Ultimately every student has different needs regarding the type and academic rigor of a program, campus culture, as well as cost, lifestyle, and career focus. There is no single opinion that trumps all when it comes to which school is the “best”.

Like any college ranking, ours is not perfect and is open for debate. The criteria we used for the VR/AR rankings consists, in no particular order, of the following: School surveys were emailed in April, 2021 Virtual & Augmented Reality School Rankings What does this mean for the rankings? A given school is scored the same in our rankings for Admissions Selectivity as it was before COVID. This is because many colleges paused using the SAT as part of the admissions process during COVID. Value as it relates to tuition and indebtednessįor the 2022 rankings we have eliminated geographic location as a ranking factor.įor 2022 Admissions Selectivity, we used the same data and ranking scoring as the previous year.Depth and breadth of the program faculty.The criteria we used for the animation rankings consists, in no particular order, of the following: School surveys were emailed in September, 2021 In the instance where we can not obtain information directly from a college program representative, we obtain the necessary information from the college's web site or from other reputable publications.

Our end goal is to provide students and their parents access to ample information so they can make an informed decision about the school they choose to attend and the program they pursue.ĭuring the school year we reach out via email to every school under consideration requesting information about their specific program, as well as their perspective regarding which other school programs they considered to be the most impressive, both nationally and regionally. In some cases we will include non-degree granting schools, when the program’s quality merits inclusion. We consider every degree-granting school of which we are aware, with the exception of two-year community colleges. We started publishing regional and national rankings in 2012 in response to myriad emails from aspiring animators and game designers asking us what the best schools were in the US, a given State, or in a particular area of the country.

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