Game Design/Development

[Anonymous]

Is this major pretty competitive? DC is not applying to top 50 colleges. RIT and Syracuse are on the list. How many schools do most apply to?

[Anonymous]

It’s competitive. I believe UC Santa Cruz is one of the top schools.

[Anonymous]

Major itself is not competitive except for a few programs such as the one at USC SCA.

The field is very competitive.

[Anonymous]

Full Sail University is for-profit and stupid expensive, but it's a good safety school for game design. Not what you asked, but I figured I'd throw it out there.

[Anonymous]

DD went through the Game Design major (and Japanese minor) at GMU and was hired before graduation from Bethesda Softworks, which was taken over by Microsoft. She has now been a fully invested employee of Microsoft for five years and has let many GMU Game design majors to employment with her and received many cash awards for doing so. She gets her five year pin this fall.

[Anonymous]

University of Utah has a good program

[Anonymous]

Programs my DC looked at:

USC
NYU
CMU
Santa Cruz
RIT
WPI
RPI
GMU

It is competitive to get into the program at most of these, but some don't require you to declare a major right away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Programs my DC looked at:

USC
NYU
CMU
Santa Cruz
RIT
WPI
RPI
GMU

It is competitive to get into the program at most of these, but some don't require you to declare a major right away.

I would add Northeastern

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Programs my DC looked at:

USC
NYU
CMU
Santa Cruz
RIT
WPI
RPI
GMU

It is competitive to get into the program at most of these, but some don't require you to declare a major right away.

I would add Northeastern

Clark U.

[Anonymous]

Super competitive.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who teaches at USC program. It is a great program and very well funded. Kids get great jobs afterwards.

[Anonymous]

Check out SCAD!

https://www.scad.edu/academics/programs/interactive-design-and-game-development

[Anonymous]

More supply of would be game developers than demand. One will need very good results to find a job in game decelopment after graduation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this major pretty competitive? DC is not applying to top 50 colleges. RIT and Syracuse are on the list. How many schools do most apply to?

There is a difference between game design and true development. Can your kid code? Are they good at calculus?

[Anonymous]

These game design majors should make multiple art history classes a requirement. I watch my sons playing games set in the past and they totally mix up centuries with costumes being from one time period and architecture from another. The inaccuracy really bugs me.