[4] The Iovine and Young Academy is highly competitive and admits a small cohort of students each year.

[6] The Academy was founded in 2013 following a $70 million donation by Jimmy Iovine and Andre (Dr. Dre) Young.

[9] On July 8, 2021, it was announced that Thanassis Rikakis, a professor of bioengineering at Virginia Tech, would be joining the Academy as its second dean.

[10] In 2017, the Academy launched a new online professional master's degree program in Integrated Design, Business and Technology.

[13] The school houses a fabrication lab for metal, wood, plastics, and electronics; a multimedia lab for motion capture, photo, video, and audio; an adaptive studio/lecture classrooms; an alumni incubator for Academy student-founded companies; and a podcast booth.