entertainment | media | arts | technology
3300 University Boulevard - Winter Park, Florida 32792 800.226.7625 | fullsail.edu WELCOME CENTER IfIf you’reyou’re seriousserious aboutabout youryour dream,dream, we’llwe’ll taketake youryour dreamdream seriously.seriously.
We empower and support individuals who are pursuing their dreams in creative industries – because it’s those people who make our world amazing. FULL SAIL STUDIOS We're Different
When we began, we set out to offer something different in the world of education – providing real-world environments for students to hone their crafts.
Today, Full Sail University has evolved to serve the many facets of entertainment, media, arts, and technology. We’re a community united by the drive to create and the courage to be different. Life is full of systems, rules, and frameworks.
But the people who make an impact aren’t concerned with categories, or whether or not they’re fitting in. Their passion to do something different is all they need to drive them – no matter how long it takes to succeed.
Whether it’s a song that moves people to tears or a life-changing piece of technology, great ideas don't just come out of a box. They come from people who aren’t afraid of being original.
Full Sail is a place for those people. Collaboration is a huge part of any creative industry, and it comes naturally here.
Being proudly passionate about something can make you feel like an anomaly. But when you come to Full Sail, you'll find yourself surrounded by people who get it.
So whether you’re working on a project with classmates, contributing your talents to a production team, or bouncing ideas around with your instructor, you’ll be building meaningful connections that will extend into your career. your people. FILM SOUNDSTAGE Learn it.
Every degree at Full Sail is agile, adaptable, and created from industry input.
Courses progress monthly, so when an important innovation comes along we can quickly integrate it into curriculum.
Our Program Advisory Committees are groups of active professionals who regularly work with us to keep our degrees relevant.
Our educators stay engaged with their industries and bring decades of experience to the courses they teach.
Career preparation is woven into your degree program from day one through career development modules.
Integrated portfolio modules provide ongoing opportunities to create real projects so you can demonstrate your talents to future employers. FILM SOUNDSTAGE Fast. Focused.
In nautical terms, “full sail” means you Since we began, we've offered programs at a faster are positioned in the best possible way pace than traditional schools, so that students to move forward at optimum speed. adapt to the 24/7 nature of their industries.
And that’s how we view education. A bachelor’s degree can take as few as 20 months instead of four years. This allows you to graduate It’s directing your passion at your career in a shorter period of time so you can start your goal in a focused, accelerated way. career earlier. Imagination
It's amazing how technology Project LaunchBox™ is a Full Sail program that provides students with powerful technology to help create projects. gives us new pathways to You'll receive a MacBook® Pro* along with a software learn and create. package customized to your degree program. All of your files, multimedia creations, We don’t just train you on how to use a certain device or and coursework are at your software program – you'll explore and discover creative fingertips 24 hours a day, tools to understand their full potential. Your industry's seven days a week. technological tools are integrated into your learning
spaces, projects, and curriculum. *Pricing and package specifications are subject to change. For certain game and technology programs, students receive an HP® Mobile Workstation and relevant software tools. “Full Sail’s dedication to innovative curricula is to be commended and is consistent with what today’s dynamic, technology-rich global economy demands from its professionals. Its progressive educational approach puts students and graduate success at the forefront of the institution’s mission.”
John Couch, Vice President of Education Technology Apple
Student Artwork by Jordan Powers YOUR CAMPUS IS everywhere
We designed our own online learning platform to suit the While Full Sail's campus is an way you learn and create. experience unlike any other, our Courses use collaboration tools online degree programs are proof so you can share and critique that you can earn a creative projects with your classmates. degree no matter where you are. Through live classes, you’ll be able to interact with your instructors and peers in the same way you would in a studio or classroom. LIVE VENUE
Full Sail is a hub of activity
Guest speakers. Conferences. Career expos. On-campus productions. Recruitment events. Full Sail provides constant opportunities to Credited on releases by artists such as Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Britney Spears, gain experience and learn from active pros. Full Sail graduate and Hall of Fame Inductee Jordan “DJ Swivel” Young talks about his career in music at an on-campus event. Awards REAL- Full Sail grads have been involved in projects that have gone on to receive major nods – including GRAMMY, Oscar, and Emmy awards. Full Sail invites students to watch these exciting CONNECTIONS moments and enjoy themselves at our on-campus award parties. Members of REVOLT TV, the music television Senior editor and compositor for EA Sports Joey Morelli network owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs, speak to sits down with students for a meet and greet during Bruce Swedien, known for his mixing and engineering on Michael Jackson’s Thriller, shares highlights of his career at a campus event. students on campus. Hall of Fame week.
