Top Video Game Design Schools In The World

FortuneZ’s 2019 Top Video Game Design Schools list, includes a ranking of the World’s Top Video Game Design Schools, based on a methodology that assesses academic reputation, employer reputation, quality of teaching, and diversity. Over the past couple of months, we conducted a survey with the aim of providing an objective assessment of the world’s best business schools, evaluated across academic reputation, admission eligibility, job placement rate, specialization, and more. We surveyed more than 15,000 individuals in an extensive poll, including 4,500 students, 7,000 industry professionals, and 3,500 recruiters around the world.

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FortuneZ’s best video game design schools in the world, 2019: Methodology

The tenets of our methodology remain the same, but each year we aim to refine. This year, the factors we have considered is based on 7 major indicators of quality, overall Score (100%) is the sum of:

Academic reputation
Admission eligibility
Job placement rate
Recruiter feedback
Specialisation
Global reputation and influence
Annual tuition and fees

Data for these indicators was collected from publicly available sources, business school’s website, our research, and survey. It measures the quality of education, job placements of students, and the recruiters feedback, without relying on university data submissions. Students, industry professionals, and recruiters were asked to rate business schools on a scale of 1 “marginal” to 100 “outstanding” or “don’t know.”

However, this is by no means a comprehensive list, while the above listed schools are the “Top Video Game Design Schools In The World – 2019 Ranking” , there may be many other schools that offer excellent video game design programs.
This rankings should not be viewed as the most important aspect when choosing a business school, and are simply one element to consider.
The overall score is 100 points.
Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.
The rankings are the result of a rigorous analytical exercise, incorporating multiple data sources, without relying on university data submissions.
Detailed survey data and information collected directly from 15,000 individuals, across 7 data points.
Surveys completed by 4,500 students, 7,000 industry professionals, and 3,500 recruiters around the world.
The overall score are numerical scores given to the schools based on students, business executives, and recruiter feedback — measuring the quality of the school. Overall scores are out of 100.
More details about the “Top Video Game Design Schools In The World – 2019 Ranking” – contact us here.

Discover the Top Video Game Design Schools Worldwide with FortuneZ in the table below.

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2019 Top Video Game Design Schools In The World

