Established in 1995 in Dublin, Ireland the Irish University Business School (IUBS) has built up an excellent reputation for the quality of its bachelor, masters and DBA/PhD courses.

The Irish registration allows IUBS to use the word 'university' in its title and to issue degrees. However, as a private non-traditional university it is not possible to be accredited by the Higher Educational Authorities in Ireland.

We are also working on establishing a university in Kaduna, Northern Nigeria. We are encouraged by the support we have received from the Higher Educational Authorities in Kaduna, which is keen to see these developments in an area short of such facilities.

We now have over 50 degree courses (in three languages) of which the most popular remains the BBA, MBA and the PhD. Other mainstream courses are in financial management, human resource management, information technology, procurement and logistics, and treasury management.

All our courses are conducted by distance learning and the costs range from US dollars 2,000 (including books) to the PhD at USD 8,000. Exemptions are given on a one-or-one basis related to previous examination success.

A feature of our courses is the quality of the study materials. We use only texts included on the www.amazon.co.uk best-selling lists. For each subject the contents page of the text represents the syllabus for the subject. Amazon provides an updating service so that texts and courses are continually updated.

In each subject, we test by means of a mini-thesis of a minimum of 5,000 words for first degrees and 10,000 words for master degrees. These theses are intended to ensure that the student has understood the core text and can apply the knowledge gained on a practical basis.
Great emphasis is placed on the quality of English and presentation and only work which has cleared a grammar checker set for style and grammar is accepted. The skills that students learn are much more valuable than can be learned in a typical classroom rote-learning environment.

As well as our distance-learning courses, we have traditional learning centres in Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana and Kenya. In Nigeria, we have many centres.

At our 2011 Convocation in London, we had an attendance of around 60. We expect this number to increase substantially over time.