<p>Sounds like Champlain College in Burlington, VT might be just the ticket – their majors include Game Art & Animation, Game Design and Graphic Design & Digital Media.</p>
<p>The program that digmedia’s son is in at OU is highly selective – it is a special honors program that, for filmmaking, takes something like just one or two students a year.</p>
<p>My neighbor just graduated from Champlain with a CS degree (not sure of specialty) and had a fabulous experience. He truly blossomed at Champlain and had a nice internship that led to a great job offer upon graduation.</p>
<p>Marny, as needsl2learn stated, I believe that digmedia’s son attended the honors program at Ohio U. I believe that he graduated from Ohio University.</p>
<p>I remember Digmedia from my older son’s college search. I also remember that his/her child had better stats. 
which made our searches a bit different. Champlain College was my older son’s #1 choice. He was accepted to the college there but not the game design program that he wanted and that was not a program that you could enter into later. Also, the finaid offer was pretty much non-existant. All of us loved the college and Burlington though and I can see my youngest son applying just to see what happens. I would love an excuse to visit again!</p>
<p>Willamette- The college looks interesting but looks like it has a strong music/artsy focus. Son is more the computer geeky type. Am I wrong?</p>
<p>yup- it was digmedia who I was thinking about. I think it was some honors/tutorial program his son may have been in- but I think his studies were in the field of digital media. Possibly OU has a non honors track for the subject ??</p>
<p>Willamette is strong in the arts and music but is better known for languages, sciences, and political science. More of an all around LAC.
BTW the six year grad rate is 45% NMSU. Lots of older students. low income who drop out for awhile to work and then return. Not apologizing for the stats, just explaining. New Mexico has great ties with the film industry (No Country for Old Men, The Appaloosa, Transformers, 3:10 to Yuma, Brokeback Mountain, plus many we don’t wish to remember 
) and they use locals for production. Still not for everyone.
What about Digipen in Redmond WA <a href=“DigiPen | A College for Interactive Media and Video Game Development”>DigiPen | A College for Interactive Media and Video Game Development;
<p>CSleslie, Ahh, found the link for the Willamette program - <a href=“http://www.universities.com/edu/www.Willamette_University.html[/url]”>http://www.universities.com/edu/www.Willamette_University.html</a>. One plus is that we have family in Portland. Having a spread out family helps during the college search! </p>
<p>NMSU, looks like a real self-selecting college sort of in the same way as Digipen. The latter, btw, was one of the first colleges that I looked at for my older son because of their game design program. Older Son deemed it a little too intense but will put it on the list for young son.</p>
<p>I’m willing to look at Ohio U on paper but am not sure of paying for an oos public U. We’re planning a visit to PSU for the heck of it later this summer and that should give him a good feel for a big state U. He will not be a candidate for a PSU honors program, but might make our second tier (Millersville, Kutztown, etc.) colleges honors programs.</p>
<p>Yes, I know about Willamette. D is going to be a senior there. At Willamette the digital media studies is under film studies. Have yet to hear her talk of anyone she knows who is in the major, though she has taken several of their required courses as her electives.</p>
<p>The world is full of people who write a program. What the world is short, is people who can tell a good story that can use the media. </p>
<p>Disney-Pixar brand is reliable and timeless because of their storytelling not the technology.</p>
<p>kathiep, I don’t know if the University of Florida is on your radar at all since you said you weren’t crazy about paying for an OOS public, but take a look at this page on their Digital Arts and Sciences major. [CISE</a> :: Academics : Undergraduate : Digital Arts and Sciences (DAS)](<a href=“http://www.cise.ufl.edu/academics/undergrad/das/]CISE”>http://www.cise.ufl.edu/academics/undergrad/das/). Here’s an excerpt:
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<p>It appears that there are different focuses for this major. One seems more for people interested in working as an audio engineer or live people/events and the other is more for computer oriented people dealing with already completed video or even animation. Further, sometimes this falls under mass media, arts or computer science. My guess is that son is more interested in the computer oriented programs, but maybe that will change. I’m interested in visiting some schools so he can explore the different options. He finished school yesterday, so time to look around!</p>
<p>S, who graduated from HS in 2001, was a B student and accepted at RPI’s EMAC program. (He decided to attend UCLA instead.) He also received great merit award, but chose to go west. It’s a great program and might be right up your S’s alley.</p>
<p>Even if you have doubts, I’d recommend that your S apply. With his background and experience, you never know - he might get accepted! Feel free to PM me for more info.</p>
<p>Check out UCF’s (The University of Central Florida in Orlando) Digital Media program. I have heard that the students there get great internships over at Disney and Universal. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.catalog.sdes.ucf.edu/degree_programs/digital_media.pdf[/url]”>http://www.catalog.sdes.ucf.edu/degree_programs/digital_media.pdf</a></p>
<p>Seiclan, This sounds just like what I was looking for! There are a few majors there that would appeal, curriculum looks great, entrance stats look do-able and the flights from here to Orlando are always the lowest of any destination. The only two negatives I can see is that over 90% of the students are from Florida and they give very little financial aid. We won’t qualify for actual financial aid but I’m hoping for merit aid. Right now the positives outweigh the negatives - thank you!</p>
<p>Kathiep, check out University of Cincinnati’s Digital Design major in their school of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning. My daughter is in that program and LOVES it. It is a combination of web design, graphic design, Adobe expertise, sound design, digital photography,animation and special effects all rolled into one program. It has some interesting coop opportunities also. For example, some kids helped design the special effects for David Copperfield. My daughter worked for a firm that designed web sites for movie studios and helped design the site for Nick and Nora movie and for the Dark Knight.</p>
<p>From what I can tell, it is akin to RIT’s New Media Major but is more expansive than that of RIT’s program.</p>
<p>Only 33% of the students who applied to Cincinnati were accepted as graphic design majors. Here’s some info on digital design, which I’d think would be just as competitive;</p>
<p>[Digital</a> Design: Admission Information](<a href=“http://daap.uc.edu/design/digital/admissions]Digital”>http://daap.uc.edu/design/digital/admissions)</p>
<p>Check out Computational Media at Georgia Tech - it’s a great program that combines Computer Science with Media/Communications.</p>
<p>[Computational</a> Media Major Overview](<a href=“http://lcc.gatech.edu/compumedia/?page_id=9]Computational”>http://lcc.gatech.edu/compumedia/?page_id=9)</p>
<p>Okay, now I’ve got 18 colleges saved in my data locker over at collegedata, prices range from $25,00 to $50,000. I just thought of this major a week or so ago and we’ve got a dozen and a half colleges already! If only that’s all there was to do to get this guy on the road to college.</p>
<p>My sister loves her program in multimedia web design at the Univesity of Hartford
[Multimedia</a> Web Design and Development | University of Hartford](<a href=“http://www.mwd.hartford.edu/]Multimedia”>http://www.mwd.hartford.edu/)
Merit aid likely too</p>
<p>Another program worth looking into is University of Cincinnati’s program in digital design: [University</a> of Cincinnati - Degree Programs](<a href=“http://www.uc.edu/degreeprograms/Program.aspx?program=23BSDES-DGTL]University”>http://www.uc.edu/degreeprograms/Program.aspx?program=23BSDES-DGTL)</p>