Full Sail's Computer Animation program was designed to prepare you for a career in this exciting field. By expanding your abilities as an artist and learning the latest tools, applications, and design theory used to create 3D content for different media, you'll not only be able to take your art in new directions, but also put your skills to work realizing—and sometimes even improving—the creative vision of others.
Full Sail's Digital Arts & Design degree teaches creative artists how to improve their skills in this competitive and exciting field. But more importantly, this program is designed to help you develop your own eye for design, and translate that knowledge into a career creating these powerful images. The degree provides a complete design education, with industry-specific courses that will teach you how to communicate ideas and stories through different media, including video, print, motion graphics and the web.
If you're excited about the entertainment and media industry, and want to learn English alongside students who share your interests, Full Sail University's English as a Second Language program can teach you the communication skills you'll need to thrive as a student and as a professional. Learn English through creative media tools. Build your English while being creative.
This intensive six-month program teaches the fundamentals of the English language and prepares you for the TOEFL® (iBT) exam in a fun and interactive way. You'll explore reading comprehension, vocabulary, listening skills, and conversational English in Full Sail's creative environment -- and build your skills by creating media such as videos, podcasts, music, and more.
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In Full Sail's Film program, you'll work side by side with a unique group of people who share your passion to make great films. We believe there's no better way to learn than by doing; that's why your coursework will put you on-set, behind the camera, and in the editing suite. You'll get hands-on experience working each position on-set on a variety of different small-scale assignments, enabling you to get a feel for the role that each crew member plays in a production
Full Sail's Game School offers a Bachelor's and Master's degree program that will teach the art and technology of software development and design for games. The fundamentals of game creation are covered in this program, which teaches you how to create game engines, develop artificial intelligence, and integrate assets. Full Sail's Game School is home to a community of skilled and experienced instructors, and guided by an advisory board of video game industry professionals who ensure that the curriculum and tools used in each degree program are current and industry-relevant.
Innovative ideas are behind the brands and products that impact our lives the most, and many of those ideas thrive in the digital realm. If you have a vision for a creative or technology-based product or service, the Innovation & Entrepreneurship master's degree program can teach you what goes into bringing it to fruition within the changing global marketplace. Whether you're interested in launching a new venture or using your entrepreneurial vision within a larger organization, this program will teach you how to develop your ideas and organize your efforts.
Skilled communicators are needed within every industry – and especially within the world of entertainment and media. If you're ready to develop the skills that are valued in today's evolving media landscape, Full Sail University's online Media Communications bachelor's degree program can help you meet your educational goals. In this program, you'll learn core communication principles and writing techniques, while becoming familiar with digital media – from video and audio, to games and animation. You'll take on projects that relate to real-world communications issues and apply your skill set in a final project that speaks to your passion.
Whether you're interested in advancing your PR career or ready to enter the industry, Full Sail University's Public Relations master's degree program can show you what goes into being an effective PR professional in today's fast-moving media landscape. In this program, you'll explore what goes into planning, executing, and evaluating media strategies, and learn how to launch powerful dialogues with an organization's consumers and advocates through social media. You'll build a website and social presence from the ground up, fostering your personal brand and audience, while building experience through the program's project-based curriculum.
Since the career paths in sound and audio engineering aren't limited to just one thing, we don't believe your education should be, either. In our Recording Arts degree, you'll get the opportunity to experience the different facets of the industry, as you develop the skills you need to get your hands on the controls in one of our several state-of-the-art recording facilities.
The career opportunities in the world of live events extend beyond just the arena rock show; environments from corporate conventions to theme parks all utilize a combination of sound, lighting, and video equipment to put on a performance, event, or presentation. One of the best ways to learn how a show is run is to get your feet wet in a real-world environment; that's why Full Sail's Show Production degree program is designed to give you a hands-on education to prepare you to work in any of these live settings.
Every day there are new innovations that make the Internet even more integrated in our lives, and in Full Sail's Web Design & Development degree program, students learn the tools and technology needed to understand the language of web design and how to take that knowledge into a professional career creating a variety of interactive web content. Whatever drives your passion for web design, you'll be armed with the same tools being used by professional developers to increase the usefulness of the Internet for billions of users across the globe.
Creativity. Imagination. Original ideas. The entertainment and creative industries thrive on fresh original stories, design, music and art. But no matter where your passion lies, one of the keys to a sustainable career in the future will be the ability to think creatively and have the skills to bring your ideas to life in a meaningful way.
Our History
Located in Winter Park, Florida (just outside of Orlando), Full Sail University is an educational leader for those pursuing careers in the entertainment industry. Established in 1979, the school's on-campus and online programs provide students with an innovative and accelerated style of education geared toward career opportunities in recording, music, film, show production, video games, design, animation, entertainment business, Internet marketing, and sports management.
International Students
Full Sail University's student body of over 8,000 comes from 65 countries worldwide. Talented individuals from nations as diverse as Japan, India, Mexico, Belgium, Sweden, Iceland, Kenya, Canada, and South Korea have chosen Full Sail's unique educational environment as the place to launch their careers in the entertainment media industry.
Campus Degrees
Full Sail's unique curriculum emphasizes intensive, real-world education, using the latest industry equipment and production processes. Students develop their skills in world-class recording studios, spacious film soundstages, motion capture studio, and a professional performing arts hall, all housed in a 110+ studio, 190-acre multimedia complex. These production environments give students the experience and discipline they need to excel in their careers.
Graduate Success
With over 34,000 alumni, our graduates have worked in many different roles for some of the industry's top companies and contributed to countless notable projects:
If you're excited about the entertainment and media industry, and want to learn English alongside students who share your interests, Full Sail University's English as a Second Language program can teach you the communication skills you'll need to thrive as a student and as a professional.
This intensive six-month program teaches the fundamentals of the English language and prepares you for the TOEFL® (iBT) exam in a fun and interactive way. You'll explore reading comprehension, vocabulary, listening skills, and conversational English in Full Sail's creative environment -- and build your skills by creating media such as videos, podcasts, music, and more.
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Full Sail University’s student body of over 8,000 comes from 65 countries worldwide. Talented individuals from nations as diverse as Japan, India, Mexico, Belgium, Sweden, Iceland, Kenya, Canada, and South Korea have chosen Full Sail’s unique educational environment as the place to launch their careers in the entertainment media industry. Student’s Like Jeronimo Carbi. He is from Argentina and studied show production at Full Sail. He currently works as the Assistant Head of Lighting for Cirque du Soleil’s touring show, 'Drailon'. |
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For the last three decades, Full Sail graduates have been playing integral roles in that evolution; whether they've been in the boardroom or behind a mixing board, they've taken what they've learned here and used it to forge successful careers in the music business. Like Mike Exeter. He is a 1992 Recording Arts Graduate who has worked with legendary greats such as Black Sabath on their latest album Heaven and Hell. Mike said about his experience working with the band, “The greatest feeling is when you sit there in the studio, a big smile comes up on your face, the hairs come up on the back of your arms, and you’re like ‘Yeah, this is what it’s all about” |
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Coraline, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I, Robot, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Apollo 13, Interview with the Vampire
Peter Frampton, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Paul McCartney, Ricky Skaggs, The Police
Apple Nano, Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Diesel, VH1, Comedy Central, Discovery Channel, Nickelodeon, JetBlue, McDonald,s, Kodak
