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NYU To Offer Video Game Degree Fall 09

NYU will be offering degrees in the degn and development of video games starting fall 2009. Load up on Mountain Dew, kids, it's time to get your learn on.The NYU Game Center, launching in fall 2009, will make NYU the first New York City college to offer such a degree, and one of the few in the country.

"It will do a lot to attract new students to New York and raise the city's profile as a center for gaming," said Center for an Urban Future deputy director Tara Colton, who recently called out New York City for lagging behind its competition in tapping into the videogame market.Drawing from a private $1 million contribution, and a $200,000 Rockefeller grant, the center will initially be modest in scale. NYU plans to offer ten to twelve students the chance to choose from 70 courses in game degn and development next year, with a two-year masters program set to launch in 2010.

NYU Launching Videogame Degree Next Fall

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