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The 10 Best Undergraduate Video Game Design Schools

The 10 Best Undergraduate Video Game Design Schools
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Gaming enthusiasts, take note -- the University of Southern California has been named the Princeton Review and GamePro Media's best school for video game design at the undergraduate and graduate level in 2011.

In 2010 and 2011, the Princeton Review questioned officials at 150 institutions that offer game design programs on their schools' academics, faculty credentials, facilities, infrastructure and post-grad employment placements. The top ten undergraduate and graduate schools were then selected based on these responses, as well as on the Princeton Review's own data on scholarships, financial aid and career opportunities at the schools under consideration.

The 20 best schools -- as well as five honorable mentions in each category -- will be featured in GamePro's upcoming April edition, to be released on March 8. The article -- currently available online -- offers information on each school and gives advice on how to be accepted into top graduate programs.

Below, check out the top ten undergraduate video game design programs. Princeton Review and GamePro have more info, plus the honorable mentions.

Did your school make the cut? Let us know in the comments section.

10 Best Undergraduate Video Game Design Programs
University of Southern California (01 of10)
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Interactive Media Division & Computer Science (Game Development) (credit:Flickr:*clairity*)
University of Utah(02 of10)
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Entertainment Arts and Engineering (credit:Flickr:Edgar Zuniga Jr.)
DigiPen Institute of Technology(03 of10)
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Art Institute of Vancouver (04 of10)
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Game Art & Design, Visual & Game Programming, Animation & Games (credit:Marcos Armstrong)
Michigan State University (05 of10)
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Specialization in Game Design and Development (credit:Flickr:A. Blight)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (06 of10)
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Interactive Media and Game Development (IMGD) (credit:Flickr:Svadilfari)
Drexel University (07 of10)
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Drexel Game Design (RePlay Lab) (credit:Flickr:Desiree N. Williams)
Champlain College (08 of10)
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Game Art & Animation, Division of Communication and Creative Media (credit:AP)
Rochester Institute of Technology (09 of10)
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Game Design & Development (credit:Flickr:Viktor Nagornyy)
Becker College(10 of10)
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Game Design & Game Programming (credit:Flickr:mike.benedetti)

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