperial College of Business Studies is the only institute in Sri Lanka, selected by CIMA Sri Lanka division on multiple occasion conduct โTrain The Trainerโ (TTT) programme for lectures from various countries. In the year 2004, CIMA (UK) introduced an award for CIMA teaching institutes, the prestigious โCIMA Quality Partnerโ status, and Imperial College of Business Studies was one of the first institute in Sri Lanka to be accredited by CIMA (UK) with that award, which was given for the quality of tuition support given. Today ICBS can proudly boast that it is the only CIMA institute in Sri Lanka and also in the South Asian region to hold two โCIMA Premium Learning Quality Partnerโ status award by CIMA (UK) for its two operations in Colombo and Kandy. The recent milestones in the journey of Imperial College of Business Studies is remarkable, in 2010, ICBS started its operations in Kandy and became a โPremium learning partnerโ in 2013, and in 2015, they commenced to offer ACCA tuition support and got the Silver status in a very short time. The latest โJewel in the Crownโ was the affiliation with the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) in March 2016, where a BA (Hons) International Business & Finance degree programme is offered, which is a GLOBAL 1st initiative, where for the 1st time, both CIMA & ACCA has come forward to offer 20 of their subjects exempted for completing just first 2 years of the degree programme.
