202 Master's degrees in Game Design

The Game Design and Development program of Rochester Institute of Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology explores the simulation, edutainment, or visualization landscape as you enhance your game design and development skills to create truly innovative games.

The Animation and Visual Effects master programme at Academy of Art University offers a professional environment for advanced creative study. This public course focuses on industry-standard technology and collaborative projects. Students develop high-level portfolios through hands-on training in a full-time study mode.

At Digital Arts - 3-D Animation and Motion Arts at Pratt Institute students create evocative narrative and non-narrative films and installations using 2-D and 3-D digital animation techniques, live action, and motion graphics.  

The Game Programming program at DePaul University is designed for those interested in game development programming at the highest level, including real time computing, computer graphics, and professional retooling for the game industry.

The Virtual Reality programme at University of the Arts London (UAL) is a master level course delivered through a public study mode. This intensive postgraduate degree focuses on immersive technology and creative practice, equipping students with advanced technical skills to lead innovation within the global digital media sector.

This course in Orchestration for Films, Games and TV at ThinkSpace Education takes you from first sketch to the final recording with a live orchestral session, giving you all the knowledge you need to turn an idea into a professionally recorded orchestral score.

Composing for Video Games at ThinkSpace Education will prepare you to enter the industry as a video games composer and give you all the skills you need to compose and implement fully interactive music using industry standard middleware. You will be given the space and support to develop as a composer, finding your voice and raising your production and composition to a professional standard.

The Games Development (Programming) course at Anglia Ruskin University will help you to take your computer game development skills to the next level. Study, plan, produce and test games in our specialist studios. Working alongside students from our Computer Games Development Art course, you’ll gain experience in multi-disciplinary working and create an advanced portfolio.

Game Design and Technology from University of Gothenburg teaches you a blend of the skills and techniques required to work in and around the game industry. 

Video games are rapidly evolving, both technically and creatively, and this is creating enormous opportunities for game audio professionals. There are a lot of trained composers, but few are trained to deal with both the compositional and sound design roles involved with the Video Game Music and Audio at ThinkSpace Education.

Within the scope of Visual Computing, the Computer Science - Visual Computing and Game Development program from Charles University offers training in a wide range of visual sciences, including geometric modeling, rendering (image synthesis) as well as the basics of image analysis and computer vision. 

This one-year intensive master of Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games degree at Berklee College of Music focuses on the art and craft of composing, orchestrating, editing, and producing music for the screen using the latest technology.

The Master of Arts degree in Game Design, offered by the College of Creative Arts from West Virginia University, is for emerging game designers who would like to expand and build upon their conceptual, production, and project management skills, as well as to further their professional credentials.

Bridge art and tech with interactive design and game development to transform digital media with Interactive design and game development at Savannah College of Art and Design.

The User Experience and Interactive Media Design program from Södertörn University provides students with the opportunity to qualify for work in media technology, with a particular focus on interaction design, user experience design, and the design of interactive media.

Fundamental to the philosophy of the MA Design - Games Art course from AAS College is the provision of an opportunity for students to explore and realise their individual aspirations and potential, creating a framework for developing more fully as skilled and informed professional practitioners.

Our Master of Interactive Technologies and Games Design offered by James Cook University program provides practical and relevant skills to allow graduates of different disciplines to move into the IT industry.

The Interactive Media (Games and Health) program offered at University of Southern California has been training leaders in health management and policy for more than 35 years.

This Cinematic and Videogame Architecture programme at UCL offers students a unique opportunity to design innovative projects at the convergence of architecture, film and videogames. 

Discover ReSound, an innovative Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Programme that reimagines the role of sound in culture, society, and the creative industries. This two-year, four-semester journey goes beyond the screen, elevating sound as a fully-fledged discipline and a starting point for exploring its profound connection to image, space, and experience. *This programme is subject to validation*