We aim to help our students thrive in today’s competitive job market, offering excellent links to employers and a focus on one-to-one academic and career guidance in addition to our specialist courses. We take an inclusive approach to recruiting students, with an aim to widening access to higher education among groups currently under-represented in the sector.

GBS began in 2010 as a specialist training centre for finance and investment banking, offering courses to students from around the world. Over the last 14 years, we’ve evolved and grown so we can offer more qualifications to even more students.

In 2016, we opened our first campus, in London’s iconic East End and that’s what shaped the institution we are today. As one of the city’s most economically deprived areas, we quickly realised we could improve communities by reaching those from backgrounds where traditional university wasn’t an option.

We partnered with several UK universities who shared our vision, allowing us to add other academic disciplines to our portfolio. As well as continuing to offer finance and banking courses, we now have business management, construction and healthcare programmes providing even more opportunity for our students.

Fast-forward to 2024 and we have nine campuses in four of the UK’s biggest and most exciting cities – London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. With over 30,000 students studying with us, the GBS journey has only just begun.