UAT?

I can't answer your question directly, but I can say that the general consensus here seems to be that game programming degrees are a bad idea. From what I hear, the professional game programming community doesn't really think too highly of them (presumably it is thought that you don't get a good grounding in computer science and software engineering, which would probably be helpful), and other professional programming communities appear to think nothing of them. If you don't make it into game development, the degree gives you nowhere else to go in the same way that a more general degree might.

Of course, if you want to do it for the sake of doing it, then don't let me deter you =-)

[edited by - Extrarius on April 2, 2004 1:29:22 AM]

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Choosing a school can be difficult, especially when you take in how much it''s going to cost and how much weight your sheep''s skin (degree) is going to hold against other potential employees in the market place. I remember going to a college fair in hopes of meeting with someone from Devry. But as it turned out--they were the only college that didn''t show! This told me that if they can''t even show up to an event that they were scheduled to show up at, then I can pretty much assume that it wasn''t a "good" college. Later I started looking into Full Sail. This college really rocked on the surface. The building looked awesome, it was in Florida, and you could get out in a year! However, on the inside, the material learned is covered way to fast, it''s more like a graduate factory then a College/University, and the price per year was way too high (50k for one year O_o). At this point I was out of answers, so, I talked to LaMothe. He said to go to a "standard" state university and get a major in CS and a minor in something "artsy". But this didn''t fly with me. I wanted to go to a place where I could totally eat, sleep, and breathe Game Development. Not a place where a bunch of people are taking computer classes hoping to make 70K a year programming databases for some large conglomerate. Therefore I need something in between of a 4 year Uni and a tech school. And yada yada yada, I''ll be going to UAT soon. This school has the best of both worlds: 4 year BS degrees (or BA), technology focused, Game Development focused, 20k a year (includes room and board), no dorms, a high placement rate, it''s in a climate and city I like (Phoenix AZ), and on and on and on...

I would recommend holding off on the Devrys and ITT Techs for awhile. If you notice, they''re geared towards adult''s soon approaching 30, who still don''t know what they want to do and are working dead end jobs. You could do what I''m doing: go to your local community college and get you GenEDs out of the way and wait for these GD degrees to mature and let the Colleges that offer them, get all the bugs out.

In the end though, a college degree is a college degree, and looks good no matter where you went and what you''re going to do (career wise).
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I am working on getting into UAT right now. My current project is getting the Community Scholarship done. Hopefully everything will be in order by September.