<p>Currently I am attending the University of Oregon. I want to transfer out to one of four schools: Carnegie Mellon University, UC-Berkeley, UM-Ann Harbor, and Cornell University. I have the credentials to attend these schools, but I don't know what is right for me. I want to enter the Video Game Industry. Not as a programmer though, but as a develepor or a director/producer or an executive. All four schools have excellent tech and business, but overall i'm considering the best bang for the buck, financial aid, campus life and area, and overall experience. PLEASE HELP ME!</p>
<p>You want to enter the video game industry as a developer or executive?</p>
<p>You might as well say "I want to enter politics, but as President and not a state senator."</p>
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Not as a programmer though, but as a develepor
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A software developer is just a fancier title for programmer...</p>
<p>"well, the only universities that i'm even aware that have Video game production programs of any sort are Berkely, MIT, and USC. I'm in the one at USC btw."</p>
<p>i posted this in your other post.......which was exactly like this one.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon is a very good university for video game development.</p>
<p>RPI, Case Western, and WPI have good video game programs if you're looking for backups. The four you mentioned are some of the best hard-core CS programs but
a.)Even with the credentials you aren't locked at CMU or Cornell for CS.
b.)They will flood you with work (has Oregon prepared you enough?)</p>
<p>"I want to enter politics, but as President and not a state senator."
Didn't Bush do that? :)</p>
<p>Well without connections you'll end up at an entry-level position somewhere before you can start managing people. You'll find some good ones, but not as good as someone from MIT or Stanford. I think CMU has the highest average starting salary ~around 73,000. If you can get a dual degree from Tepper and the school of CS, you're set. But GOOD LUCK.</p>
<p>This school may seem more like a trade school rather than a conventional college but it's pretty well known in the video game industry: digipen.edu</p>
<p>so is full sail but you dont really transfer from a 4 year university to one of them, and they have very specific and high admission requirments.</p>
<p>Well actually Bush started as a governor, but he was a really BAD governor.</p>
<p>And Carnegie Mellon has alot of extracurricular video game & robotics stuff in addition to its world-renowned CS program.</p>
<p>of course one plus about going to a west coast school with a video game program is that you're alot closer to said companies. I've already been to E3 twice (come this may), done testing with Sony and worked for a small Cell Phone gaming company.</p>
<p>I second DiGipen. VERY HARDCORE</p>
<p>Another suggestion is the Guildhall Program at Southern Methodist U <a href="http://guildhall.ecsrv.smu.edu/News/MMORPG.htm%5B/url%5D">http://guildhall.ecsrv.smu.edu/News/MMORPG.htm</a>. It's a graduate program but looks very interesting and already has a good track record of getting people into the industry. One nice thing about it is that it has tracks for various career paths - i.e., programming, game design, game art. Check it out.</p>