London School of Business and Finance - LSBF

The London School of Business and Finance (informally LSBF) is a for-profit private business school based in the United Kingdom. It is owned by the corporate group Global University Systems. LBSF was founded in 2003 by the entrepreneur Aaron Etingen. By 2015 it had become one of England's largest private colleges. The school is completely separate from and not affiliated with the similarly-named London Business School (LBS, which is the graduate business school of the University of London), The London Institute of Banking & Finance (formerly ifs University College) or the London School of Economics.

The school has its main base in London with sites in Tower Hill and Holborn and has further UK branches in Manchester and Birmingham. It also has an international branch in Singapore. LSBF offers Master's degree programmes in management, finance and marketing; bachelor's degrees; executive and corporate training; and professional qualification training for the ACCA, CFA and CIMA qualifications.

LSBF does not have degree-awarding powers of its own. All degrees are awarded by external institutions. As of 2016, its visa sponsor licence has been revoked by the UK government and it cannot offer work placement or long-term courses to non-European Union students. 

LSBF was established in 2003, and has grown from a single college focused on professional qualifications to an international network delivering a wide range of degrees in partnership with a variety of schools and associations. The college now has campuses all over the world including the UK, Singapore, and Canada, as well as using the online platform InterActive to deliver education to students who can’t attend a campus.It is a member of Global University Systems (GUS), which is a growing network of 20 institutions and academic partners providing education to over 40,000 students worldwide.

The first overseas campus was opened in Toronto, Canada, in 2011. It was followed by the Singapore campus later that year, making LSBF the first UK-based business school to have a campus in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, there are now representative offices for LSBF throughout the world, including Colombia, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.

In 2013, LSBF won the Queen's Award for Enterprise. LSBF won two Global Business Excellence Awards in 2014 for ‘Outstanding Educational Service’ and ‘Outstanding Executive’.