ESOFT Computer Studies is a private sector

Private sector

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 educational institute or college

College

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 located in Colombo

Colombo

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, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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. Established in the year 2000, the company today has 36 branches nationwide. It is headed by Dr. Dayan Rajapakse

Dayan Rajapakse

Chaminda Dayan Rajapakse, MBBS, MBCS, MIEEE, MCS is a Sri Lankan physician, educator and businessman. He is the CEO and Managing Director of ESOFT Computer Studies Pvt Ltd , which is a private sector educational institute in Sri Lanka.Educated at the prestigious Maliyadeva College Kurunegala, he...

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Early years

ESOFT was established in the 2000 at Kirilapone

Kirilapone

Kirilapone is a suburb in Colombo, Sri Lanka....

 (which is suburban area of Colombo, Sri Lanka), and initially offered training services for students that were preparing for the BCS

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

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 (UK) Professional Examinations. They subsequently moved to their present location in Bambalapitiya

Bambalapitiya

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 (Colombo) which is a hub for IT training in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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Recognition

Although ESOFT started teaching for the BCS Exams in 2000, ESOFT was designated as an Accredited Course Provider of the BCS in the year 2008, in recognition of the standards that are maintained in the course delivery. ESOFT is the only organisation in the world to be accredited for all three levels of the BCS Higher Education Qualifications (as at November 2010). ESOFT has also produced several prize winners (high achievers) over the past few years for the BCS and BIT programmes
The University of Moratuwa has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ESOFT appointing it as a Collaborative Partner for offering the Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) External Degree. Such an appointment is made after an extensive evaluation process and ESOFT is one of only three such partners to be appointed. ESOFT currently conducts the BIT programme in Colombo, Kandy, Kurunegala, and Jaffna. As of 2011, the University of Moratuwa has stopped conducting the programme online and is working purely via the partner mode.

Edexcel (UK) has Accredited ESOFT to conduct the Higher National Diploma (HND) Programmes in Computing since 2009 and Business Management since 2010.

CSR Activities

ESOFT is involved in several Corporate Social Responsibility activities and one of the most recent is their platinum level sponsorship of the Edex 2011 Education and Careers Expo held in January 2011. ESOFT also has a Mobile Unit - a bus fitted with 20 workstations - which is sent to rural areas and to schools to provide positive experiences to students who may not have even seen or used a computer before.

Branching Out

ESOFT started expanding into regional areas in 2005 and then launched the Accelerated Expansion Project (AEP) to increase the total number of branches to 27 by the end of the year 2010.

Serial No	Branch Location	Date Established
1	Colombo	2000
2	Kurunegala	2005
3	Kandy	2006
4	Battaramulla	2006
-	Kotahena	2006 (closed in 2009)
5	Anuradhapura	2006
6	Matara	2008
7	Piliyandala	2008
8	Negombo	2008
9	Jaffna	2009
10	Nelliady	2009
11	Batticaloa	2009
12	Bandarawela	2010
13	Nawalapitiya	2010
14	Kilinochchi	2010
15	Chavakachcheri	2010
16	Matale	2010
17	Embilipitiya	2010
18	Ja-Ela	2010
19	Galle	2010
20	Kalmunai	2010
21	Kiribathgoda	2010
22	Kegalle	2010
23	Vavuniya	2010
24	Mannar	2010
25	Polonnaruwa	2010
26	Wattala	2010
27	Wennappuwa	2010
28	Minuwangoda	2011
29	Monaragala	2011
30	Kuliyapitiya	2011
31	Gampaha	2011
32	Hatton	2011
33	Nittambuwa	2011
34	Homagama	2011
35	Hambanthota	2011
36	Ratnapura	2011