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Game Design Schools in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA (population: 1,445,993) has seven game design schools within its city limits. University of Pennsylvania, the highest ranked school in the city with a game design program, has a total student population of 24,599. It is the 5th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Pennsylvania.

Game Design students from Philadelphia schools who go on to become video game engineers, game designers, video game designers, game developers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 495,500 people working as computer software engineers, applications alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $90,170. Also, Computer software engineers, systems software make on average $96,620 per year and there are about 385,200 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area alone, there are 5,280 employed computer software engineers, systems software earning an average salary of $100,400. Computer software engineers, applications in this area earn $90,940/yr and there are 6,870 employed.

Philadelphia lies in Philadelphia county, which is one of the 32 counties in Pennsylvania. Overall, the Philadelphia Metropolitan area has 1,832,880 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $23.24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,340 average annual salary. Thus, about 3.747 out of every 1000 jobs in Philadelphia are held by computer software engineers, applications, and 2.882/1000 are held by computer software engineers, systems software.

Of the 7 game design schools in Philadelphia, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Drexel University comes out as the most expensive ($31,832/yr) for game design students, with Temple University as the lowest, reported at only $15,715/yr.

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