Full Sail University is a private, for-profit university in Winter Park, Florida. It was formerly a recording studio in Ohio named Full Sail Productions and Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts. Full Sail moved to Florida in 1980,running video and film production courses. It began offering online degrees in 2007. The school is partly owned by TA Associates, a private equity firm.

Full Sail is not regionally accredited, but is nationally accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges to award associate, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees in audio, design, computer animation and business.In November 2018 it had approximately 8,921 local students,as well as 10,250 students enrolled in online courses. In 2012, the tuition fee for a twenty-one-month course of study was approximately US$80,000.

Full Sail’s academic degree programs are primarily focused on audio, film and media production, video game design,animation and other studies related to the media and entertainment industries. Full Sail began offering coursework in creating augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) projects in 2016, housed in the campus’s Fabrication Lab.

Full Sail custom-built a learning management system (LMS) for use with their online courses; the LMS is Macintosh-based, and utilizes content created by an in-house curriculum development team in conjunction with campus-based instructors. In 2018, Full Sail partnered with Doghead Simulations to provide Rumii, a VR classroom app, to their undergraduates taking online classes.

Full Sail has a 55% overall graduation rate and a 21.1% student loan default rate, higher than the national student loan default rate of 11.3%.It is also listed on the Century Foundation’s website as a university which includes restrictive clauses in the enrollment contracts, which are intended to minimize the legal recourse available to students in the event of disputes