The Princeton Review’s sixth annual rankings of the Top 25 undergraduate and graduate schools to study game design include two Georgia schools.
The list, released early Tuesday, places Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah) at No. 19 on the undergraduate list. The school is also listed at No. 10 on the list of best graduate schools to study game design.
Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta is listed at No. 23 on the list of best graduate programs for game design.
No other Georgia schools are included on the lists.
The University of Southern California retained its No. 1 spot on the undergraduate list for the fifth time in six years. The University of Utah grabbed the No.1 graduate school title -- up from No. 4 in 2014.
The Princeton Review is a test preparation, tutoring,and college admission services company. The company's lists of The Top 25 undergraduate and Top 25 graduate schools are based on the company's 2014-15 survey of 150 institutions in the U.S., Canada, and abroad offering game design coursework and/or degree programs, the company said.
The Princeton Review found that undergrads are earning an average starting salary of $58,000, a 20 percent increase from last year and 28 percent more than the average salary for all 2014 undergrads.
The Princeton Review teamed with PC Gamer magazine to compile the lists of top schools. The May issue will include the rankings and details about class offerings, professors, and alumni. The magazine hits newsstands March 31.
The rankings are based on four areas: curriculum, facilities, technology,and career services.
The Princeton Review's "Top 25 Undergraduate Schools to Study Game Design for 2015" are:
1. University of Southern California( Los Angeles)
2. University of Utah( Salt Lake City)
3. DigiPen Institute of Technology( Redmond, Wash.)
4. Drexel University( Philadelphia)
5. The Art Institute of Vancouver( Vancouver, British Columbia)
6. Rochester Institute of Technology( Rochester, N.Y.)
7. Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.)
8. Shawnee State University( Portsmouth, Ohio)
9. Becker College (Worcester, Mass.)
10. Hampshire College( Amherst, Mass.)
11. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute( Troy, N.Y.)
12. Carnegie Mellon University( Pittsburgh)
13. Bradley University( Peoria, Ill.)
14. Massachusetts Institute of Technology( Cambridge, Mass)
15. Champlain College( Burlington, Vt.)
16. Ferris State University( Grand Rapids, Mich)
17. Worcester Polytechnic Institute( Worcester, Mass.)
18. The University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, Texas)
19. Savannah College of Art and Design ( Savannah, Ga.)
20. New York University( Brooklyn, N.Y.)
21. Abertay University ( Dundee, Scotland)
22. Northeastern University( Boston)
23. Lawrence Technological University( Southfield, Mich.)
24. Full Sail University ( Winter Park, Fla.)
25. DePaul University( Chicago)
The Princeton Review's "Top 25 Graduate Schools to Study Game Design for 2015" are:
1. University of Utah( Salt Lake City)
2. University of Central Florida( Orlando, Fla.)
3. Southern Methodist University( Plano, Texas)
4. University of Southern California( Los Angeles)
5. DigiPen Institute of Technology( Redmond, Wash.)
6. Rochester Institute of Technology( Rochester, N.Y.)
7. Drexel University( Philadelphia)
8. University of California at Santa Cruz( Santa Cruz, Calf.)
9. New York University( Brooklyn, N.Y.)
10. Savannah College of Art and Design( Savannah, Ga.)
11. Massachusetts Institute of Technology( Cambridge, Mass.)
12. The University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, Texas)
13. DePaul University( Chicago)
14. Carnegie Mellon University( Pittsburgh)
15. Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.)
16. The Ohio State University– Columbus, Ohio).
17. Worcester Polytechnic Institute( Worcester, Mass).
18. Full Sail University (
Winter Park, Fla.
)
19. University of Pennsylvania( Philadelphia).
20. Abertay University ( Dundee, Scotland)
21. American University( Washington, D.C.)
22. Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas)
23. Georgia Institute of Technology( Atlanta)
24. Sacred Heart University( Fairfield, Conn.)
25. University of Illinois at Chicago( Chicago).