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Overview
Woodbury University is a private university in Burbank, California, adjacent to the entertainment industry's studio district. It is built around design and business fields taught in a hands-on, studio-based culture rather than a traditional lecture-heavy liberal-arts model.
Academics
Architecture is Woodbury's signature program and its accredited status is a major draw, complemented by interior design, graphic design, game design, and business, all taught in working studios with critique-based instruction. Business programs share some of that applied, project-based approach.
Campus & student life
The Burbank location puts students close to major film, television, and animation studios, which shapes both internship access and the practical, industry-facing tone of the design programs specifically. Campus life is smaller-scale, with studio culture — long hours in dedicated project space — more central to student identity than a conventional residential social calendar.
Getting in
Design-program applicants typically submit a portfolio alongside standard materials, weighted heavily in review, following the norm for architecture and design schools.
After graduation
Woodbury's architecture and design graduates place into Los Angeles-area firms and into entertainment-industry design and art-department roles, leveraging the school's Burbank location directly.
Worth knowing
The location next to the studio district is a real, working advantage for design and media-adjacent students specifically — internship proximity that a design program in a less industry-dense city cannot match.
Admissions
Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)
Applying
woodbury.edu ↗High school coursework
RequiredNo specific required high school course units published; minimum weighted GPA of 2.50 required (11th-grade transcript), test-optional
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