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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday November 17, 2006 @11:08AM 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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Comparison by Anonymous Coward · 2006-11-17 11:32 · Score: 5, Insightful

Lets see. Video games have been out for a while. Most of the programmers are Comp Sci degree holders. So you can do Game Programming with a CS degree, but can you do Comp Sci with a Game Programming degree?

Most people have multiple careers. Choose wisely.