115 Game Design and 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.

A major in Media Studies will provide you with essential skills in oral, visual and written communications. You will gain proficiency in critical thinking and social media, some of the top skills that employers seek in any career field. The program balances practical media skills with a solid academic path.

The Bachelor of Arts in Gaming and Interactive Media Program at Felician University educates students in the necessary skills, knowledge, as well as aesthetic and critical sensibilities, to effectively communicate ideas through video games and related interactive media.

This Program is a creative mix of Animation & Motion Design disciplines. The purpose of animation is to entertain and may also inform, while the purpose of motion design is informative and may also entertain.

The BA in Game Design at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE) prepares students to create immersive and interactive digital experiences. The programme blends storytelling, visual design, technology, and game development fundamentals, giving you the skills to turn creative ideas into playable worlds.

This program is unique to the midlands campus as no other educational provider offers a program combining both animation and illustration at the undergraduate level in Ireland. Graduates of the BA (Hons) in Animation and Illustration will have the capacity to apply their knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of illustration and principles of animation to a broad range of areas within the animation and illustration sector in Ireland and internationally.

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).

Our BA (Hons) Games Design and Development degree is a comprehensive course that is tailored to equip you with the essential skills and knowledge needed to thrive in the dynamic games design industry. You will develop an understanding of how players interact with game systems and what motivates them, as well as using game engines to test your ideas out.

We are launching our Game Creation (Hons) degree course in September 2026. The BA (Hons) Game Creation at Kingston School of Art is not a typical game design course. Inspired by the spirit of early creators, it prepares you to broadly understand, apply and experience all aspects of game creation, from ideation and design to development and deployment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Level up your skills in SCAD’s Interactive Design and Game Development program, ranked among the best by The Princeton Review. Access cutting-edge AR/VR labs, win top gaming competitions, and launch your career at industry giants like Apple, EA, and Microsoft. Turn your passion into playable experiences!