Type Graduate School Website Official Site Founded 2004 Postgraduates 65 | Established 2004 Phone +1 407-235-3580 Director Ben Noel | |
Location Orlando, Florida, United States Address 500 Bentley St, Orlando, FL 32805, USA Motto "Enter. Active. Learning." Undergraduate tuition and fees Local tuition: 33,000 USD (2016), Domestic tuition: 57,500 USD (2016) Similar University of Central Florida C, UCF Center for Emerging, University of Central Florida, Valencia College, University of Central Florida C Profiles | ||
The Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) is a graduate school of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Central Florida located in Orlando, Florida, United States. The director of the school is Ben Noel, former vice president and chief operating officer of EA's Orlando-based Tiburon studio.
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- Programs
- Notable Achievements
- References
FIEA is a graduate video game development school offering an accredited master's degree in interactive entertainment. Areas of study include game design, art, programming and production. The Academy is located at UCF's Center For Emerging Media, which also houses other graduate and undergraduate programs in art, architecture, digital media, and film. FIEA was established in 2004 by UCF's School of Film and Digital Media and industry partners, and accepted its first class of students in Fall of 2005. The site of FIEA was formerly the downtown Expo Centre until late 2004 when the city of Orlando leased the building to the University. The building is now called the UCF Center For Emerging Media.
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Programs
FIEA follows a nonstandard educational philosophy which centers on the simulation of a professional video game development environment. The configuration of the building and course work is designed to reinforce this approach. Team-based work combining the efforts of students from the school's three primary disciplines of art, programming, and production is encouraged at all times. A capstone videogame creation project for each class of students forms the focus of the second and third semesters of work, comprising pre-production and production phases, respectively.
FIEA's first class of twelve students graduated in December 2006. It has now graduated more than 240 students who have been hired by more than 110 companies worldwide. Recent graduates have accepted jobs at Zynga, Sony, Electronic Arts, Google, YouTube, Bethesda, Bioware, Telltale Games, and many others.
Notable Achievements
Games developed at FIEA: