2024 Best Game & Interactive Media Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

a bachelor's degree in game & interactive media design is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #213 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Game & Interactive Media Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 107 bachelor's degrees in game & interactive media design during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Choosing a Great Game & Interactive Media Design School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The game and interactive media design bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality game and interactive media design program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on game & interactive media design students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of game & interactive media design students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized game & interactive media design related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for game & interactive media design students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Game & Interactive Media Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

 

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Game & Interactive Media Design in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in game & interactive media design.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Game and Interactive Media Design

1

Utah Valley University
Orem, UT

22 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in game & interactive media design has to look into Utah Valley University. UVU is a very large public university located in the city of Orem.More information about a bachelor’s in game & interactive media design from Utah Valley University

2

Boise State University
Boise, ID

48 Annual Graduates

Boise State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in game & interactive media design. Boise State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Boise.More information about a bachelor’s in game & interactive media design from Boise State University

3

Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design
Lakewood, CO

28 Annual Graduates

Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in game & interactive media design. Located in the medium-sized city of Lakewood, RMCAD is a private for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in game & interactive media design from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design

Best Game & Interactive Media Design Colleges by State

Explore the best game & interactive media design schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	415	22
Colorado	316	37
Idaho	312	48

View All Rankings >

Game & Interactive Media Design Related Rankings by Major

One of 9 majors within the Design & Applied Arts area of study, Game & Interactive Media Design has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Game and Interactive Media Design

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Visual Communications	200
Graphic Design	96
Industrial Design	71
Illustration	65
Interior Design	53
Commercial & Advertising Art	25
Commercial Photography	5
Fashion Design	2

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.