Rank	School Name	City
1	University of Southern California	Los Angeles, California
2	University of Utah	Salt Lake City, Utah
3	University of Central Florida	Orlando, FL
4	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburg, PA
5	DigiPen Institute of Technology	Redmond, Washington
6	ArtFX	Montpellier, France
7	Rochester Institute of Technology	Rochester, New York
8	Savannah College of Art and Design	Savannah, GA Atlanta GA
9	Full Sail University	Winter Park, Florida
10	Hanze University Groningen	Groningen, Netherlands
11	Drexel University	Philadelphia, PA
12	Hampshire College	Hampshire, Massachusetts
13	Southern New Hampshire University	Hooksett, New Hampshire
14	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Troy, NY
15	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Worcester, MA
16	Parsons The New School for Design	New York, NY
17	Staffordshire University	Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
18	Columbia College	Columbia, Missouri
19	Abertay University	Dundee, Scotland
20	Sacred Heart University	Fairfield, Connecticut
21	Universal Arts School	Valencia, Spain
22	Cornell University	Ithaca, NY New York City, NY
23	Falmouth University	Falmouth, England
24	Columbia College Chicago	Chicago, IL
25	SAE Institute Berlin	Berlin, Germany
26	Robert Morris University	Chicago, Illinois
27	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA
28	Manchester Metropolitan University	Manchester, England
29	New York University, Tisch School of the Arts	New York, NY
30	Tampere University	Tampere, Finland
31	North Carolina State University	Raleigh, North Carolina
32	Utrecht University	Utrecht, Netherlands
33	Michigan State University	East Lansing, MI
34	National Film & Television School	Beaconsfield, England
35	Shawnee State University	Portsmouth, OH
36	Charles University Faculty of Mathematics and Physics	Prague, Czech Republic
37	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA
38	Univserity of South Wales	Pontypridd, Wales, UK
39	University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX
40	Brunel University	Uxbridge, England
41	Southern Methodist University	Plano, Texas; Taos, New Mexico
42	Texas A&M University	College Station, Texas
43	LISAA School of Art & Design	Paris, France
44	University of Wisconsin-Stout	Menomonie, Wisconsin
45	University of Klagenfurt	Klagenfurt, Austria
46	Northeastern University	Boston, MA; Seattle, WA; Silicon Valley, CA
47	University of Southampton	Southampton, England
48	Quinnipiac University	Hamden, Connecticut
49	University of Skovde	Skovde, Sweden
50	University of Texas at Dallas	Dallas, TX
51	Teeside University	Teeside, UK
52	Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, GA
53	Imperial College London	London, England
54	Cleveland Institute of Art	Cleveland, Ohio
55	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Newark, New Jersey
56	Saxion University of Applied Sciences	Enschede, Netherlands
57	New England Institute of Technology	East Greenwich, Rhode Island
58	Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design	Lakewood, Colorado
59	Champlain College	Burlington, VT Montreal, Canada Dubin, Ireland
60	Becker College	Worcester, MA; Leicester, MA
61	Maryville University	St. Louis, Missouri
62	Oxford Brookes University	Oxford, England
63	Kennesaw State University	Kennesaw, Georgia
64	Case Western Reserve University	Cleveland, Ohio
65	University of Michigan-Dearborn	Dearborn, Michigan
66	Ringling College of Art and Design	Sarasota, FL
67	Liberty University	Lynchburg, Virginia
68	Abilene Christian University	Abilene, Texas
69	University of Malta	Valletta, Malta
70	Norwich University Of The Arts	Norwich, England
71	Grand View University	Des Moines, Iowa
72	IT University of Copenhagen	Copenhagen, Denmark
73	University of Denver	Denver, Colorado
74	University of California, Irvine	Irvine, CA
75	Autograf	Paris, France
76	University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX
77	Southern Illinois University	Carbondale, Illinois
78	George Mason University	Fairfax, Arlington, Prince William Countries, VA
79	Miami University	Oxford, OH
80	Zurich University of the Arts	Zurich, Switzerland
81	High Point University	High Point, North Carolina
82	University of Miami	Coral Gables, Florida
83	University of California, Santa Cruz	Santa Cruz,California
84	University of the Arts London	London, UK
85	DePaul University	Chicago, IL
86	Glasgow Caledonian University	Glasgow, Scotland
87	Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy	Orlando, Florida
88	Ferris State University	Big Rapids, Michigan
89	Tokyo Polytechnic University	Honch?, Nakano, Tokyo
90	New York Film Academy	New York, NY; Burbank, CA; Miami Beach, FL
91	Cogswell Polytechnical College	San Jose, California
92	Cogswell Polytechnical College	San Jose, California
93	Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis	Indianapolis, IN
94	AAS College	Thessaloniki, Greece
95	Eastern Kentucky University	Richmond, Kentucky
96	California Institute of the Arts	Santa Clarita, California
97	The Digital Animation & Visual Effects School	Orlando, FL
98	Ravensbourne	London, England
99	Academy of Interactive Entertainment, Seattle	Seattle, WA
100	University of Derby	Derby, England
101	Academy of Art University	San Francisco, CA
102	Woodbury University	Burbank, CA; San Diego, CA
103	Bradley University	Peoria, Illinois
104	Gnomon School of Visual Effects	Los Angeles, CA
105	York St John University	York, England
106	Laguna College of Art and Design	Laguna Beach, CA
107	Maryland Institute College of Art	Baltimore, MD
108	Stony Brook University	Stony Brook, NY
109	Solent University	Southampton, England
110	Otis College of Art and Design	Los Angeles, CA
111	The Art Center College of Design	Pasadena, CA
112	The University of Tulsa	Tulsa, Oklahoma
113	Marist College	Poughkeepsie, NY
114	Edinboro University	Edinboro, Pennsylvania
115	Plymouth College of Art	Plymouth, England
116	University of California Los Angeles	Los Angeles, California
117	Bath Spa University	Bath, England
118	Oklahoma City University	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
119	Schreiner University	Kerrville, Texas
120	University of Bradford	Bradford, England
121	Baker College	Flint, Michigan
122	Lawrence Technological University	Southfield, MI
123	University Of Pikevilley	Pikeville, Kentucky
124	American University	Washington, D.C.
125	Oklahoma Christian University	Edmond, Oklahoma
126	Buckinghamshire New University	UK
127	Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU)	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
128	University of Suffolk	Suffolk, England
129	London South Bank University	London, England
130	Limkokwing University of Creative Technology	Cyberjaya, Malaysia
131	Bellevue University	Bellevue, Nebraska
132	Multimedia University	Cyberjaya, Malaysia

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