SAE University College Australia Opiniones 18

I'm at the beggining of my time with SAE, but everyone that i've spoken to has been so lovely and welcoming, from my course advisors to my lecturers and the people in my classes, the support I've recieved has been amazing and even though I've felt stressed and unsure of myself at times their support has me confident I'll do fine, thankyou SAE team!

My experience at SAE has been positive so far. Communication has been clear and responsive, and my transition into study has been smooth. The coursework is already helping me to think more critically, which I really value. I also appreciate the balance between theory and practical application. The learning environment feels welcoming and supportive.

Overall, my experience to date has been encouraging, and I feel that SAE provides a solid foundation for continued academic and professional growth.

I made the right decision to follow through on studying at SAE. I'm actually enjoying education for once.

The course has NO substance at all and is a complete waste of a LOT of money. $6500 for a subject with only 3 lectures which consisted of reading over a small amount of material.
Its a money grab - seriously save yourself the complete waste of time and money. Very unprofessional.

SAE has been an incredible place to study. From day one, they’ve supported me, helped me grow, and opened doors I never imagined. The opportunities, resources, and real-world experiences they provide are truly unmatched. I couldn’t have chosen a better place to start my career. Highly recommend. Everyone there from mentors, marketing team and students are amazing too.

The postgraduate course provides incredible flexibility with plenty of space for self-directed pacing and exploration. Staff have always been supportive of creative work and ideas. Being able to study remotely has been beneficial in allowing me to continue to engage in classes while touring.

Overall a positive experience- mainly due to the fostering of collaboration and working alongside other students.

Often times there hurdles around renting, using or operating equipment as it sometimes needed servicing, was broken or unavailable.
The course itself is much more focused towards directors or producers, having more specialised pathways would (for me) been a much more engaging experience and allowed for individuals to focus on the aspect of filmmaking they are interested in.
There needs to be a much greater focus and training on production design and props, this is an aspect lacking for a film and filmmaking course.

I understand the need for checks and balances to ensure everyone gets fair access to equipment and facilities but I feel, especially as of recently it can be quite limiting or difficult to just book spaces or equipment when something comes up, making the ability to be flexible or address issues on productions that bit slower. Specifically limits to equipment booking or gaining approval to film or book spaces.

There is a overall creative and creativity empowering environment, aided by the school and lecturers as well, I don’t doubt you’d be able to create some amazing projects and meet great people and filmmakers along the way.

I got excluded after reporting sexual assault and harassment and bullying. Every trimester, I was harassed sexually or bullied. I was advised against reporting and seeing the counsellor by students that have been given working roles at the uni, I hoped I could trust them but they used that position to sexually harass me further. I didn’t get much support from the uni once I finally reported it and 2 of the students who sexually harassed and molested me are still in roles of power

The Location of the school is easy to access and has a beautiful view since its near the river bank. The lecturers are really supportive and will help you succeed in your studies and help you get a job in the future.

I've had a mostly brilliant experience studying Games at SAE in Perth. Staff are friendly, and the campus is very active with various social programs. Truth be told, the Games course has gone through a LOT of changes over the last couple of years, which has complicated things (especially for full-timers), but I believe students and lecturers have adapted very well. Speaking of lecturers, all of mine have been very knowledgeable and passionate about games, all of them being masters of their craft.

I would like to start of with the positives, the campus, people and lecturers are amazing. The lecturers really do put a lot of care and attention into individuals, and the campus as a whole is a safe space. Regardless it's a one size fits all course, regardless of whether you walked in a complete beginner, or in my case, with a golden record and 4 years of experience. I wish we had options that allowed us to choose what education we wanted to receive, especially when each class adds up on our fee help. I wouldve done another year if I could've done the 3rd year subjects, but having to sit through the basics of EQ and comp for a trimester, and the entrepreneur classes first year and second year. Not only should the education be about learning to use the tools, but to achieve what the industry expects of us currently. I wasn't taught how to achieve different vocal tones through mic usage, quick and efficient workflow when recording. Idk about you, but Ive never worked in a situation where we record the entire songs lead vocal 4 times in its entirety and comp after, industry expects us to comp as we record, as well as either recording in or using outboard gear effectively to achieve an intentional polished sound. Learning how to setup a studio, setup a patch bay, put speaker calibration into practice, deliverables??? How many mixes to deliver, how to create the email and client experience. The different formats and types of masters that labels require. If I had the option at my own expense to come in and sit through the third year subjects, I would, in the end, we are paying for the education we want, I dont regret my first year, but it definitely wasnt what I was looking for, and looking at their dropout rate, I guarantee a large majority of the people who dropped felt like they were not learning the skills they require, and in return weren't stimulated enough to continue.

