• The University of Hertfordshire offers a MA in Games Art and Design with a duration of 1 year.
  • The program is a course-based and delivered on-campus.
  • The program is available on a full-time (1 year) and part-time (2 years) basis.
  • Ranked 1st in the UK as Top Games Development School (10th worldwide) and 1st for Games Design & Development Production Excellence (Rookies World School Rankings 2020).
  • The MA Games Art and Design degree allow students to develop their Games Art and Design skills and knowledge to a professional level.
  • Students will produce a commercial-standard personal portfolio that reflects the forefront of current practices in approach, style, and vision.
  • The current game art and design practitioner is likely to become a specialist in one area, such as character modeling, environment creation, lighting, animating, etc. 
  • Some of the modules students will study are:
    • Creative Economies
    • Major Study: Games Art and Design
    • Research and Enquiry
    • Practice 1: Media
    • Practice 2: Media
    • Media Discourses
  • This award fuses technical knowledge of real-time rendering with the aesthetic decisions and traditional skills students will need as a games artist.
  • Graduates work for most major games' companies including BAFTA-winning UK games studio Creative Assembly, Frontier, Splash Damage, Guerrilla Games, Mediatonic Games, and Rare.
  • The student-faculty ratio is 4:5.
  • According to payscale, the average salary goes up to 58,000 USD.