2025 Best Game & Interactive Media Design Schools in North Carolina
3Colleges in North Carolina
498Game and Interactive Media Design Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in game & interactive media design, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #293 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for game & interactive media design students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 498 degrees in game & interactive media design annually.
Choosing a Great Game & Interactive Media Design School
The game and interactive media design program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Game & Interactive Media Design rankings. We derive our Best Overall Game & Interactive Media Design School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Game & Interactive Media Design Degree Level
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Game & Interactive Media Design Schools in North Carolina list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Game & Interactive Media Design in North Carolina
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the game and interactive media design degree levels they offer.
Top North Carolina Schools in Game and Interactive Media Design
202Game and Interactive Media Design Degrees Awarded
Any student who is interested in game & interactive media design needs to look into Wake Technical Community College. Located in the large suburb of Raleigh, Wake Technical Community College is a public college with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #461 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Wake Technical Community College is a great college overall.
There were approximately 202 game & interactive media design students who graduated with this degree at Wake Technical Community College in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Guilford Technical Community College if you want to pursue a degree in game & interactive media design. Guilford Technical Community College is a large public college located in the large suburb of Jamestown. This college ranks 24th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 25 game & interactive media design students who graduated with this degree at Guilford Technical Community College in the most recent data year.
Get on the right path to the fast-paced, exciting world of video game art and design with this online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
William Peace University is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in game & interactive media design. WPU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Raleigh. This university ranks 74th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 17 game & interactive media design students who graduated with this degree at WPU in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).