The School of Audio Engineering (SAE) was set up in October 1976. SAE Institute provides practical training courses, as well as academic diploma and degree programmes in the areas of audio engineering, digital film production, interactive animation, games programming and multimedia. The school offers honours and masters degrees as well as doctorates. Students can also take up their professional development postgraduate studies at the institute. The programs offered by the International Graduate College of the Institute are designed to cater for distance learning.