Music college BIMM - home to Tom Odell and The Kooks - up for sale - Telegraph Since then, the business, led by managing director Adam Carswell, has gone on to buy Tech Music School in London, and set up new colleges in Dublin, in 2011, and in Manchester, earlier this year. In terms of students, numbers have increased from 1,150 in 2010 to more than 3,400 today. Each of the college provides qualifications validated by local universities. However tuition is somewhat cheaper than mainstream universities, costing £6,000 a year in fees compared to the maximum £9,000 at major universities. Alumni include Tom Odell, whose debut album charted at number one in the album chart this summer, Brighton rock band The Kooks and Ben Thompson, drummer with Northern Irish indie band Two Door Cinema Club. BIMM was originally founded by a group of four backers in 2001, including Bruce Dickinson, former guitarist with the Little Angels. BIMM's reputation for educating students has attracted a number of leading musicians to its doors, with Roger Daltrey, frontman of "The Who" presenting the ceremony's at this year's Brighton graduation, for example. It is thought interest has come from a number of existing education providers, as well as private equity backers interested in expanding the BIMM brand in the UK and overseas. The sale, when it comes, will be part of a continuing trend in the private equity and venture capital industry for the sale of educational establishments. Teachers' Private Capital bought nursery chain Busy Bees for £220m in September, while Nord Anglia bought international school specialist World Class Learning from Sovereign in April. A Sovereign spokesman confirmed that Rothschild had been appointed "to review strategic options" but declined to comment further.