Hall of Fame Week Recruitment Events The annual Hall of Fame celebration Sometimes the industry comes directly to us recognizes Full Sail graduates and their for their talent needs. Media companies who influence on more than three decades of have reached out to Full Sail for internships entertainment and media. The weeklong and employees include EA Tiburon, Lucasfilm, series of events includes everything from Nickelodeon Animation Studio, and industry Q&A panels to a career expo, to Blizzard Entertainment. student celebrations and live music.
Indie band Oh Honey performs an acoustic set in GRAMMY-winning recording engineer and Hall of Fame Full Sail's Audio Temple recording studio. member Phil Tan takes time with students in the studio. Alumni members take part in a Hall of Fame educational panel. Students line up for photos at the Oscar viewing party.
Career & Special Guests From game developers and movie Technology Expos makers to rockstar designers, our Representatives from AVID, Adobe, campus plays host to fascinating visitors Sennheiser, and more have participated in – giving you a firsthand look at real life in on-site career expos, giving students the the entertainment and media industry. opportunity to network and participate in on-site interviews. Orlando City Soccer Club Founder and President At our career expos, students have the opportunity to interact with dozens of The Hall of Fame induction ceremony annually recognizes six graduates for their visits campus. industry representatives for recruiting opportunities and product demonstrations. outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment, media, and the arts. REBL HQ REBL HQ is Full Sail University's collaboration with Maker Studios, the leader in short-form video and the largest influencer network worldwide. This alliance has led to unique opportunities for Full Sail students and graduates.
Since partnering with Full Sail University, WWE has awarded 25 scholarships to Full Sail students, for a total of $250,000.
WWE NXT Student The Full Sail campus regularly hosts Opportunities tapings of NXT programming, which airs weekly on the WWE Network. Students Full Sail's relationships in the world of gain real-world experience alongside entertainment and media have led to professional mentors in producing unique hands-on, experience-building the show. Proceeds from ticket sales opportunities for students and graduates. Launched in collaboration with Wargaming.net, Full Sail’s on-campus UX Lab has led to experiences for students to contribute to student scholarships. At the National Association of Broadcasters event, test products by major and independent game studios Full Sail students interning with Sony assisted with – using advanced technologies such as eye-tracking and product demos and presentations. facial recognition software.
3300+ CLIMBING The Florida Film Festival, offers workshops, product Full Sail’s relationship with Vans Warped Tour has led to student and graduate 3300 + Climbing is an artist development initiative launched by the demos, and countless networking opportunities – and A group of Full Sail students were given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work opportunities in production, recording, and communications roles. The tour’s first-ever Entertainment Business and Music Business departments. Students selected the event has regularly featured films by students, behind the scenes at WWE’s biggest event, WrestleMania. Student roles included lineup announcement event was hosted on campus, which featured performances from Austin-based trio January May as the first artist on its roster – providing graduates, and faculty members. camera operation and audio tech. tour artists and production assistance from students. everything from publicity efforts to music video production.
We're proud of our alumni and the ways they've influenced their industries. Here are just some of the artists, companies, Game of Avatar Apple Kendrick Lamar Destiny: The and projects that have seen the contributions of Full Sail's Justin Timberlake Thrones Rihanna Coldplay Jay Z more than 50,000 graduates. Taken King Harry Potter & The Disney Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 Mariah Carey Frozen Far Cry 4 Star Wars Universal The Walking Dead U2 Uncharted 4: Kanye West A Thief's End Saw II,III,& IV Madden NFL Lord of the Rings Katy Perry Pixar Jurassic World The Last of Us Grand Theft Auto Taylor Swift Call of Duty: ABC WWE Gravity Electronic Arts Interstellar Black Ops 3 Vans Warped Tour Madonna ESPN Halo 5: CNN Titanfall Beyoncé Lady Gaga Nike Michael Jackson Cirque du Soleil MTV Guardians +Years
35 Hall of Fame of shaping From Oscar and GRAMMY-winners, to animators, to creative directors and entrepreneurs, our Hall of Fame alumni have made significant entertainment contributions to their industries – as well as the Full Sail community. Every year, we celebrate their accomplishments through a weeklong & pop culture event complete with educational panels, entertainment, and more. ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS CENTER AUDIO TEMPLE
Programs for
Music & Recording Games Creative Minds Art & Design Film & Television Technology Media & Communications Business Sports PROGRAMS
Undergraduate
Audio Production
Music Production
Recording Arts
Show Production
The power of music and audio is something that can’t be expressed in words. It’s no wonder that it has such an influence on the world and connects so many people. Full Sail grads have worked on 18 GRAMMY-winning Album of the Year releases over the past 25 years. & Recording Recording
Creating music professionally is Studios Students have access to MUSIC something that millions of people dream professional analog and digital about. And those who succeed are there studios, as well as individual Pro because they’ve worked tirelessly and Tools postproduction workstations. have made themselves indispensable. Live Venues Aspiring composers learn more than writing – they diversify their talents so they can In our on-campus venues students are able to learn the understand different musical styles and study business essentials so they can market their many aspects of live production – from setting the stage work. Recording engineers get their hands on equipment and explore both the art and and working with artists, to controlling the light and science behind a good track. Show producers explore the elements that come together for sound, to breaking it all down at the end of the night. a riveting live experience, and they build those skills in real venues, with real performers.