Studying the Bachelor of Game Development at SAE Brisbane was honestly a turning point for me. I went in with a passion for games but not much technical knowledge, and the course helped bridge that gap. It covered everything from game design and coding to production and working in teams, all with a strong focus on real, hands-on experience. Being able to work on projects from the start made a huge difference, it really helped me build confidence and understand how games come together.

One of the things I appreciated most was the support from the lecturers. They weren't just there to teach, they genuinely wanted to see us grow. Whether I was stuck on a programming issue or trying to figure out how to improve a game mechanic, they were always willing to offer guidance. Their advice helped me sharpen my skills, especially when it came to writing cleaner code and thinking more critically about game design decisions.

That said, there were a few areas that could be improved. During my time at the Brisbane campus, the course was largely centered around the Unity engine. While Unity is a solid foundation, having more exposure to other engines like Unreal would have added valuable breadth. The campus computers were also in the middle of being upgraded, which sometimes caused issues when moving from room to room. Additionally, there were great cross-discipline moments, like working with audio students, but was mostly limited to a specific trimester. Including more consistent collaboration across disciplines throughout the course would have helped create a better-rounded development experience and assist students during the final project.

By the time I finished the course, I felt prepared to work in the industry and develop my own work. I left with a solid foundation, a bunch of projects under my belt, and a much clearer idea of the kind of developer I wanted to be. If you're serious about getting into game development and want to learn in a creative, practical environment, I’d definitely recommend SAE Brisbane.

Great facility and teachers. I Learned so much and they were also flexible in regard to what and when I could study.

During my time studying at SAE, I participated in a wide range of courses that explored not just my key interests in game development, but also insights and inspiration about creative arts. I participated in the game development course to learn some of the basics of making video games, but also experimented in VR and AR game development as well. Outside this, the creative arts studies helped to develop new sources of inspiration and critical thinking skills that I can apply to media studies. I enjoyed my time studying here and felt like I was on the path to becoming a well-rounded, academic game developer!

Great lecturers who lead engaging and practical workshops.

As a whole, this institution lacks a lot and does seem to unfortunately be going in the wrong direction. This review comes from my experience studying and working at the Brisbane campus.

Equipment is not kept up-to-date and in good repair; teachers form cliques I witnessed them mocking students work (more on that below); admin faculty lack basic skills required to do many of their tasks; and upper management care so little about these that they will not act upon complaints or concerns.

While volunteering at an open day to introduce prospective students to the campus, I was sitting with two senior teachers who were openly mocking the work of some of their existing students.

One (different) senior lecturer told a small cohort of students that he could have people blacklisted from the film industry so that they will not be able to get jobs once they graduate. He implied he's done this before, and used it as a warning to the class to show him respect.

This same teacher used his platform during an early lecture to criticise the #MeToo movement and what it has done to film industry figures.

Ultimately SAE has not kept up with the changing industries it teaches, the requirements for creating job-ready graduates, or wider society. By employing and empowering people who seem to revel in their "old-school Hollywood" ideas of what the Film & TV industry is, it's reinforcing the toxic and dangerous mindsets that have come in generations previous.

Aside from these soft-skill shortcomings, there is also still a concerning lack of experience and actual technical ability from many teaching staff members. In many instances, teachers demonstrated no more knowledge than a devices instructional manual could provide.

I attended from 2022-2024. Overall it was a good experience, but there were so many things that just made me and a few of my peers feel like we wasted money.

One being that the campus you attend will affect your education. Some campuses have better equipment than others and better facilities than others. I went to the Byron Bay campus doing film.
Our green screen room got taken away from us half way through our degree, meaning we could no longer use a proper green screen room. Other campuses got to do set building and recording on a real built set, but we never got that.

