Bachelor's degree in Video Game Design and Development (Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre - CITM) 48 months Undergraduate Programme By Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) |TopUniversities

Programme overview

Main Subject

Communication and Media Studies

Degree

Other

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

With bachelor’s degree in Video Game Design and Development you will create, program and implement video games and interactive digital applications for a range of platforms and devices. You will develop all the skills to create interactive experiences with solid technological and scientific foundations, including programming, game design, gamification, concept art, modelling and 2D and 3D animation. With all these skills, you will create unique experiences, not just for the entertainment industry but also for the health, education or automotive sectors, for example.

By the end of the bachelor's degree, you will have developed multidisciplinary video game projects, both individually and in groups. You will have acquired extensive knowledge of the market, mastered the keys to entrepreneurship, management and dissemination, and cultivated leadership skills and knowledge about financing and monetisation specific to the sector. In addition, you will have established direct contact with leading companies in the industry.

This program is held at the Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre (CITM).


Programme overview

Main Subject

Communication and Media Studies

Degree

Other

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

With bachelor’s degree in Video Game Design and Development you will create, program and implement video games and interactive digital applications for a range of platforms and devices. You will develop all the skills to create interactive experiences with solid technological and scientific foundations, including programming, game design, gamification, concept art, modelling and 2D and 3D animation. With all these skills, you will create unique experiences, not just for the entertainment industry but also for the health, education or automotive sectors, for example.

By the end of the bachelor's degree, you will have developed multidisciplinary video game projects, both individually and in groups. You will have acquired extensive knowledge of the market, mastered the keys to entrepreneurship, management and dissemination, and cultivated leadership skills and knowledge about financing and monetisation specific to the sector. In addition, you will have established direct contact with leading companies in the industry.

This program is held at the Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre (CITM).


Admission Requirements

Secondary students from UE and countries with reciprocity agreements

Students from the education systems of EU member states or any other country that has signed a reciprocity agreement with Spain may apply for admission directly, without the need to sit the PAU, provided they meet the academic requirements in force in their own education systems to attend university.

These students must have adequate knowledge of the language in which the courses will be taught. The Spanish National Distance Education University (UNED) is responsible for verifying these admission requirements.

Students with started bachelor's degree abroad
For the students who have started a bachelor's degree in a foreign country (not completed) and want to continue their studies in the university, the way to apply is different depending on the number of credits susceptible to be validated for the school where they want to do the transfer: 

  • Students who can validate at least 30 ECTS credits must apply for the admission directly in the school of UPC where they want to continue their studies. These students don't need to do the pre-enrolment. They should validate at least 30 ECTS of compulsory subjects from the studies where they want to apply for admission. The specific number of places availables for this way are responsibility of the school. More information in the schools of UPC.
  • Students who validate fewer than 30 ECTS must do the regular pre-enrolment but applying only to the school that has made them such recognition and they have to submit the certificate validation study issued by this center.
  • Students who can't validate any credit, can access to the university through the regular pre-enrolment process for students coming from abroad.


Other foreign secondary students


The students who have completed upper secondary school in a foreign country have different ways to apply, depending if they have a residence in Spain, from which country are coming and if this one has an agreement with Spain.

4 Years
Sep

Tuition fees

Domestic
6,900 EUR
International
6,900 EUR

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