The One Academy has long been recognised as a world-class creative education institution that transforms budding youth into professional industry players. The courses offered meet the criteria of international standards and are fully accredited by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA). In 2023, we ranked 11th in the World’s Top 50 Creative Schools across Digital Media, Art & Design majors by the Rookies Global School Rankings, a platform regarded as the world’s most respected rankings for educational institutions that propels the creative entertainment industry. This ranking represents the absolute best in creative education and excellence across all categories. The results were based on over 5,500 student participants from over 500 schools, whose projects were reviewed by 180 judges that completed 58,000 reviews.
Additionally, it has also ranked World's No. 3 Best Production Excellence in Immersive Media, World's No. 4 Best Product Design School, World’s No. 7 Best Concept Art & Illustration School, World’s No. 7 Best Motion Graphics School, and World’s No. 8 Best 2D Animation School. The One Academy was acknowledged as the World’s Top 10 School for Animation Training Program by Animation Career Review (ACR), and honoured as Creative School of the Year at the Kancil Awards in 2018, 2019 & 2022.
Staying true to its “Masters Train Masters” teaching philosophy for over 30 years, its team comprises of some of the creative industry’s top players and professionals who strive to impart knowledge as well as real-industry experience. In an effort to provide top-notch education options, the courses offered at The One Academy match the industry’s needs such as Advertising & Graphic Design, Digital Animation, Illustration, Film Visual Effects, Interior Architecture and Design, Digital Media Design, Paris Fashion Design & Pattern Making, Fine Arts, Computer Science and Game Design.
The One Academy also offers 3+0 UK bachelor’s degree programmes in partnership with one of the top-ranked universities in the UK, the University of Hertfordshire (UH), where young aspiring youths will be able to pursue an excellent UK design education locally and acquire uncompromised creative education. Our recent partnership with DigiPen USA and longstanding collaboration with ESMOD Paris to bring acclaimed programmes to the home front benefits youths greatly. In addition, The One Academy has also formed official affiliations with reputable design universities and colleges in the UK, Australia, the US and more, providing wider selections for our graduates to further their studies.
At The One Academy, we emphasise the importance of providing industry-based learning to our students to ensure that they are not only learning new information about the creative scene, but are able to put that knowledge to use in real life.