For the third consecutive year, the University of Malta’s Institute of Digital Games has been ranked as one of the top graduate schools in the world by The Princeton Review.
Ranked in 17th spot, the institute has been constantly improving its position in these rankings and is one of the few graduate colleges to make the list from outside the US. The full lists are posted at Top Schools for Game Design 2019.
Institute director Georgios N. Yannakakis said it was great to see the research at the getting the attention it deserves.
“Working with key players in the industry, such as Ubisoft, and with key research institutions in Europe, via EU funded projects, our students are able to practice their training on Artificial Intelligence on significant real world problems.
“We’re a multi-disciplinary institute educating graduate students from philosophy and digital humanities, all the way to artificial intelligence and machine learning and aim for our students to be unique creative thinkers that can contribute to the video game industry and video game research, and the interconnections of the two,” he said.
The Princeton Review chose the schools for its top game design program lists this year based on a survey it conducted in 2018 of administrators at 150 institutions that offer game design courses, majors, or degree programs. Surveyed schools were in the US, Canada and Europe.
The survey collected information about the schools' game design programs in four areas: academics, faculty, technology, and career prospects. In all, more than 40 data points were analysed to tally the lists.
The Princeton Review's reporting partner for this project, PC Gamer (a monthly magazine published by Future plc, has a feature on the ranking lists in its May issue.
The Princeton Review developed its “Top Game Design Schools" project in 2009 with assistance from a national advisory board that helped design the project survey ranking list methodology. Board members included administrators and faculty from respected game design programmes, and professionals from some of the top gaming companies.