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<p>hi, i want to get in the field of making video games and dont know what school i want to go to. i dont want to go to full sail and i visited the art institutes and it seems like a pretty decent school but i have read many negative things about it. any suggestions for a straight up game art and design school i would be much obliged.</p>

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<p>I think UC Santa Cruz has something there, my friend was looking into it I’m pretty sure.</p>

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<p>Maybe this will help. This is Princeton’s “annual” list of top game design / game art / game development schools. THE PRINCETON REVIEW NAMES TOP UNDERGRAD AND GRAD SCHOOLS TO STUDY GAME DESIGN FOR 2013:
[Top</a> Video Game Design Press Release<a href=“The%20list%20is%20pasted%20in%20below;%20on%20the%20actual%20website,%20there%20are%20links%20to%20the%20top%2010-15.”>/url</a></p>

<p>My Son and I also found this article helpful: Video Game Development School<br>
(Thursday, January 12, 2012) [url=&lt;a href=“http://askagamingrecruiter.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html]Ask”&gt;Ask A Gaming Recruiter: January 2012]Ask</a> A Gaming Recruiter: January 2012](<a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com/game-design-press-release.aspx]Top”>Top Game Design Press Release | Public Relations | The Princeton Review | The Princeton Review)</p>

<p>Curious why you decided against Full Sail University (Winter Park, FL)? My son is itching to go there and we’re heading there for an interview in about a week.</p>

<p>According to Princeton: IN ORDER OF Rank / School</p>

<pre><code>University of Utah (Salt Lake City UT)
University of Southern California (Los Angeles CA)
DigiPen Institute of Technology (DIT) (Redmond WA)
Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester NY)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge MA)
Drexel University (Philadelphia PA)
Shawnee State University (Portsmouth OH)
Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah GA)
The Art Institute of Vancouver (Vancouver British Columbia)
Michigan State University (East Lansing MI)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy NY)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester MA)
Becker College (Worcester MA)
New England Institute of Technology (East Greenwich RI)
North Carolina State University (Raleigh NC)
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<p>Honorable Mentions</p>

<pre><code>Bradley University (Peoria IL)
Champlain College (Burlington VT)
DePaul University (Chicago IL)
Ferris State University (Grand Rapids MI)
Full Sail University (Winter Park FL)
Georgia Tech (Atlanta GA)
Miami University (Oxford OH)
Northeastern University (Boston MA)
New York University / NYU-Poly (Brooklyn NY)
Oklahoma Christian University (Edmond OK)
Quinnipiac University (Hamden CT)
University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz CA)
The University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson TX)
University of Wisconsin - Stout (Menomonie WI)
Vancouver Film School (Vancouver BC)
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