ya I have a friend that went there cost him 100k the music program sucks however, but the film stuff is amazing!
Well, there's 2 things wrong with your statement, but everything else you said is correct. 2 things that seems wrong to me are the price, and that fact you think the audio program sucks lol....So I guess the only thing you got right is your name?
Tuition is about 35,000. Maybe it's gone up a little. Cost of living is roughly $1000/month in Orlando. So that puts you at roughly $50,000 for the year.
As far as the music program sucking, I don't know where you're comin up with that. They have the best facilities in the world, the best environments for learning, and they scout some of the best professors/lab instructors in the business. Oh, and I believe it was Rolling Stone magazine that named it one of the top 5 audio schools in the world. But what do they know?
Anyways, from someone who's graduated first hand I will say this, the school is phenominal. You can get a lot out of it if you put the effort in. Having said that, I will also mention that, there are other schools that teach the same knowledge at half the price, and most studios don't really care which school you graduated from, as long as you got a recording arts degree from somewhere. The only difference is Full Sail is a better envorionment, better studios, more lab time, etc. Since they have so many studios, everyone gets their own workstations/studio for many of the labs. And in the big studios, they'll put you in a lab group of 6 students. Other schools you might have 20 students sharing the same studio.
If you have the money, I highly reccommend it. If not, try SAE. They have 5 locations in the US. New York, LA, Miami, Nashville, and Atlanta. The 5 biggest markets for music in the US, so you likely wont need to move anywhere once you graduate.
You can also try IAR (institute of audio research) in NYC. There is also a place in Arizona which is supposed to be very good, and a few in LA. At the end of the day, the school you choose isn't gonna be the deciding factor in which job you have, or how well you do with your career etc. That is all up to you. How hard you hustle, how well you do your job, where you live etc. Hopefully this has helped.
