The SAE Institute (SAE, formerly the School of Audio Engineering and the SAE Technology College) is a
private
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Music
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* Private (band), a Denmark-based band
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for-profit college
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with campuses and facilities, including licensed
franchise operations, in 50 cities in 20 countries. It was founded in 1976 in
Sydney
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by Tom Misner. It offers courses in
audio engineering
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Sound
* Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound
*Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum
* Digital audio, representation of sou ...
, 3D animation,
multimedia,
graphic design
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,
game design, digital filmmaking, and music production.
History
SAE was established by Tom Misner in 1976 in Sydney, converting a small advertising studio into a classroom. Over the next six years, campuses in
Melbourne,
Brisbane,
Adelaide and
Perth were established. In the mid-1980s, SAE began opening colleges outside of Australia, including locations in London,
Munich, Frankfurt,
Vienna, Berlin,
Auckland, and
Glasgow. In the 1990s, SAE opened a European head office in
Amsterdam, and locations were opened in Paris, Hamburg,
Zürich,
Hobart
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,
Cologne, Stockholm, and
Milan. SAE also began expanding into Asia in the 1990s, opening locations in Singapore and
Kuala Lumpur. In the late 1990s, SAE formed the SAE Entertainment Company and launched full university degree programs with the co-operation of
Southern Cross University and
Middlesex University
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. In 1999, SAE began opening facilities in the United States, and over the following decade opened locations in
Nashville
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, Miami, San Francisco,
Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Chicago. In 2000, SAE began licensing
franchise schools in
India, opening four that year. In 2000s, locations were opened in
Liverpool, Madrid,
Brussels,
Bangkok, Leipzig,
Barcelona,
Dubai,
Amman
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,
Cape Town,
Istanbul, and
Serbia. Licence agreements were signed for new schools in Qatar, Bogotá Colombia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The Dubai branch offers degree certification accredited by Middlesex University. In the 2000s SAE also acquired QANTM, an Australian production, media and training company, and relocated its head office to
Littlemore Park,
Oxford and its headquarters to
Byron Bay, Australia.
In 2010, the SAE Institute was sold to
Navitas, a publicly traded educational services company. Over the next few years, new locations were opened in
Romania,
Jakarta
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, and
Moskhato
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. Navitas began taking over the US campuses in 2011, and laid off over 40 US employees in 2014.
SAE Online
SAE Online, formerly SAE Graduate college, was an
unaccredited
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,
distance learning,