Full Sail University’s programs are designed to prepare students for the competitive world of music by teaching highly specialized skills in real-world environments.
LIVE VENUE TREEHOUSE PERFORMANCE VENUE Worlds. Universes. Characters. Code. They come together to PROGRAMS make addictive experiences that Undergraduate can rival movies in their fandom Game Art and influence. Game Design
Game Development
Graduate
Game Design
Mobile Gaming
Top Undergraduate & Top Graduate schools to study Game Design for 2016 - Princeton Review, 2016
Full Sail was one of the first schools to enter the gaming arena. Our programs are engineered to emulate the development studio experience – from the GAMES software and tools, to the projects, collaboration, and workflow. UX LAB
Full Sail’s on-campus UX lab was developed in We know game degrees aren’t one-size-fits-all, so our programs take different collaboration with Wargaming.net – an industry paths depending on where you want to go – whether you’re aspiring to bring leader in mobile gaming. It provides a space environments to life or ready to dig into programming. for advanced game user experience testing, research, and development. BLACKMOOR STUDIOS ANIMATION STUDIO DIGITAL ARTS LAB PROGRAMS
Undergraduate
Computer Animation
Digital Arts & Design ART Graphic Design & Design Graduate Media Design
2015 Top Design Schools - Graphic Design USA, 2015
Art takes a wild array of forms, but it’s all Good design is something that can’t be manufactured – it can only come from united by the act of expression. And when it the minds of creative people. The goal of Full Sail’s art and design programs is to encourage artists to embrace their eye for the original and guide them to a melds with design, it brings the world ideas career path that’s fulfilling. and objects that enhance our day-to-day lives.
Student Art by Anthony Lyons TRADITIONAL ART LABS
DESIGN HUB Student Art by Kyle Lindsey
Art Studios Students need a solid foundation to help them develop the skills needed to create digital Students in our degree programs build traditional skills like drawing and art. Full Sail’s campus is home to several art sculpting while getting familiar with digital tools and software. With programs and design studios in which students can that emphasize real-world experience and portfolio creation, they’ll be armed study figure drawing, 2D animation, sculpting, with the skills to support the creative needs of clients and studios. photography, and more.
VIRTUAL SET Student Art by Daniela Sora FILM BACKLOT PROGRAMS Filmmakers have more creative control than
ever. Today's storytellers can now get their Undergraduate
content out to wide audiences and capture Digital Cinematography
cinema-quality video on palm-sized devices. Film
Graduate
Film Production
113 graduates worked on 24 Oscar-nominated projects - 87th Academy Awards
FILM Viewers are craving content from seven seconds to 17 episodes and everything in between – and they have plenty of options. In order to get their attention, it’s & Television essential to understand what goes into a great story and an effective production. FILM BACKLOT - AMSTERDAM When you study filmmaking at Full Sail, you’ll build your skill set in an independent studio environment – regardless if you’re learning online or on set. Your projects are real films that are produced, shared, critiqued, and pitched. This gives you content for a diverse portfolio to promote your skills, and the kind of experience that prepares you for the rapid pulse of the filmmaking world.
Film Backlot The Full Sail Studios Backlot allows students to shoot on location without leaving campus. This group of facilities gives students the creative freedom to set their film projects in locales ranging from Amsterdam to the French Quarter. PROGRAMS
Undergraduate
Cloud Technologies TECHNOLOGY Mobile Development Software Development
Simulation & Visualization
Web Design & Development
Recognized as an Innovator in Education by Apple - Apple, 2010
The impact of technology on our lives is so From the 24-hour news cycle to smart devices in our homes, deeply ingrained that it’s almost invisible. the tech world's influence and innovations continue to grow. Our programs are equipped to adapt to technology's ongoing And that’s all thanks to the creative minds evolution as it happens – through our fast-paced, project-based that develop and implement it. educational approach. The Fab Lab From parts to prototypes, students can bring projects to life in Full Sail’s Fabrication Lab – equipped with technology such as 3D printers and scanners, laser cutters, an injection molder, and tools for electronics development.
