UCI or University of Pennsylvania for Computer Game Science/Digital Media Design (or Animation)

Does anyone know about the Computer Game Science program? I know it’s really new, but since it’s a CS degree, it still seems “safe”.

Penn’s degree in DMD is in engineering.

Pros of UCI is mostly that it’s near home for my son and the major seems interesting and maybe the connection to Blizzard?

Pros for Penn would be that it’s more affordable, more flexibility, more support and smaller class sizes and they have a connection to Pixar. But it is across the country from us and my son has some health issues. He would take a gap year if he went to Penn. Can’t do that at UCI.

Any feedback is welcome.

Don’t know much about the program, but this link might help a bit.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/prospective/en/degrees/computer-game-science/