IBS

IBS may stand for:

Academia

• International Business School, Budapest, a partnership with Oxford Brookes University based in Hungary dating from 1991
• International Biometric Society, an academic statistical association for mathematical and statistical methods in the biosciences
• Indiana Boys School, a former name of Plainfield Juvenile Correctional Facility
• Institute of Bangladesh Studies, a research institute in Rajshahi University

Associations

• Institute of Broadcast Sound, a UK broadcasting professional association-now see Institute of Professional Sound
• Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, an organization of non-profit, education-affiliated radio stations (and webcasters)
• International Bible Society, a former name of Biblica, a group that translates and publishes the Bible with the intent of Christian proselytization
• Instytutu Badań Strukturalnych, the Institute for Structural Research
• International Boy Scouts, Troop 1, a historic Boy Scout Group in Japan
• International Bank of Settlements, the international central bank of central banks

Business

• Internet Broadcasting, a web design firm focused on broadcast television
• International Builders' Show, an annual trade show organized by the National Association of Home Builders
• International Business Systems, a supply chain management company

Fiction

• IBS, a satirical news channel on the BBC's programme Broken News
• International Brotherhood of Stevedores, a dockworkers union featured in season two of the TV show The Wire

Medical

• Irritable bowel syndrome, a disorder of the bowel
• Ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens, a genetic skin disorder

Science and technology

• Intrabeam Scattering, a collective effect arising in high-intensity particle beams
• Ion-beam sputtering, a type of sputter deposition
• Identical by state, a genetic term also known as non-identical by type (NIBT)
• Instruction Based Sampling, an implementation of a hardware performance counter used to collect performance data in a superscalar microprocessor
• Integrated bridge system, a navigation related system on ships
• Ideal body size, a component of the figure rating scale
• Israel Broadcasting Authority (a.k.a. the IBA, f.k.a. the IBS)
• The Institute for Basic Science, a Korean government funded basic science institute

Other uses

• Iman Budhi Santosa, an Indonesian poet
• Industrialised Building System (IBS), a term used in Malaysia for a technique of construction