With over 9,000 students, DBS provides full-time and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in business, marketing, management computing, law, accounting, IT, arts, creative media, psychotherapy and psychology.

The college's undergraduate and part-time degrees are recognised by Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI).

[4] In 2003, DBS was taken over by Kaplan, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, and by 2004, it had around 5,500 students.

It allowed DBS to incorporate a law school offering both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to its students.

[8] In 2008, the Lidl chain of supermarkets made an agreement with DBS to create a degree oriented to the retail industry.