iAcademy expands its campus to next tech creative hub, Cebu City

January 21, 2023January 21, 2023 Migo V. 0 Comments

Top Makati tech and design school chooses Cebu as its first campus extension

Ribbon Cutting with (R-L) VP for Academic Affairs Mitch Andaya, COO Raquel Perez-Wong, & Cebu Councilor Don-Don Hontiveros

iACADEMY, a college in Makati known for its strong industry partnership that delivers 96% job placement rate and specialized programs such as Software Engineering, Game Development, Animation, and Multimedia Arts unveils its newest campus in IT Park, Cebu.

“We’ve started the inevitable. To expand Is the only way to bring non-traditional, specialized education closer to every aspiring tech and creative, and we couidn’t think of a better place for the first campus outside Makati but Cebu – It Is rapidly progressing and we join them in their pursuit to make it the next tech and creative hub,” said Raquel Perez-Wong, COO of iACADEMY.

“We have grown exponentially from the mere 1 floor in Ayala Ave building, to the 11 floor iACADEMY Plaza building, and now to our very own JACADEMY Nexus Campus that houses 2,500 students or as what we call them, Game Changers. This is the kind of success that we intend to bring to Cebu,” she adds.

iACADEMY Cebu campus is located at the 5th Floor of Filinvest Cebu Cyberzone Tower 2, Salinas Drive corner W. Geonzon St., Brgy. Apas, Lahug, Cebu City. It currently has 4 classrooms, a multi-purpose hall, a Cintiq lab, MMA lab, a Green Room, and student lounge. It has announced that the following will be its initial offering for Cebu Campus; Software Engineering, Game Development, Real Estate Management, Animation, and Multimedia Arts. They’re set to initially accept up to 200 enrollees this year on their tri-semester academic year.

“| am thrilled to share the programs that we have prepared for our Cebu campus and to be working with industry professionals who are willing to share their time and talent as professors to mold future Game Changers,” said Mitch Andaya, Vice President for Academic Affairs for Cebu Campus.

iACADEMY is known for its industry aligned curriculum and professors who are rockstars in their own chosen fields. Their programs emphasize more on exposure to actual industry practice rather than theoritical classroom discussion. Some of their notable alumni are Mikee Sevilla, Joshua Villena, Emman Rifioza. Their students are always engaged in projects that contribute solution and positive change – they developed the first physical distancing app called Maze, the Experience Philippines App of the Department of Tourism that has the Augmented Reality feature, OCDrone- a solar powered water waste collecting tool control simply with a mobile phone, to name few.