<p>I'm looking for a college for web design / development for bachelor's degree.</p>
<p>I researched on two universities - Franklin University and Full Sail University.</p>
<p>I read some of the threads about Full Sail but those are from 2005. I heard it changed a lot so I want to know how the school is like now.</p>
<p>Full Sail costs about $56,000 for the whole program and is nationally accredited, not regionally.
Franklin University offers the same program, costs about $62,000 for the whole program and is regionally accredited.</p>
<p>The general core courses are quite different because Full Sail stated that their core courses are taught in a way that students can apply the things they've learned from general core courses into web development and use them, and franklin university just teaches general core courses like most schools regularly do, like a high school.</p>
<p>From hearing what I've heard up until a week ago I was going to go to Full Sail, but recently I've been hearing bad things about Full Sail on how Full Sail is a trade school and is not regionally accredited.</p>
<p>I want to hear your opinion please help me decide! thanks in advance</p>
<p>I’m going to pay for it and some by my family members.
and they don’t offer web design/development at a cc… i’m going to go to a cc for general core courses like math and stuff and transfer that to the university so i don’t have to pay too much. </p>
National accreditation is crap. Even most community colleges won’t accept credit from a nationally accredited university, meaning that should you decide to transfer to a more reputable college, you’d have to start from square one in terms of credits. You want a college with regional accreditation unless it’s a very specialized vocational school with strong ties to the industry (that’s not the case with Full Sail). </p>
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Harvard, Stanford, and MIT also teach general core classes rather than ones which set students up for an overly specialized degree.</p>
<p>if I take general core courses from a community college and transfer that credits to a university of my choice, do I still have to take the general courses in either one of the schools i’ve listed?</p>
<p>“I’m going to pay for it and some by my family members.”</p>
<p>I wouldn’t trust this unless your parents have said for sure that they will pay all costs that you can’t pay for (at any school…preferably NOT Full Sail.) </p>
<p>How much can YOU pay for?</p>
<p>“they don’t offer web design/development at a cc…”</p>
<p>If your goal is to become a web-designer then you don’t need a degree from a pricey school in “web design.” Get your degree from a local state univ.</p>
<p>Full Sail University is a for-profit university. That means that the university’s primary concern is making money for its owners/shareholders. While theoretically for-profit doesn’t necessarily mean the university is bad, in practice for-profit institutions are generally not great choices for most students (especially the students most likely to attend them - poor and minority students).</p>
<p>With that said, I’ve heard mixed trending towards negative things about Full Sail. Some public media outlets (Rolling Stone, Inside Higher Ed) have praised its music industry programs. Other people, including former students, have criticized its graduation rates and the high average debt load of its students. One program (video game art) only graduated 14% of its students within 4 years and 38% of its students at all. But the program itself is only supposed to be 21 months.</p>
<p>They actually have the rates up for your program, too - web development. In the campus accelerated program (designed to be finished in 21 months), only 20% finished in 21 months. In their estimated debt for the program, they estimate that students will borrow $50,000 towards the $74,000 cost ($22,000 in federal loans and an additional $27,000 in private loans). It’s not clear how they expect students to borrow $22,000 in federal loans when you’re limited to $5,500 your first year and $6,500 your second.</p>
<p>Their “extended” web development program costs $80,000 and takes 36 months; they don’t have the data up for that because they’re either not required to or they don’t have the data points because fewer than 10 graduates have finished the program.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if you are a Florida resident or a resident of another state, but you don’t need a specialized web development degree from a for-profit university to get into web development. You can major in computer science, or major in another field with some heavy coding/comp sci experience and coursework. It’d probably be cheaper and less risky for you to attend a four-year public college in your home state (or a two-year community college and then transfer). If you have good grades and test scores, you might be competitive for some merit aid at private colleges, too.</p>
<p>the problem is that I want to take online courses. that’s why i chose either one of Full Sail or Franklin.
are there any local state universities that offer online courses?</p>
<p>Quite a few actually. Because of the distance component, many state universities charge in state tuition to all students, regardless of residency status. Arizona State is probably the most famous in this regard, although it’s relatively expensive (~$15,000/yr assuming 32 credits/yr). I believe there are other state Us which charge a lower rate for all students, although this isn’t an area I’ve seriously explored.</p>
<p>I live in New York City. I’m researching on web design degrees for online, only.
if not online, the university/college must be within new york city.</p>
<p>would it be easy to find state universities that offer online web design degree program?</p>
<p>Web design programs aren’t particularly important. I worked for a web based company in high school (had a few physical locations, but 95% of the business was online), and the founder took only cursory courses in web design to supplement his programming knowledge. </p>
<p>Depending on where in NYC you live, all of the non specialized CUNYs should offer at least a few courses on programming and maybe one or two web design classes. </p>
<p>I don’t know what “local” is for you. You selected schools base out of Florida and Ohio, so…</p>
<p>My advice would be to research your nearby state universities and community colleges. Many of them now offer lots of online learning (sometimes called “distance learning”) classes, though finding an entirely online undergraduate program may be a challenge. However, considering the field you want to go into, it should be a piece of cake! </p>
<p>does that mean I only have to go to a community college and take a few programming courses, and i’m good to go to get a job in web design/developing field?</p>
<p>I want to get more advanced and learn more at a university for web design.</p>
<p>I just looked into the Arizona State University as you told me and they have web development degrees. would that be enough?</p>
<p>This is not a field I’m familiar with. Your best bet is to try to research what it takes to get into the field (avoid sites which are operated by companies intended to sell you their product or college), and then go from there. </p>
<p>Web development is a mix of computer software and art.</p>
<p>Find a reputable regionally accredited university which has a decent CS major (which should be widely available) and a decent art department. For many state universities, you can get your start at a low cost community college and then transfer to complete a bachelor’s degree in CS.</p>