Isle of Man International Business School Isle of Man International Business School The Isle of Man International Business School () is an institution of higher education on the Isle of Man. The Business School is located in the Nunnery mansion estate, close to the island's capital Douglas. It provides various academic degrees and professional qualifications in many different areas of business and finance, to students from all around the world. The building changed its use in 2012. From a standalone institution, it has become a campus of the Isle of Man College dedicated to higher education. In 2016, the college changed its name to University College
History of the Isle of Man possession of the Scottish and then the English crowns. Since 1866, the Isle of Man has been a Crown Dependency and has democratic self-government. The Isle of Man effectively became an island around 8,500 years ago at around the time when rising sea levels caused by the melting glaciers cut Mesolithic Britain off from continental Europe for the last time. A land bridge had earlier existed between the Isle of Man and Cumbria, but the location and opening of the land bridge remain poorly understood. The earliest traces of people on the Isle of Man date back to the Mesolithic