Dublin Business School (DBS), incorporating Portobello College, is a

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in Dublin, Ireland. With over 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

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(QQI). The college is owned by

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, part of the

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History

DBS was founded in 1975 as the Accountancy and Business College.DBS buys other business college, Irish Independent, 28 March 2006
/ref> In 1999, Dublin Business School acquired LSB College Dublin. In 2003, DBS was taken over by

, then a wholly owned subsidiary of

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, and, by 2004, it had around 5,500 students. In 2006, DBS bought European Business School Dublin (EBS), a collective of eight independent business schools located throughout Europe. 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. In 2008, the

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chain of supermarkets made an agreement with DBS to create a degree oriented to the retail industry.In for the long haul, Irish Times, 8 August 2008
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Campus

The Dublin Business School has six locations around Dublin. Its main campus is located at

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and

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References

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