46 Animation BA Degree Programs

Our Visual Effects, Video Game & Digital Arts program prepares you for the future of storytelling across film, games, and emerging media. You’ll gain hands-on experience in everything from VFX and 2D/3D animation to game design, creative coding, and immersive art. Master industry tools, explore real-time workflows like Unreal Engine, and collaborate with creatives from across disciplines to bring bold visual worlds to life. Whether you're designing characters, crafting environments, or engineering interactive experiences, you’ll graduate with the skills and portfolio to thrive in a fast-evolving creative industry.

BA (Hons) Animation is an interdisciplinary programme designed to prepare students for careers in the animation, games, and film industries. The course integrates both traditional and cutting-edge techniques, emphasising real-time 2D and 3D visual technologies. With a focus on performance-based animation, character design, and production workflows, students gain hands-on experience in creating animation for various media, from film and television to games.

BSBI, in partnership with the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), offers the BA (Hons) Animation programme, introducing students to the fundamentals of the creative industry and offering the opportunity to launch a career in animation.

Begin your career in illustration and animation with the Illustration Animation BA (Hons) degree course from Kingston University. We are ranked No. 1 in London and in the Top 5 in the UK for Graphic Design* in the Guardian University Guide 2025 (*covers Graphic Design and Illustration Animation).

Learn the visual fundamentals that can bring your creative ideas to life with a BA (Hons) VFX & Animation degree.

Animation is one of the fastest-growing industries worldwide. It has been a huge technological development in the last decade, from traditional 2D hand-drawn to digital 3D animation. In today’s digital world, the application of animation isn’t simply restricted to films. It facilitates exciting career opportunities in various sectors like Advertising, Print media, TV production and Gaming.

Our exciting specialist course will enable you to develop your imaginative and creative skills while giving you a sound knowledge and understanding of animation processes, techniques and critical theory. Commercial animation is a rapidly growing and vibrant industry, encompassing a broad range of rewarding and fascinating creative job opportunities. Our strong emphasis on creative practice will help you to develop your skills in drawing and design, along with the imaginative development and innovation of ideas expressed sequentially. These skills, together with the professional practice aspects of the course, will ensure that you have the confidence and expertise to succeed in the industry, whether as a producer, technician, designer or manager. You’ll also develop the transferable and cognitive skills necessary for lifelong personal and professional development. Throughout the course, there are opportunities for you to take part in national and international competitions and film festivals. Our course is delivered by a large team of experienced animation practitioners, staff and industry visitors, and you’ll work in dedicated specialist animation studios with facilities for blue screen, rostrum animation, CGI, drawing, stop-frame, film, photography, set building, sound and video. Successful animators need to be flexible and able to adapt to changing cultures and new initiatives, and our course seeks to reflect this fluidity. You’ll rapidly develop your own practice in animation, and will be encouraged to work on shared initiatives. Based at our Harrow Campus – home to the Westminster School of Arts and the Westminster School of Media and Communications – you’ll work alongside students from film, photography, music, fashion and journalism, in a unique creative hothouse.

Developed in direct response to industry demand, the animation courses at Pulse College offer a stimulating insight into, and exploration of, the technical and creative skills involved in the diverse forms of animation involved in screen media that range from Hollywood blockbusters, to smaller productions and children’s cartoons.

Bring characters and worlds to life at SCAD, a top-ranked animation program. Master 2D, 3D, and stop-motion animation, digital modeling, rigging, and lighting. With cutting-edge resources and collaborations with industry leaders, you'll refine your style and teamwork skills—preparing for a thriving animation career.

Azusa Pacific University's Bachelor of Arts in Animation and Visual Effects will prepare you to make a difference in a creative and growing industry. Learn to bring characters, creatures, and objects to life in stories you create in this animation degree program with classes covering animation’s many facets and cultivate your narrative techniques with a comprehensive cinematic arts curriculum.

For non-art majors interested in a career in Animation or preparation for graduate study in Animation, the Animation Minor offers broad-based training in this field of art.

Become a skilled and versatile 2D or 3D animator, with a focus on illustration and storytelling, at Cambridge School of Art and turn your creative ideas into a rewarding career in animation and illustration. Our BA (Hons) Animation and Illustration course explores the connections between animation and illustration, helping you to create sequential narratives using a variety of methods – from the latest specialist 2D digital animation, and 3D CGI used in industry and interactive techniques to traditional handmade image-making.

Animation and Game Art are complimentary disciplines that combine creativity with cutting-edge technology and tools. On this exciting joint honours degree, you will have opportunities develop your artistic abilities and enhance your work as you develop your skills in design and practical areas.

Our BA (Hons) Animation is a focussed course aimed at students interested in becoming a professional animator who can work across animated film, TV and related industries. You will work alongside other committed students who are collectively interested in animation production.

The Bachelor of Art Animation and Intermedia option allows students to explore fine art concepts through the use of various technological tools and mediums. Courses are offered in digital Imaging, 3D digital modeling, Video, 2D, and 3D Animation. Combined with a strong foundation of art and art history, the program provides a thorough and broad investigation of critical art issues in a socio-economic, historical, art historical context. Students engage with high-end technological processes and learn skills critical to developing a career in either industry or art.