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Complaint Review: Full Sail University - winter park Florida
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Full Sail University Will Not Find Work After Attending This School winter park Florida
Full Sail University is not a good school to attend if you plan to find employment once you graduate. My 90 classmates that I keep in contact with have not landed employment for the use of their degrees obtained from Full Sail, neither have Full Sail career specialist have assisted any of my classmates in obtaining employment. $40K down the drain. Find another university.
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Troy
North Hollywood,California,
USA
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#2Consumer Comment
Fri, April 03, 2015
Sharing my very different experience, as I'm bummed to hear about what this person is experiencing and attempting to pin on Full Sail rather than the real culprit: the competitive nature of the media industry.
My own class at Full Sail graduated an impressive percentage of people who are still working in the industry 19 years later. While I don't keep up with the entire class (as I doubt any of us do), I can say that we graduated one of the most successful producers of sound effects in the world (Ric Viers), the founder of an animation company (Kip Gire), a television producer with hundreds of hours of content behind him (Troy DeVolld), and many others who are working in the fields they prepared for at Full Sail. I've had lunch with a couple of other grads from my classes over the years, one of whom was working for CNN and another at ESPN at the times I met up with them.
I don't want to diminish how difficult it must be to graduate from anywhere, probably in debt to some degree, and then not find work -- but most of the folks I know from Full Sail who've gained a real foothold in their corners of the media universe really didn't hit stride for a good five years or more after graduation. There's a lot of banging around and interning and networking that has to happen to jump-start a career, and I certainly worked my share of cheap shows and $450/week support gigs before things took off for me, starting with four years of clerical support at a media company on the East Coast while I saved money to move to California.
