Growing up in Orlando, I saw this company go from a operating out of a normal office, to taking over the entire office park and surrounding buildings. It’s no secret Fullsail “University” has grown by leaps and bounds. The school itself is only accredited by the ACCAST, which grants accreditation to vocational schools. Colleges and universities do not recognize the ACCAST and therefore any credit hours earned WILL NOT transfer to a traditional 4-year degree program.

I have blocked Fullsail’s advertisements from my Adsense account and I will tell you why. Over the last few years I have learned more and more about this company. I will refer to it as a company for the rest of this post because the fact it is called a University is outrageous. In my opinion, the only thing that qualifies it as a “University” is the price (rumored to be 40k-55k total). In the last few years, I have meet and/or interacted with many people who attended Fullsail. The majority of whom I met never graduated from the place. Of the ones who did, most of them did not move on to be successful movie producers, recording artists, or anything close. In fact, most of them were given jobs as “recruiters” to work for the company. Sounds like a pyramid scheme to me…

Not to stereotype (I will admit when I do) but it seems that a lot of students I have seen had 2 things in common. The first is being “Gothic.” Fullsail had taken over an old strip mall close to an Ale House where I was eating. While leaving, I drove past the strip mall and must have see 50+ “students” all dressed in black. Some had black lipstick (both girls and guys ), colored hair, and a lot of piercing. The second thing they have in common is poor driving skills. Somehow, when I drive around that area, most of the people who are speeding, weaving through traffic, and cutting people off all have a Fullsail sticker on the back of their car.

So what makes this place so renowned? I have a hard time believing this place is that great considering the current and former attendees. Another thing that caught my attention was the fact Failsail themselves have control of fullsailsucks.com. I briefly looked into this and it seems that someone started the website and Fullsail sued them, therefore gaining control of the domain name. Not sure if that is true or not, but a Google search reveals many students who have come forward and shared their story. There have been several other websites exploiting Fullsail. Most of them have been shutdown, but there is a forum that requires registration to view it. While reading the reviews, most said it wasn’t what they expected. They didn’t get everything that was promised to them, and in the end they felt taken.

I don’t know the real story about this place… I have never attended Fullsail and never will. I can say that the reviews I read which portray negatively seem to outweigh the positive ones. I cannot help but think Fullsail is painting a Picasso for the incoming students, then handing them a Xerox when they graduate.