I know very little about Full Sail's programming degrees, but I have a very good friend who graduated salutatorian from one of their film programs a couple of y

I know very little about Full Sail's programming degrees, but I have a very good friend who graduated salutatorian from one of their film programs a couple of years ago. He directed shorts, music videos, etc. so he has something of a portfolio, yet Full Sail wasn't able to offer him any help once he graduated and stopped paying tuition. He lives in NYC, and yet according to him they weren't even able to set him up with informational interviews with contacts in the film industry. Some of that is the economy (he graduated in '09 when nobody was hiring), but he didn't even get any contact information for alumni once he got out. All he got was a second bachelor's degree and the debt to go with it. He believes, and I agree with him, that Full Sail's industry contacts are limited because of their location in Orlando, and that since they are aggressively "for profit", their incentives to fix that are limited. They cater primarily to young people who don't know any better and who won't ask too many probing ?'s about job placement, etc. I don't see these problems as unique to film. As I said, I know nothing of their programming offerings, but from what I've seen of their film offerings, I think your son should pass on Full Sail. I'd highly recommend that you tell your son to enroll somewhere accredited get a real CS degree. A CS degree offers at least a minimal credential towards other work in the field. A game programming degree isn't going to get you very far at all outside of game programming.