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Prepare for a Career Where Work Equals Play

Whether you want to design video games, reconstruct crime scenes or program military simulations, as a gaming degree holder from DeVry, you'll have specialized programming skills that will put you in extremely high demand. Plus, you'll be prepared to choose from a number of exciting careers as a game designer, working on projects that engage the imagination, spark an adrenaline rush or may even contribute to national security. In other words, as a gaming and simulation programming (GSP) professional you'll have so much fun working, you won't be able to imagine doing anything else.

Some of agencies and companies that offer simulation and gaming careers include

• The Army and other government agencies
• Defense companies
• Police forces
• Flight simulation software manufacturers
• Computer consulting firms
• Gaming companies like EA Sports and ESPN
• Design and entertainment studios
• Corporate training companies
• Computing companies like Microsoft
• Automotive design companies

Put Your DeVry Degree to Work in One of Today's Exciting Careers for Game Designers

When you earn your gaming degree from DeVry, you'll be prepared for a number of booming career fields. Here are some examples:

• Game Developer: If you love playing video games, imagine getting paid to create them. As a developer, you'll decide the mission, theme and rules of the game, laying out small sections of the game and devising puzzles for players to solve or enemies to defeat.
• Game Programmer: Using your software engineering skills, you'll search for the most efficient way to control speed and placement of art and sound. Specialties within this field include engine, artificial intelligence, graphics programmers and tool programmers.
• Military Simulation Programmers: Working with other specialists, you'll help analyze, design, integrate and test real-time simulation control systems for aerospace defense and technology training. In this field, you turn combat-style games into military simulations and explore the future of weapon technologies and new battle scenarios.
• Crime Scene Investigation Software Developer: Just like you see on TV, CSI programmers develop technology that helps solve and prevent crime. With sharp perception and mental endurance, your work in this field will give investigators the ability to view a crime from every possible angle through interactive reconstruction programs.
• Corporate Training Software Designer: In this field, you'll create training plans and programs for almost any professional industry from healthcare to technology, providing strategies to ensure that employees are prepared to do their jobs well.

Hone Your Skills as a Game Designer and Get the Career You Want with a Degree from DeVry

Graduates of DeVry's Game and Simulation Programming bachelor's degree program are prepared for all these careers and more! Through a mix of informative classes and hands-on experience, you learn the fundamental concepts, principals, theory and skills that a game designer needs to succeed.

DeVry gaming degree holders will be prepared to develop entertainment software for:

• Console Systems
• Personal Computers
• Handheld digital devices
• Multi-player online games
• Coin-operated arcade games
• Computer-based casino games

DeVry graduates will also be prepared to create simulations used in:

• Crime scene reconstruction
• Education
• Corporate training
• Military training
• Aircraft simulation

DeVry is the university where you can gain the skills, credentials and respect you need to make it big in the programming world. DeVry's success at preparing its students for careers is hard to beat! Check this out.for the past year in all DeVry programs and locations combined, 91% of DeVry graduates in the active job market held positions in their chosen field within 6 months of graduation and earned average entry-level salary of $41,000.

Get into the game - earn your degree at DeVry today and start your career as a game designer tomorrow!

Learn more about how your game and simulation programming degree can be applied in a variety of career fields. Click to download Careers in Game and Simulation Programming fact sheet (PDF) and Careers in Information Systems fact sheet (PDF).

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