You’ll be crafting actualized projects in teams and environments that function like the real world – whether you’re coding an application, problem-solving through simulation, or establishing a cloud network. And because our programs are fast-paced, you’ll stay challenged and graduate earlier – which makes a big difference in such a dynamic industry. MEDIA CENTER What do short stories, blog posts, scripts, PROGRAMS advertising pitches, social media Undergraduate campaigns, and corporate presentations Creative Writing for Entertainment have in common? Media Communications
They all rely on the power of storytelling. Graduate
Creative Writing
Instructional Design & Technology
New Media Journalism
Public Relations
NMC Center for Excellence Award - New Media Consortium, 2011
Career options in media and communication are more diverse and widespread than ever. Brands, businesses, and consumers seek captivating content, but it needs to pop in such a noisy world. Today’s writers and storytellers require MEDIA specialized skills and the flexibility to shift from page to platform. & Communications Whether you’re passionate about fiction, journalism, or the power of persuasion, the courses in your degree will show you the ins and outs of the channels that help the world connect. You’ll build and broaden your talents through workshops and ongoing portfolio projects, and get specific insight on how to develop yourself as a communications professional. HD STUDIO PROGRAMS
Undergraduate
Entertainment Business
Internet Marketing
Music Business
Throughout every industry, Graduate businesses need talented Business Intelligence minds and original ideas. Entertainment Business Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Internet Marketing
One of the Top Music Business Schools with Buzz - The Hollywood Reporter, 2013
Business is driven by creative thinking – the ability to harness a good idea and turn it into something not just feasible but successful.
Our project-based degree programs give you real-world experience as you develop your own business plans and concepts. You'll connect with outside companies to learn firsthand from industry professionals and unique BUSINESS business scenarios. MEDIA CENTER
Being a part of the Full Sail community means being surrounded by industries throughout entertainment, media, the arts, and technology. So you can become familiar with a variety of business models, develop your niche, or build out an entrepreneurial idea, all within a thriving network of creative professionals.
ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS CENTER SOUNDSTAGE 1B PROGRAMS
Undergraduate
Sports Marketing & Media
SPORTS Graduate Entertainment Business - Sports Management Elective Track
The sports industry thrives on savvy business moves, branding, and real- time communication. Through Full Sail University’s sports-focused degrees, you’ll learn about topics unique to the industry – because our programs were designed by the industry.
From marketing strategies and content creation, to executive leadership and brand management, our hands-on programs can give you the knowledge and tools to pursue a future behind the scenes in sports. Career Expo
Academic Alumni Career Whether you’re learning online or on campus, Resources Network Development you’ll become part of a network of individuals who share your passion. It extends beyond Along your academic journey, you’ll have access to a Full Sail University graduates are located all From career guidance by advisors that are dedicated to specific graduation, through an active group of support team to assist with any challenges along the over the world. We hold networking events industries, to an outreach team that brings in companies for alumni, plus career development support that’s way, from academic advising to a dedicated student throughout the U.S. and beyond, and provide events and recruitment, our Career Development department support center. resources for alumni to stay in touch and share stays tuned-in to relevant trends and hiring needs. They’re here available throughout your professional life. professional insights. for you at every stage of your career, whether you’re an intern or an industry veteran. WALKWAY PARK CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS
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TREEHOUSE Enjoy musical performances, open mic sessions, and participate in club meetings in a café-style setting.
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CAMPUS & ONLINE Degree Programs
Music & Games Art & Design Film & Television Technology Media & Business Sports Recording Communications From programming, to art These degree programs Students learn the art From mobile applications to Students build real-world Students in these degrees Students work in and animation, to level design, combine art fundamentals of filmmaking while website design, these degrees These degrees are focused experience as they craft business become versed in emerging professional studios students in these programs with digital technology. becoming familiar with prepare students for the on the communication skills plans and learn specialized media and business trends and labs to create soundtracks, gain a firsthand look at the production technology. growing technology industry. and strategies needed to industry knowledge. within the world of sports. albums, and more. elements of game creation. reach today’s audiences.
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