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47 Master's degrees in Game Design in United States
Interactive Media
Understand, design and produce interactive experiences and prepare for a rewarding career – all in less than a year. We offer a master degree in Interactive Media degree at Elon University.

Game Design
The Game Design Postgrad.Cert programme from University of Michigan - Dearborn prioritize hands-on experience, giving you the chance to work directly on developing computer games and game development tools such as game engines. You’ll finish the certificate with a solid foundation in the practical implementation of game design along with comprehensive theoretical knowledge.
Game Design
The Game Design program from New York University is a 2-year Master degree located within NYU’s famous Tisch School of the Arts. We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with other forms of art, media, and culture. Our students study the design and development of games in a context of advanced critical literacy, becoming game designers and developers, artists and curators, critics and scholars.
Games and Interactive Media
The Games and Interactive Media program at American University Washington DC will help you create bridges and make change through the power of active engagement through games.
Media, Technology & Entertainment
The Media, Technology & Entertainment programme at Florida Atlantic University is an interdisciplinary Master of Fine Arts. This full-time degree combines film, interactive media, and computer science. Students explore digital animation and video production over a standard duration to prepare for creative careers.

Game Design
The Game Design programme offered at Full Sail University prepares you for a specialized role in the gaming industry by teaching the skills needed to contribute to multidisciplinary development teams.
Strategic Game Design and Applied Development
Expand your expertise or start a new career in the fast-growing, high-demand gaming industry by earning a Master of Science in Strategic Game Design and Applied Development (MS-SGDAD) at University at Albany.
Experimental Animation
In the MFA Experimental Animation Program at California Institute of the Arts CalArts, students are provided with a comprehensive foundational background and are encouraged to seek out poetic, lyrical, structural and other modes of experimentation with the materials and forms of the moving image.
Animation and Visual Effects
The Animation and Visual Effects MA program at Academy of Art University provides students an opportunity to work in 2D Animation & Stop Motion, 3D Animation, 3D Modeling, or Visual Effects, while focusing on storytelling with an emphasis on exhibiting technical skills and eliciting emotional responses.
Interactive Media and Game Design
Develop your creative practice and personal voice as an artist in IMGD. The Master of Fine Arts program offers a terminal degree through Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s renowned Interactive Media and Game Design program where our academic approach, resources, and connections will refine your artistic practice and innovate using new creative technologies with WPI’s new MFA in IMGD.
Digital Arts - 3-D Animation and Motion Arts
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.
Game Development
The MA in Game Development program at Academy of Art University allows students to further their careers by synthesizing traditional art and design fundamentals with today’s groundbreaking technologies.
Computer Science - Game Development
The goal of the Computer Science - Game Development MSc program offered at University of Southern California is to graduate students with a core in computer science, an engineering- oriented game development core, and a concentration in one of the key research directions in game development infrastructure, cognition and games, immersion, and serious games.
Computer Science - Games and Media Integration
Computer Science - Games and Media Integration from University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is an interdisciplinary degree that gives all students a firm foundation in pursuing research and development in the area of games, animation and movie making, VR/HCI, complex systems, and wearable computing.
Interactive Media and Game Development
Interactive Media and Game Development is offered by Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Are you ready to take your technical knowledge, artistic vision, and passion for gaming to the next level? WPI’s nationally ranked master’s in Interactive Media & Game Development (IMGD) will get you there.
Interactive Design and Game Development
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
Computer Graphics and Game Technology
The Computer Graphics and Game Technology program of University of Pennsylvania studies interactive entertainment and computer-animated visual effects and how they are now part of our mainstream culture.

Game Science and Design
The Game Science and Design MSc programme from Northeastern University gives students a comprehensive understanding of how successful game products are created in a player-centric environment.
Game Design
In New York Film Academy’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Game Design program, students learn the tools, theory, and craft of visual storytelling in an interactive medium, building their confidence in programming and design.
Game Design and Development
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.