As someone who very recently graduated, and looking at all the debt I'm in, and honestly the education isn't any better than one you can get online. To back it up: Year subscription to Gnomon: 400-500? Too lazy to look it up Year subscription to Digital Tutors: 300-400? Professional critique and networking via polycount:…
I did learn quite a bit at Full Sail, but if you're going in for concept art, I wouldn't recommend it. They're not going to teach you squat when it comes to 2D stuff. I graduated from Mainland back in 2002, so there were not as many learning opportunities as there are now for 3D. Now you have sites like Eat3d, 3D Motive,…