Epic Games invests in higher education

<< LINK REMOVED >> The biggest mistake 20-year old grads make is hunting a top jobs. They should live with their parents and do internship - pay is experience and having to pay for education any more. If you are good - in 3 months you will land a job. That's how I started, I am good at what I do so I had a steady salary increase every 6 months.

If you really beleive in yourself I recommend a riskier path that will pay better if you're half as good as you think you are. Don't take any job at all. Make your own indie dev studio and apply Lean start-up approach to you're game development.

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That entirely depends on the school and the industry in question now, doesn't it?I doubt that you have attended a video game design school because those are the farthest thing from cramming for an exam. The education is synergized so you need to remember how everything worked in the last class if you expect to pass the next class. I doubt you work in the industry like I do because, if you did, you would know that video game development is very much like attending a decent game design school, such as Digipen. Those students probably do 10x the amount of work that any other regular school has students do and because of that, most of those students get hired before they even leave the school. Also, having 4-5 games under your belt within four years before leaving helps quite a bit, especially when your game is good enough to be a finalist in gd competitions.

I will give you some credit though. Game designers tend to get very cocky, in general, but graduates are definitely at the top of that peak when it comes to excessive ego. That being said, that ego is somewhat justified. Looking at Digipen again, it has very impressive alumni games. I don't think many game developers out there can say they worked with Valve, much less gave us the masterpiece that was Portal. We're in a new generation of game design now, with new blood coming in each day and old blood heading out the door.

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Your comment has no relevance to accredited game design schools but you did strike the nail on the head in reference to those sham schools that became very prominent in the 90s and early 2000s. << LINK REMOVED >>

<< LINK REMOVED >> True but it is very structured experience. Most courses are modular. Real life isn't modular. Real life isn't cramming for an exam and then forgetting most of it in the pub the following week.

I mean there must be a reason people do degrees and things. There must be a reward somewhat from it but overall I think people overestimate their capabilities when they leave.

I mean student doctors work in hospitals, they work at bedsides and with actual patients. Yet they have to be supervised for up to two years when they leave.

Because working to modules and exams and essay deadlines is the exact opposite of what real life is like.

<< LINK REMOVED >> Problem is, university does equate to experience in the case of games design. You're making games and producing assets, programming, designing it all...it's still regarded as experience. Not that it's enough to get you a top job, but it's still experience.