Asbury University

What do you look for in a media school?

Asbury University—with a commitment to academic excellence and spiritual vitality—encourages its students to study, worship, and serve together on a campus located 20 minutes southwest of Lexington in Wilmore, Kentucky. Primarily a four-year, multidenominational institution, the University has been at the heart of spiritual movements throughout its history.  The University provides many opportunities for student involvement both on and off campus. Internships, exchange programs, missions, and community service opportunities are available and are part of the curriculum in nearly every major.
 
What do you look for in a media school?
Asbury’s unique Media program is designed within a liberal arts context, with industry-successful faculty who are committed to students. Students receive unparalleled opportunities to apply these theories and skills to real-life situations using state-of-the-art equipment. We believe students should be given a broad foundation on which to build their careers. Students are challenged academically and prepared to be life-long learners.
 
Media program areas
• Audio Production
• Film Production
• Media Performance
• Multimedia
• Production Design
• Television & Video Production
 
Projects and classes
We believe individual video projects offer students the unique opportunity to learn all the aspects of production. This means we limit class sizes and provide more equipment. We also require students to work in groups to develop the ability to work as part of a team. Small classes allow for more one-on-one contact with faculty and staff. With production classes generally limited to 12–18 students, some unique media classes you may take are:
• Feature Film Production
• Remote Production
• Steadicam Certification
• Underwater Cinematography

Exciting media projects
Asbury’s media program has high-end projects and provides students opportunities to get paid, increase their skills, and build their résumés. Current and recent projects include:
• Olympics: Since the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia, Asbury is the only US school to send students to be paid workers for world broadcasters at every Olympics, including the most recent 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
• NASA: Asbury students were paid to document the creation of a next-generation Mars probe as a joint project with the University of Kentucky. The Smithsonian displayed one of these documentaries.
• US Department of Justice: Asbury has received over $250,000 in grants to create different projects, which are being used nationally by law enforcement officials.
• Film productions: Asbury has been involved in film projects with major studios including Disney, Walden Media, and many others.
• Film projects: Asbury students shoot over 50 short films a year.
 
Hands-on learning and internship opportunities
• Students have visited over 50 countries to produce ministry programs for radio, television, and the internet.
• Asbury takes a group of students to the Sundance Film Festival every other year.
• Over 800 Asbury students have freelanced for various networks—including ABC, NBC, ESPN, Fox, and the Speed Channel—and have traveled all over the US and around the world.
• Air-90, Asbury’s radio station, is student run and broadcasts via the web.
• WASB-TV provides local television news programs.
• Media students produce a feature film every other summer as part of a production course.
• Students have the opportunity to digitally record and produce recordings for musicians.
 
Media equipment
We believe communicating ideas is vital for the world and having the best equipment to do so is essential. Asbury’s media programs provide industry-standard equipment. Students also have the chance to work with some experimental systems that may become the standard in the future. Systems include editing software, cameras, Steadicams, jibs and dollies, and a 40-foot HD television production trailer.