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Hyper Island - Swedish Top Digital Education, Visits US on World Tour

Posted on: Friday, 5 December 2008, 07:38 CST

STOCKHOLM, December 5 /PRNewswire/ -- When everybody is talking about the global credit crunch and downsizing, world-renowned Swedish digital media school Hyper Island, looks bright upon the future. The world of advertising and digital agencies all have their eyes on "the Swedish interactive equivalent to Oxbridge" and are desperately trying to employ Hyper Island graduates and recruit interns.

Starting in an old prison on an island in the archipelago of Sweden in 1995, Hyper Island educates highly professional and well-rounded individuals, ready to get out in the digital media and advertising industry and work successfully from the day of graduation. Hyper Island's extraordinary mixture of over 400 international lecturers from around the world each year, together with a unique methodology and the opportunity to acquire an international internship placement, prepares the students for work around the globe.

"Our industry desperately needs more schools that specialize in creating and developing digital talent at the level and capacity of Hyper Island," Winston Binch, VP/Group Executive Producer, CrispinPorter+Bogusky, Boulder

Hyper Island students generally receive between five (5) and - amazingly - 50 internship placement offers each. Around 90% of the students are offered jobs within the industry upon graduation.

Hyper Island graduates are today working in over 300 leading companies in 40 different countries within the field of digital and interactive media and communication.

Hyper Island Recruitment Tour

For the first time ever, Hyper Island are on an international tour, to recruit students to the full-time Diploma programs. Hyper Island will visit the following cities:

For more information, please visit http://www.hyperisland.se

Hyper Island is a world-leading educator within the areas of interactive communication, business management and leadership. For 13 years, Hyper Island has been developing and providing training courses with its unique in-house method, developed upon experience-based learning. Hyper Island is based in Sweden, but is active throughout the world. http://www.hyperisland.se

SOURCE Hyper Island AB

Source: PR Newswire

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