Overview
This unique degree mirrors the games development industry, giving you the chance to work with game design students in a studio environment to develop computer games and graphics software. The multidisciplinary, industry-focused nature of this degree is the only one of its kind in Australia.
In final year in the flagship project, you'll have an opportunity work with game design students to create or modify a game to enhance its capabilities, incorporating digital graphics, animation, sound, video, photographs and images.
Delivered in a IT and software development context, you will learn specialized skills in games and graphics programming.
Studies are set in the broader context of information technology, computer science and software engineering, making graduates qualified to work in the games industry, as well as the IT industry more generally.
Why study games and graphics programming at RMIT?
- Melbourne is home to long-established games companies, such as Tantalus Media, Torus Games, Firemonkeys, and Firelight Technologies, independent augmented reality company Plattar, and small game development studios. It is also home to award-winning animation and VFX companies like Iloura, which has worked on Hollywood blockbusters like Mad Max: Fury Road and The Spongebob Movie, and Blackmagic Design, which produces special effects and compositing software.
- RMIT is among the world’s top 100 universities for computer science and information systems (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2018).
Career
Graduates typically work in the games and computer graphics industries, or the general IT industry.
On completion of this degree, you will have acquired significant specialist technical skills, equipping you for a career in games and graphics development, as well as more general skills including software development and programming, understanding of computer systems,, preparing you for roles in the general IT and computer industry.
This provides entry into industry as games developers and programmers, graphics programmers, and web and software developers.
The types of careers this qualification leads to may include:
- games programming
- special FX, graphics, virtual reality programming
- robotics and simulation
- web programming
- mainstream IT industry.
You must have successfully completed an Australian Year 12 (or equivalent senior secondary school qualification) with a minimum 65% average (check calculator below).
Equivalent qualifications may also include completion of the RMIT Foundation Studies program or a recognized post secondary diploma in the relevant discipline with the required grades.
Meeting the minimum academic requirements does not guarantee entry. Your application will still need to be assessed and accepted.
If you don't meet the entry requirements, there may be other RMIT programs you are eligible for that can lead you to your preferred program.
