JULY 10, 2024 — Students with a love for video games will have a chance to turn their hobby into an exciting career with the help of a new program later this year. A new Game Design program, to be ...

More than 61% of the U.S. population, or nearly 191 million people, plays video games at least one hour each week, according to the Entertainment Software Association, an industry trade group.

Now, that program has graduated from a media arts concentration to a full bachelor's degree. There were 19 game design students in fall 2023, when UM started tracking the program as its own degree.

Game Design is one of 14 different tracks available within the multidisciplinary studies bachelor’s degree. The track includes three focus areas (game programming, digital art, and media and game ...

A good game design program should not only give students challenging assignments in the classroom, but also allow them to practice their skills in the wider world.

Nearly all of the students in the programs developed an actionable plan to launch a functional game after graduation. At undergraduate programs, that figure was 97 percent. At graduate programs, it ...

Every year, the Princeton Review ranks the 50 best undergraduate and 25 best graduate programs for video game design, rated through a set of criteria from graduate employment percentage to notable ...

Princeton Review, an education services company, recently ranked UW-Stout’s undergraduate game design programs, which include the B.F.A. game design and development and B.S. computer science ...

Admission Requirements for Game Design Degrees Requirements for admission to game design programs vary by school. Generally, applicants need at least a high school diploma demonstrating four years ...

Rochester Institute of Technology is one of the top schools in the world to study game design and launch games for 2017, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review. RIT’s game ...

Students at UC Santa Cruz majoring in computer game design–an interdisciplinary program that provides a rigorous background in the technical, artistic, and narrative elements of creating interactive ...