Full Sail University earned 65 ranking badges in the 2026 College Factual rankings: 28 in the top 1%, 19 in the top 5%, 14 in the top 10% and 4 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 2,047 in Most Popular for Visual & Performing Arts, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 65 (2026 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 28 / 19
Highest placement: #1 of 2,047, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 10
Placements this edition: 213
Badge cutoff: a top 15% placement in a ranking
Source: IPEDS 2025; College Scorecard July 2026; College Factual rankings 2026. Data as of: July 2026.
How Many Ranking Badges Has Full Sail University Earned?
Full Sail University holds 65 ranking badges across 10 fields of study, 47 of them in the top 5% or better; each badge is an award for placing in the top 15% of a ranking. It has no placements this edition in College Factual’s athletics rankings. Rankings on this page are updated as new federal data is released. The current ranking cycle is 2026 edition. The tier columns show the best placement reached in each ranking. See our data sources and methodologies. If you are an administrator interested in using our badge program to showcase your college’s strengths, please contact us.
Count by Award Level
Award Level
Badges
Top 1%
28
Top 5%
19
Top 10%
14
Top 15%
4
Total
65
What Is Full Sail University Known For?
Full Sail University is best known for Visual & Performing Arts: 14 of its 47 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Audiovisual Communications, Communications Technology and Computer Engineering.
How Does Full Sail University Rank for Online Students?
In College Factual’s 2026 online-program rankings, Full Sail University earned 18 badges across 17 online programs, 13 of them in the top 5% or better; its highest placement is #1 of 35 in Most Popular Online for Film, Video & Photographic Arts.
Full Sail University earned no veterans badge in the 2026 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s veterans rankings is #1,222 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans (top 25%).
Badges on this page come from rankings calculated from federal education data, 2026 edition. Full Sail University appears in 213 of the College Factual rankings covered on this page.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), serves as the core of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team