London School of Commerce is fully accredited by Accreditation Service for International Colleges and is a member of Education UK. LSC was one of the first hundred colleges in the UK to be granted the Highly Trusted Sponsor status by the UK Border Agency for the Tier 4 student visa. The School was founded with the primary aim of providing cost-effective education leading to internationally recognized British degrees in Business Management and Information Technology. Students also have the opportunity to achieve their educational goals within a condensed time frame of two years for Bachelor studies. LSC hosts students from more than 130 different nationalities studying at the London Campus. The LSC Group of Colleges has its operations worldwide, with campuses in Malta, Colombo, Kuala Lumpur and Dhaka. The LSC is accredited by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education, Association of Independent Higher Education Providers and the DFE. LSC is also a member of Education UK – British Council, registered with the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills on its Register of Education and Training Providers.
History
The London School of Commerce was founded November 1999, with an initial group of 55 students. They studied postgraduate and undergraduate programmes in Business and Computing in collaboration with Charles Sturt University, Australia. In 2007, with the widening portfolio of collaborations, another sub-division, the School of Business and Law was formed, which conducts more specialised programmes in Accounting and Business. The School of Business and Law is an Associate College of the University of Gloucestershire. Simultaneously the Group started expanding overseas, and opened two campuses; Westminster International College in Kuala Lumpur and Asian Centre for Management and Information Technology in Bangladesh. Three new colleges were added in 2010–2011. A new division in Sri Lanka was validated on 1 December 2010, and officially opened on 1 February 2011 as the British School of Commerce. Another campus in Belgrade, Serbia was validated on 8 December 2010, and officially opened on 8 February 2011. The LSC Group has formed a Charity Foundation known as COPTE. The Charity is registered in order to sponsor educational projects, primarily in developing countries. The COPTE mission is to assist destitute children in their educational path, through direct and philanthropic grant giving in order that the poverty cycle may be broken. One of the projects to receive support form COPTE in 2009 was Maw Sevana Home for Boys, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
London School of Commerce group of colleges consists of local and overseas campuses. The main LSC campus is located in the vicinity of London Bridge. There are several subsidiary campuses located in Hannibal House, in the Elephant and Castle district of London and nearby Pocock House on Southwark Bridge Road. Additional classroom facilities are located close to London Bridge Station in Melior Street and Fenning Street. LSC London offers BA, MSc and MBA programmes in Business Management, Finance, Marketing and IT.
London School of Commerce Malta is located in Floriana, Malta, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The school offers the opportunity for students to study English and obtain an internationally recognized MBA degree awarded by the University of Bedfordshire.
Colombo, Sri Lanka
The British School of Commerce in Colombo was validated on 1 December 2010. The opening ceremony was held at the campus on 1 February 2011 with traditional Kandyan dancers and a candlelighting ceremony according to traditional Sri Lankan customs. The courses at the campus include Business Administration, Information Technology, International Hospitality Management and International Tourism Management. BSC in Colombo is a regional centre for students from Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and the Maldives.
The LSC campus in Bangladesh started operating in 2007 and is located in the Banani district of Dhaka, close to the diplomatic enclave and business centres. The most recent campus building in the Gulshan Thana was opened in 2010 to accommodate Degree Foundation students.
