Bachelor in Creative Media and Game Technologies

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Annual schedule

The year is divided into several blocks in which you work on projects. In each project, you choose a role that fits your chosen study track.

The study tracks are:

• Design & Production
• Film Visual Effects.
• Programming
• Visual Arts

Below you can see how each year is structured; the courses you will take can be found in the information about the relevant study track.

Year 1

The first year consists of four blocks. The first three cover fundamental skills that build towards tightly defined projects to enhance your knowledge, all supported by lectures and seminars. The fourth block continues this, while you also work in cross-disciplinary teams to develop a game, practicing your skills in a real project and learning how to work in a small development team.

Year 2

Year 2 consists of four blocks. You spend two blocks further developing your advanced skills in your chosen role. In the other two blocks, you work in small multidisciplinary teams building game projects, supported by lectures and seminars. You also can go on exchange for one semester

Year 3

This year you specialize in your chosen role either working in a multidisciplinary team on a year-long game project or in a smaller specialist team supporting the game project. You also can go on exchange for one semester.

Year 4

In the graduation year, you work on two projects that may include:

• completing a portfolio project individually or in a group (always assessed individually);
• working at a company (with a project deliverable);
• developing a business plan and designing a product (to start your own company, supported by our entrepreneurship start-up specialists);
• taking part in a one-semester exchange program at one of our partner universities.

Or combine the two projects and work on a year-long project, or go on a year-long internship.

We also encourage our students to go abroad during their studies. In year 4, students participate in projects at companies around the world.

Pre-masters

BUas offers its own pre-master's program Strategic Business Management and Marketing (SBM). If your academic results are good, you will be offered the opportunity to attend this pre-master’s program in your fourth year. Successful completion of this track will give you direct access, after Breda University of Applied Sciences, to various Master of Science programs in business-related studies in management and marketing at several partner universities. A few examples are the universities of Maastricht, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam. In this way, it will be possible for you to earn an academic master's degree within five years or, after having completed an accelerated three-year track, even within four years.

After your fourth year, you can also opt for a pre-master’s program at a Dutch research university to gain direct access to their master’s programs.

Study load

Games is a varied, challenging program:

• You will be working in teams for many hours per week – it is a full-time course of study;
• You will be backed up by industry knowledge and theory;
• You will build a portfolio, and then step straight into games industry studios or start your own company.

We have high standards. We are looking for people who:

• Understand the roles that they are asking to study;
• Are engaged with the games industry from a developer’s viewpoint, not only as a player;
• Are already showing their determination by starting to learn in their own time.

Get a Job

You most likely start in assistant positions and work your way up to higher positions, such as lead designer, lead programmer, art director, or producer, to name a few.

Portfolio market

The games industry has an urgent need for high-quality specialists. When you enter the labor market, you will see that employers are not so much interested in degrees, but in practical results.

When applying for a job, you could be selected based on the portfolio which you will compile throughout your study.

Career examples

Alternative careers for programmers

• Companies involved in Virtual Reality
• Companies that visualize data and have a need for creative technicians
• Simulations (such as driving simulations)
• Companies developing products for medical applications

Alternative opportunities for visual artists

• Agencies that specialize in visualization, such as architecture
• Animation studios
• Film and television productions
• Advertising agencies

Alternative opportunities for Design & Production

• Game journalism
• Game criticism
• Positions in interactive/branching story writing
• Production roles in any digital media industry

• Small-scale education, lecturers from the international industry
• Project-driven education with real-life projects in our DataLab
• Fully English-taught degree program in an international classroom