Full Sail University Information
Campus
Full Sail University’s capital campus is amid alfresco of Winter Park, Florida, in unincorporated Orange County, 8.6 afar (13.8 km) northeast of city Orlando. The academy campus contains the axial authoritative offices, university library, and bookish buildings, including a assembly backlot, added than 110 studios and assembly environments, blur backlot, auditorium, and Abounding Sail Studios. The university confused to Winter Park in 1989. Renovation and amplification into surrounding barrio began in 1995, growing into three added barrio by 2004. In 2009, the university broadcast into a fifth building, a 49,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) amplitude abreast campus to board educators for the online amount program.
A 2.2 acre (0.89 ha) ability called Abounding Sail Studios opened in 2010, consisting of a 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m2) multi-purpose area and a two-story 10,600-square-foot (980 m2) recording flat and bold assembly flat called Blackmoor afterwards the backward Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and adviser from 1999 to 2009. This accession aswell completed the blur backlot, accretion 2078 beeline ft (633 m) and 19 alfresco breathtaking environments.[33][34]
In November 2010 the Sports Lab Powered by ESPN was added to the campus, a ability for analysis and development of new flat and limited technologies. The lab works in affiliation with the ESPN Innovation Lab amid at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World and is the alone sports technology lab to be complete at a Florida academy or university. Two months later, about 200 Abounding Sail Online administering and abutment aggregation advisers confused into the Gateway Center in City Orlando. Aswell in 2011, the university appear affairs to assemble an 86,000-square-foot (8,000 m2) educational architecture to abode 475 adroitness and staff, added blur and television soundstages and classrooms, and is appointed for achievement in Spring 2012.
Academics
Full Sail University is an ball media academy alms on-campus and online degrees, including 2 alum certificates, 2 accessory degrees, 25 bachelor's degrees, and 8 master's degrees. Bookish amount programs are primarily focused on audio, blur and media production, video bold design,animation and added studies accompanying to the media and ball industries. Over 70% of acceptance and graduates accept acclimated banking aid to awning some or all of their apprenticeship expenses. Acceptance accept to complete the Free Application for Federal Apprentice Aid (FAFSA) afore applying for apprentice loans through the university.
The college’s apprenticeship is accelerated, about completed in bisected the time of a acceptable four-year academy — associate's programs are 12 to 13 months long, bachelor's programs are 20 to 36 months long, and master's programs are 12 months long. Amount programs activate monthly. Courses are about four weeks in duration, with acceptance demography an boilerplate of two courses at a time.
According to The New York Times, Abounding Sail has abounding of the aforementioned problems as added institutions in the for-profit academy industry. They appear that some of the university's bookish programs accept top accommodation burdens and low graduation rates. The $81,000 video bold art affairs accelerating 38 percent of its students, who agitated a average debt amount of about $59,000 in federal and clandestine loans in 2008. The Times cited added Abounding Sail amount programs as accepting academy graduation rates, acquainted that the master's in ball business, "a yearlong affairs with a $36,245 tuition, accelerating 80 percent of its students, about 63 percent of them on time." According to Inside Academy Ed, "a afterpiece attending at the numbers reveals that graduation ante are not a above botheration at Abounding Sail: the all-embracing graduation amount is a adequately top 78 percent, according to federal data." In the aforementioned article, however, The New York Times acclaimed that Abounding Sail's own acceptance accept acquaint criticisms of the school, including some that alarm Abounding Sail a "scam" because of its top costs, low placement, and difficulties with acclaim transfer.
The academy was called FAPSC School/College of the Year (an accolade for which alone career colleges in Florida were eligible) by the Florida Affiliation of Postsecondary Schools and Colleges (FAPSC) in 2008 and 2011, 21st aeon best practices in ambit acquirements by the United States Ambit Acquirements Affiliation (USDLA) in 2011, and was the almsman of a 2011 New Media Consortium Center for Excellence award.
