2025 Best Game & Interactive Media Design Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina

2 Colleges in North Carolina

106 Associate Degrees

Game & Interactive Media Design is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #183 most popular associate degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Game & Interactive Media Design Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 106 associate degrees in game & interactive media design during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to game & interactive media design students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of game & interactive media design students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized game & interactive media design related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for game & interactive media design students working on their associate degree.

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When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Game & Interactive Media Design Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.