Sacramento, CA (population: 475,452) has two video game design schools within its city limits. American River College, the highest ranked school in the city with a video game design program, has a total student population of 35,413. It is the 4784th highest ranked school in the USA and the 450th highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles). To learn more about video game design programs in Sacramento, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of video game design professors at American River College such as Gary Aguilar, Marie Cooley, Daniel Herrera, Gary Herrlinger, Diana Higashi, and Janet Pazdernik.
Video Game Design students from Sacramento schools who go on to become video game designers, game developers, video game developers, video game engineers, 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.
Of the 2 video game design schools in Sacramento, both of them have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Sacramento City College comes out as the most expensive ($6,945/yr) for video game design students, with American River College as the lowest, reported at only $6,669/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Sacramento |
| West Sacramento | CA | 50,542 | 1 | 29.8049 | 4 | 4.4 miles |
| Rancho Cordova | CA | 65,274 | 3 | 17.1477 | 50 | 9.4 miles |
| Laguna | CA | 60,976 | 0 | - | 0 | 10.7 miles |
| Roseville | CA | 121,485 | 4 | 20.0435 | 49 | 16.3 miles |
| Woodland | CA | 56,758 | 0 | - | 0 | 17.9 miles |
| Folsom | CA | 69,994 | 1 | 12.6843 | 55 | 18.9 miles |
| Rocklin | CA | 56,052 | 2 | 36.0056 | 125 | 20.2 miles |
| Fairfield | CA | 104,184 | 9 | 23.8893 | 386 | 38.0 miles |
| Yuba City | CA | 62,588 | 1 | 36.3939 | 5 | 40.2 miles |
| Stockton | CA | 291,422 | 7 | 28.794 | 278 | 42.4 miles |
| Antioch | CA | 102,439 | 2 | 25.0238 | 14 | 43.9 miles |
| Pittsburg | CA | 67,613 | 2 | 20.7913 | 157 | 44.4 miles |
| Napa | CA | 75,759 | 1 | 15.1485 | 56 | 48.7 miles |
| Concord | CA | 122,338 | 7 | 21.1076 | 136 | 50.5 miles |
| Vallejo | CA | 114,029 | 1 | 31.5233 | 11 | 53.4 miles |
| Walnut Creek | CA | 64,055 | 0 | - | 0 | 55.7 miles |
| Salida | CA | - | 2 | 26.0837 | 19 | 63.3 miles |
| Dublin | CA | 46,208 | 3 | 13.8145 | 117 | 63.5 miles |
| Berkeley | CA | 102,237 | 13 | 2.98519 | 59 | 65.1 miles |
| Castro Valley | CA | 65,952 | 0 | - | 0 | 67.6 miles |
| Modesto | CA | 203,882 | 4 | 24.9737 | 137 | 68.2 miles |
| Oakland | CA | 412,612 | 12 | 26.3295 | 321 | 68.7 miles |
| San Leandro | CA | 78,904 | 1 | 29.9223 | 11 | 70.1 miles |
| Alameda | CA | 71,628 | 3 | 11.6549 | 62 | 70.1 miles |
| Sonora | CA | - | 1 | 10.5858 | 57 | 71.6 miles |
| Ceres | CA | 43,443 | 0 | - | 0 | 72.6 miles |
| Union City | CA | 76,462 | 1 | 13.7752 | 0 | 73.5 miles |
| Hayward | CA | 145,517 | 6 | 17.5402 | 239 | 73.5 miles |
| San Francisco | CA | 817,411 | 21 | 17.5697 | 455 | 76.8 miles |
| Fremont | CA | 207,431 | 5 | 26.457 | 262 | 77.5 miles |