Some of our theory lecturers clearly did not understand some of our project requirements and would give us conflicting feedback on our projects, and in one class my friend, despite talking to one of the online library helpers multiple times and going through each project requirement point by point together to make sure the project followed each one, was told the project was done wrong and given a bad mark.

The lecturers would often leave you to your own devices and class time often felt wasted in the later courses of your degree where lecturers would cut lecture time in half and go home early.
We also had a lecturer who agreed to show up on set to help us with something and then didn't even come to the set and didn't even tell us that they wouldn't be showing up until the last minute when we were all waiting around for them.

The person in charge of work experience seemed to not vet a lot of the work that came to them very much, as a few of my peers (one of whom had only just turned 18 the month prior) experienced some work experience that made them extremely uncomfortable (involving a comedy show with a naked man that they were not told about until they got there and a terrible working environment that was not suitable for filming in). After mentioning it to her she didn't do or say much about it or apologize for it. They lost trust in the person providing the work experience opportunities. I believe this person has since stopped working at SAE though.

On the other hand, a lot of the lecturers were lovely and the tech team was also extremely helpful. You could call on them whenever you needed to and they would be so helpful and lovely to talk to and often went the extra mile for you.

The Byron Bay campus is beautiful and was always clean and kept nicely, and with it being so close to Byron Bay you could easily go out for a walk around town during breaks.

The food on campus is also really good, and I think after talking to students from other campuses seems to be the only campus with a cafe in it? I may be wrong though.

We had one lecturer who really worked hard for us and that meant the world to us. He took a lot of time to talk to you personally about what he thought you were doing well and what you could improve on and he would take extra time to sit down and review your film with you and give you tips and important lessons he learnt in the field that were invaluable.

However it often felt like the lecturers were teaching us in spite of the projects and outlines. Often the project outlines were written terribly and the lecturer would have to contact SAE directly to get them to correct or re-define things and there was often a lot of confusion about what we were even supposed to be doing for each project. Often our lecturers would make the rules and guides themselves for each project due to this, and I feel it led to outcomes were each campus's final deliverables would be completely different from each other in terms of scope and what they were allowed to do.

We did get some pretty good work experience, shooting at festivals and other various big-name events.

All of the film lecturers were lovely and I learned a lot from them, but there were so many things like that that made me and my peers feel we had wasted money on our degrees and we have had many disappointed discussions together about our time there since graduating.
It was worth going to SAE for the work experience, meeting new people and friends and getting real-time feedback on my work from experienced professionals, but that's about it.

I highly recommend studying at SAE Sydney for anyone looking to pursue a career in film production. I completed my Bachelor of Film Production from 2019 to 2020, and the experience laid a strong foundation for my professional journey. I am now working as a Producer in the Promos Department at Channel 9, where I create trailers for upcoming shows.

During my time at SAE, I had the opportunity to work hands-on with industry-standard camera and film equipment, which greatly boosted my confidence and technical skills. Many of the lecturers were active professionals in the industry, offering invaluable insight into current practices, expectations, and how to prepare for the job market.

One of the most valuable aspects of the SAE experience is the community. The campus is a vibrant hub for creatives, providing countless opportunities for collaboration and networking with like-minded individuals. It’s a place where students support and inspire each other, often leading to long-term professional connections—I'm even currently working alongside a colleague who graduated just after me.

SAE’s approach to teaching is comprehensive and inclusive. Whether you're starting with a wealth of experience or beginning from scratch, the curriculum builds your knowledge from the ground up, and there's recognition for prior learning. The campus facilities are also available for both school and personal projects, including access to production gear—an incredible resource for any aspiring filmmaker.

That said, success at SAE—and beyond—depends heavily on your attitude and work ethic. It's important to stay proactive, positive, and dedicated. While SAE provides the tools and guidance, the competitive nature of the industry means that landing a job after graduation requires determination, persistence, and a willingness to go the extra mile.

SAE Sydney gave me the skills, knowledge, and confidence to thrive in a professional setting, and I’m grateful for the opportunities it helped me unlock.