I would definitely have to spend two years at my new school to graduate, and like I said above, I’m ok with that because the courses I’ve been taking are so bad I learned next to nothing from them.
I thought I was going to be able to turn out a decent portfolio at the end of next year. I had been doing hours and hours of free labor for the department every week to secure this portfolio artifact I desperately needed. At the end of last semester I found out it isn’t going to be able to go in. That’s certainly what put the thought of transferring on my mind. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but up until last semester I thought if I worked hard enough I could make this program work. Now (at the very last moment) I’m starting to realize there’s nothing I can do to turn this thing around.
I’ve applied to tons of internships in games but I’ve never gotten a response. Companies are hesitant to hire someone from out of state, and since our program doesn’t have a relationship with any development studios (which is how students typically land competitive internships), it’s twice as hard to get one. I’ve applied to every internship offered by our program, period, and I did one for a few months, but it wasn’t relevant to games at all. I also did some contract work for the program for a while. Not a single student in our program has been able to get an internship in games. Not one.
Also, I just realized I forgot to respond to the computer science question above: there is a computer science major at my school, but the classes are all overbooked and difficult to get into. It would take me at least as long to get a computer science degree here as it would take for me to transfer to another school.