2022

SY ‘21 - ‘22

In school year 2021-22, iACADEMY launched its SHS Homeschool Program - Design for Remote, Individualized, and Versatile Education (DRIVE). Programs offered include animation, multi-media arts, software development and accounting, business and management. DRIVE caters to students with unique learning styles and preferences and provides an elevated online and self-paced learning experience. It is the offspring of learnings and insights gained from the shift to online learning.

JULY 2022

iACADEMY was again recognized by the Global Business Review Magazine based in UAE as the Best New School for Music Production and Technology for its innovative approach to education and curriculum integration of industry practices in music production and sound design in partnership with Dolby and Avid. 

JULY 2022

iACADEMY was announced Leading Arts and Design Education Provider in the Philippines, and Most Innovative Education Provider in the Philippines for 2022, having participated in various international competitions such as the Negative Space Comic Book Writing Competition in New York, USA, and the Python Coding Competition hosted by Raffles University in India. 

JUNE 2022

iACADEMY was officially renewed as a Toon Boom Center of Excellence (COE). Toon Boom Animation is the leading supplier of animation software and storyboard software for animation studios and media publishers. 

APRIL 2022

iACADEMY landed among the top 10 schools with the highest number of passers in the Real Estate Licensure Exam conducted by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), producing 30 licensed real estate brokers.

MARCH 2022

iACADEMY was awarded Best Design School, Best School for Music Production, Design, and Technology, Best Education Provider, and Most Innovative Education Provider by the international publication Global Business Review Magazine 2022 in UAE.

MARCH 2022

iACADEMY music professor Gerard Paul Elviña from the Music Production and Sound Design program headlined the industry news as the first Filipino and second Asian to join the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Standards Committee, the prestigious organization responsible for conducting the AES Standards Program. The group develops and publishes a number of technical standards, information documents, and technical reports within the field of professional audio technology.

2021

DECEMBER 2021

World Business Outlook awarded iACADEMY Most Innovative Education Provider in the Philippines and Leading Computing, Business and Liberal Arts, and Design Education Provider in the Philippines. The school is recognized for its efforts to hone globally competitive students through the inception of Vision Creative Unit, a prestigious elite group comprising of the best iACADEMY students who are to take on exclusive projects and mentorship sessions with the country's most sought-after creative professionals.

OCTOBER 2021

iACADEMY won as the Learning and Development Organization of the Year (Academe) at the Gawad Maestro organized by the Philippine Society for Talent Development. Cited for being a spearhead of innovative, technology-focused, and industry-relevant programs, iACADEMY is lauded for aligning its curriculum and projects with the thrust of the country's educational reform.

SEPTEMBER 2021

US-based World Economic Magazine Inc. Awards announced iACADEMY  Most Progressive Education Provider (PH), recognized for being a thought leader and an industry disruptor among many schools in the Philippines and Asia. 

AUGUST 2021

 iACADEMY received three prestigious awards from the International Business Magazine based from UAE namely Most Innovative Design School (PH), Most Innovative Education Provider (PH), and Best New School for Music Production and Technology (PH). iACADEMY was lauded for its innovative home school program DRIVE or the Design for Remote, Individualized, and Versatile Education that ensured educational continuity and catered to students with various learning preferences during the pandemic. 

JULY 2021

UAE-based Global Business Review Magazine recognized iACADEMY as Most Innovative Education Provider (PH) and Best School for Music Production, Design, and Technology (PH). The school was internationally commended for its scholarly initiatives and strong partnerships with industry leaders such as Dolby and Atmos for Music Production and Sound Design Program, CG-Arts Japan for Animation, and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), to name a few. 

JUNE 2021

Global Brands recognized iACADEMY again as The Most Innovative Education Provider (PH), Most Innovative Design School (PH) and Best New School for Music Production and Technology (PH). 

2020

OCTOBER 2020

iACADEMY won the Most Innovative Education Provider award by the UK-based publications company Global Brands along with other top-tier schools including Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Nanyang Technological University.

2019

NOVEMBER 2019

iACADEMY inked its partnership with the Climate Change Commission in the promotion of a climate-resilient and climate-smart Philippines. CCC exhibited 30 of the students’ designs in CTRL+S Now: A Print Exhibition on Climate Change Awareness and Action during Climate Change Consciousness Week last November 2019. Recently, we’ve also implemented the Co-Create for Climate program with the project theme “Single Use Plastics” that faculty, students, and various stakeholders has contributed to.

OCTOBER 2019

iACADEMY formed a partnership with Unilab in October 2019. College students are given the chance to develop game changing student output aligned with improving the lives of Unilab's community partners as well as supporting Unilab's business objectives. Ongoing programs include the development of a Branding and Marketing Plan for one of Unilab's subsidiaries.

OCTOBER 2019

iACADEMY formed a partnership with Museo ng Kaalamáng Katutubò (MusKKat). College students have the chance to contribute to the development of MusKKat's marketing plans, promotional and computing materials to be able to raise awareness for notable Philippine indigenous artifacts. Past programs include development of Market Research and pitching of students to the MusKKat team, and the creation of short stories anchored on katutubong kaalaman.

OCTOBER 2019

iACADEMY became the first educational institution partner of the Department of Tourism. Since then iACADEMY has developed a mobile application that houses the travel website of the Philippines, Augmented Reality promotional materials, films featuring some of our provinces and the Philippines’ first social distancing app called Maze.

SEPTEMBER 2019

iACADEMY and PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) officially launched its BS Accountancy Program partnership.  PwC world-class practitioners will also be the mentors and teachers of students in the program.

FEBRUARY 2019

iACADEMY and PythonPH partnered in hosting PyCon APAC 2019. PyCon APAC is the largest gathering of Python developers in the Asia-Pacific region and it was the first time the gathering was held in the Philippines. 

JANUARY 2019

iACADEMY was appointed as the first and only Toon Boom Center of Excellence in Asia. Toon Boom Animation is the leading supplier of animation software and storyboard software for animation studios and media publishers. 

2018

OCTOBER 2018

iACADEMY has been chosen by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the first and only school in the Philippines to offer Cloud Computing Certification Courses in October 2018.

2017

JANUARY 2017

iACADEMY became the official partner of the International Game Developers Association in hosting Manila Game Jam 2017 as part of the Global Game Jam in January 2017.

2016

OCTOBER 2016

iACADEMY became a  Unity authorized training and certification partner allowing the school to offer training courses and Unity Certification Exams on behalf of Unity Technologies. Unity is a cross-platform game engine that is used to develop video games for PCs, mobile devices, websites, and consoles.