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Oxford College of Business ties up with world renowned Heriot-Watt University - UK

Just as James Watt, the well-known inventor, fuelled the industrial revolution from the highlands of Scotland, Oxford Business College (OCB) has spurred education to the lofty heights of excellence in Sri Lanka by being the exclusive Approved Learning Partner (ALP) of the prestigious and world renowned Heriot-Watt University.

Oxford College of Business now prides itself of yet another incredible success of concluding an agreement to collaborate with Heriot-Watt University - UK to deliver their Top-up Degree in the field of Management right here in Sri Lanka at OCB which is home to ABE of UK. Thanks to the excellent management at OCB which throughout its years of operation was able to showcase OCB's strengths as a very successful provider of high quality education through its students' consistent record of world class performance in addition to OCB's ability to maintain its unyielding market leadership in the delivery of Association of Business Executive (ABE)-UK programmes, an achievement unparalleled in the private education sector of Sri Lanka.

All students on completion of Higher National Diploma of ABE or with an equivalent qualification acceptable to the Heriot-Watt University will be eligible for admission to the Top-up degree of one year's duration offered through OCB as exclusive Approved Learning Partnership of Heriot-Watt University at an affordable fee. This is a grand and unique opportunity for Sri Lankan students to obtain a world class degree from an internationally recognised and highest top ranking UK university currently present in Sri Lanka.

Ranked 20 according to the recent Guardian ranking system, and with a student population of nearly 17,000, Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, is the eighth-oldest higher education institution in the UK originating as the School of Arts of Edinburgh in 1821. Heriot-Watt is also Scotland's most international university with an unsurpassed international in-country presence. The University delivers degree programmes to 11,800 students in 150 countries around the world, has a campus in Dubai and boasts the largest international student cohort in Scotland.

Heriot-Watt University is committed to continuous improvement and development in all its activities. It focuses on responding to the changing needs of business, industry and society and finding solutions to the global challenges of the 21st century.

Building on established expertise in key, specialist areas, Heriot-Watt 's aim is to produce the next generation of leaders and thinkers who make a difference in the world.

Heriot-Watt University is already leading the way in areas as varied as energy, the environment and climate change, risk and modelling, infrastructure and transport, and the interface between life and physical sciences.

While congratulating OCB on its recognition as the ALP of Heriot -Watt University, it is now up to the prospective students to take this golden opportunity to graduate from a world class university here in Sri Lanka.

BBA Top-Up Degree
Programme commencement June 12 2010
Programme duration 12 calendar months (1 Year)
Entry Criteria ABE Advanced Diploma or HND in Management
Class Days Saturdays and Sundays
For further details please contact - 4718711/2
(Hotlines) 0773817556 or 0773 612555
Please visit our office at No. 100, Thurstan Road, Colombo 3.

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