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Video Game Design Schools
within 500 miles of Kansas City, MO
American School of Business
Sullivan College of Technology and Design
The Illinois Institute of Art-Schaumburg
The Art Institutes International Minnesota
The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago
Milwaukee Area Technical College
ITT Technical Institute-Little Rock
Draughons Junior College
Lakeshore Technical College
Rogers State University
Westwood College-O'Hare Airport
Saint Paul College - A Community and Technical College
Capella University
Brown Mackie College-Hopkinsville
Jefferson Community and Technical College
International Academy of Design and Technology
Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City
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Video Game Design Schools near Kansas City
Kansas City, MO (population: 454,520) has twenty-nine video game design schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. Indiana Wesleyan University, the highest ranked school in this group with a video game design program, has a total student population of 15,345. It is the 227th highest ranked school in the USA and the 10th highest in the state of Indiana (#1 is Indiana University-Bloomington). To learn more about video game design programs in Kansas City, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of video game design professors at Indiana Wesleyan University such as Ryan Miller, Kory Pence, and Daniel Pocock.
Video Game Design students from Kansas City 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. In fact, in the Kansas City-KS area alone, there are 4,390 employed computer software engineers, systems software earning an average salary of $77,500. Computer software engineers, applications in this area earn $77,900/yr and there are 4,120 employed.
Kansas City lies in Jackson county, which is one of the 39 counties in Missouri. Overall, the Kansas City-KS area has 988,100 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $20.79/hr average worker wage, and a $43,240 average annual salary. Thus, about 4.165 out of every 1000 jobs in Kansas City are held by computer software engineers, applications, and 4.440/1000 are held by computer software engineers, systems software.
Of the 29 video game design schools with a 500-mile radius of Kansas City, only 6 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago comes out as the most expensive ($28,726/yr) for video game design students, with Lewis and Clark Community College as the lowest, reported at only $5,268/yr.
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Cities Near Kansas City
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Kansas City |
| North Kansas City | MO | - | 1 | 17.668 | 0 | 1.0 miles |
| Parkville | MO | - | 1 | 24.2346 | 91 | 8.8 miles |
| Independence | MO | 110,030 | 5 | 14.6026 | 91 | 10.9 miles |
| Blue Springs | MO | 57,147 | 1 | 22.3674 | 5 | 16.6 miles |
| Lees Summit | MO | - | 1 | 10.817 | 19 | 16.7 miles |
| Lenexa | KS | 49,185 | 2 | 9.677 | 29 | 17.0 miles |
| Olathe | KS | 125,326 | 3 | 26.6113 | 75 | 21.2 miles |
| Lawrence | KS | 92,060 | 4 | 30.1334 | 36 | 39.7 miles |
| Atchison | KS | - | 2 | 13.325 | 58 | 43.3 miles |
| Saint Joseph | MO | 76,371 | 4 | 37.3685 | 160 | 46.6 miles |
| Ottawa | KS | - | 1 | 45.4994 | 36 | 52.1 miles |
| Topeka | KS | 124,629 | 5 | 27.0429 | 163 | 61.5 miles |
| Sedalia | MO | - | 2 | 20.9991 | 46 | 76.7 miles |
| Fort Scott | KS | - | 1 | 19.5238 | 38 | 89.0 miles |
| Iola | KS | - | 1 | 14.0674 | 83 | 94.6 miles |