New York University To Offer Bachelor's Degree In Video Game Design

An undergraduate program for video game design at the New York University Game Center was approved by the New York Education Department last month.

Reported on The New York Times, the NYU Game Center, a department within the Tisch School of the Arts, will soon be accepting applicants for a bachelor of fine arts in game design. Twenty students from within NYU are expected to be accepted into the program in January. They will be followed by 40 first-year applicants starting in Fall 2015.

Game Center director Frank Lantz said that the undergraduate degree would help students to understand "the significance of game design as not only a potential career but as a way of thinking about the world."

New York University is not the only educational institution evolving its curriculum to include opportunities for studying game design. Earlier this year, George Mason University in Virginia announced plans for a degree which combined sports and the study of game design.