Full Sail Real World Education
Full Sail Real World Education is a college located a few miles from downtown Orlando, Florida. It caters to the electronic 'age' with its degree programs in Computer Animation, Digital Media, Entertainment Business, Film, Game Design & Development, Recording Arts, and Show Production & Touring. Full Sail awards associate's and bachelor's degrees after 12 to 21 months of an accelerated schedule.
Full Sail is known for its intensive schedule that runs 24 hours a day. Labs and lectures are each four hours long, starting at 1, 5, and 9 AM or PM. Classes work on a monthly basis. Each month, one class graduates and another one enters the school. Students take one or two classes a month and typically spend 20–40 hours or more per week at the school. All the students that pass the classes of the current month move on to the next month's classes and those that fail a class must retake it as a prerequisite to continue. As of February 2004, there are about 4000 students attending Full Sail.
Full Sail was founded in 1979 by Jon Phelps as a recording studio workshop. Garry Jones, the school's current president, was the first employee hired. Full Sail first expanded its curriculum by adding a film program; it further added several more degree programs in the late 1990s. The college started awarding bachelor's degrees for game design/development and entertainment business in 2004. Full Sail also send out a regularly released magazine called Propeller, sent to students, faculty, and people who have toured the school.