Game Courses

The longest running , game specific courses, are probably Ballyfermot and Carlow. As far as I know. Someone else might wish to correct this.

Usually colleges do surveys of graduate destinations but I doubt they make it public!

Aphra.

Ballyfermot CGHND graduate 2006. Now a designer at Microsoft Lionhead by way of a Masters degree at Brunel University.

Anyone else want to contribute to an unofficial tally?

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Most of the people here in Carlow did work experience in England & America. This year is Carlows first graduates, so I’m guessing no one has a job yet.[/quote:bb2f6fd185]

Not the case. Two of the guys are currently working for Microsoft Ireland. Another two have gone into the business / financial computing field and I know another guy is continuing from where he left off (on work experience) as an engine programmer in France. As for the rest, I’d be confident that they have found work also.

Edit: I find it interesting (and encouraging) that some of the graduates have found work in fields other than the games industry. Who says that a games degree has to be a one track career choice ?

My advice to them is come to Canada specifically Vancouver. They know how to do game studios and software development. The talent level of the people in the industry out here is really bloody high, which is awesome hopefully help t raise my game to the next level.

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Pardon my French, but thats a bit…shit, isn’t it?
It should be transparent to show how successful the courses are :roll:

I think they do it more for marketing purposes…they do make parts public like how many grads in total got jobs etc…but not sure they would make all the stats public – esp. for small courses when it is easy to tell who people are. Anyway I could be wrong, places vary.

Aphra.

Agreed, I think its a marketing exercise. I know when I was studying in college, a few months after graduation you’d get a call from the college to ask if you were working. Even if you were working in a non-related field (eg. deli counter at Spar), you’d go down on the list as another grad currently employed, largely to aid positive statistics.

Agreed, I think its a marketing exercise. I know when I was studying in college, a few months after graduation you’d get a call from the college to ask if you were working. Even if you were working in a non-related field (eg. deli counter at Spar), you’d go down on the list as another grad currently employed, largely to aid positive statistics.[/quote:7dedc8a661]Yup, that was exactly my experience with UL. I never sent that survey back.