12 Facts About SAE Institute

SAE Institute is a private for-profit college with campuses and facilities, including licensed franchise operations, in 50 cities in 20 countries.

SAE Institute was established by Tom Misner in 1976 in Sydney, converting a small advertising studio into a classroom.

SAE Institute began expanding into Asia in the 1990s, opening locations in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

In 1999, SAE Institute began opening facilities in the United States, and over the following decade opened locations in Nashville, Miami, San Francisco, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

In 2000, SAE Institute began licensing franchise schools in India, opening four that year.

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In 2010, the SAE Institute was sold to Navitas, a publicly traded educational services company.

SAE Institute Online, formerly SAE Institute Graduate college, was an unaccredited, distance learning, proprietary, for-profit European school that offered post graduate courses from master's degrees to PhDs in Creative Media Industries, as well as several other professional skills courses .

SAE Institute is accredited in Australia and South Africa to award its own Bachelor and Masters degrees and awards degrees in Europe and at Licensed campuses via its partnerships with Middlesex University.

Since 2013, SAE Germany offers a Master of Arts in Professional Media Creation through a partnership with the Institut fur Computermusik und Elektronische Medien of Folkwang University of the Arts.

SAE Institute is a validated partner of Middlesex University in London.

SAE Institute has undergone a review for educational oversight by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education .

SAE Institute became an associate member of GuildHE in July 2013, one of the two recognised representative bodies for higher education in the UK.