So, I just got back from a college visit to Georgia Tech. I've already gotten in and stuff and that's where I'll probably go seeing as how it's 20 minutes away and Georgia residents go free so I figured I'd go check it out. So before the tour around campus we were in the theater watching a presentation explaining all the various majors and stuff. I was pretty surprised when I found out they offered a "Computational Media" major, a major built around video games. Unlike traditional Computer Science and Computer Engineering majors, it also mixes in a lot of classes from the Liberal Arts side of things that also factor into game development. So this guy was going on and on about how games are such a huge business now and they are really excited to be at the forefront of this great new medium that combines technology and entertainment so well.
So anyway, after I got back I went on their website to find out more.
Check it out here. Check out some of the pics of the classrooms with HDTV's and Gamecubes and Xboxes all over the place. Now that's what classes should be like
Anyway, it's good to see that America's most presitigious colleges are teaching game studies and development too, in addition to little niche colleges that most people haven't heard of.
As for me, I'm not sure if I'll choose this Computational Media over a more traditional Computer Engineering major yet, but I do know I've always wanted to get into video game development.
So I haven't really checked out any of the other big name tech colleges like Berkeley and Stanford and MIT and Michigan and such, but I'm sure in the next few years at least majoring in video games will be pretty huge.
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Here's the website of the University's "Game Lab."
Topic: Computational Media (Read 2168 times)
