Full Sail Real World Education

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.

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