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A Master's In CS or a Master's In Game Programming?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the career-choices dept.

Rustcycle asks: "I'm attending the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, which has just announced that they are offering a Master's Degree in their Games and Media Integration (GMI) program. There is a fair amount of overlap between the GMI curriculum and the CS courses, so I'm considering a switch in degrees. If you were hiring MS grads outside the game industry for visualization work, am I worth more to you with the more specialized program or would you be more interested in me if I had more exposure? Within the gaming industry, how much does a specialized degree compel a company to hire a recent grad?"

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  1. discrete math by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yup. You definitely don't want to use loud math in a game. It's very distracting.

  2. Re:Nope by OG · · Score: 5, Funny
    Passion is the strongest dye on the planet and it stains everything that someone does.


    Yeah, just turn on a blacklight in a room at a Motel 6 for proof.
  3. Re:I say stick with the CS by Glonoinha · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd agree with you, but for the simple fact that when a surgeon says to a doctor 'I'm a surgeon' - the doctor doesn't laugh in his face.

    That said - if you are going for an advanced degree, go MS/CS.

    --
    Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
  4. Re:Get the CS degree by Broken+scope · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm using a thing in my colleges degree to get a BS in game design and a MS in CS. In case i prove to be a complete creative failure in the industry and add nothing new, I can still throw myself into a corporate hell hole to survive.

    --
    You mad
  5. Re:Get the CS degree by Zadaz · · Score: 3, Funny

    If he leaves for EA he gets what's coming to him.

  6. Re:I say stick with the CS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh you goddamned Full Sail kids.

    I'm not sure who annoyed me more when I was in Orlando... the Rollins kids tracking snobbery into Stardust or you guys wrecking Open mic nights at Big Daddy's.

    Worst memory ever... some half drunk cyberpunk droning on and on at me about how he "worked down to the metal" while his roommate showed off his "talent" slapping the low B on his 5 string bass.

    The look on his face when I told him (the buddy) that there were actually four other strings to play.

    "Not when you play Korn!", he replied.

    I rest my case.