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Video Game Design Schools near Raleigh

Raleigh, NC (population: 421,938) has fifty-five video game design schools within a 500-mile radius of its city center. University of Pennsylvania, the highest ranked school in this group with a video 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.

Video Game Design students from Raleigh 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 Raleigh-Cary area alone, there are 2,490 employed computer software engineers, systems software earning an average salary of $87,960. Computer software engineers, applications in this area earn $85,590/yr and there are 4,230 employed.

Raleigh lies in Wake county, which is one of the 64 counties in North Carolina. Overall, the Raleigh-Cary area has 499,330 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $20.85/hr average worker wage, and a $43,370 average annual salary. Thus, about 8.474 out of every 1000 jobs in Raleigh are held by computer software engineers, applications, and 4.992/1000 are held by computer software engineers, systems software.

Of the 55 video game design schools with a 500-mile radius of Raleigh, only 8 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Institute of Washington comes out as the most expensive ($42,518/yr) for video game design students, with Carroll Community College as the lowest, reported at only $4,498/yr.

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Name	State	Population	# of Schools	Avg School Rank	Total Programs	Distance from Raleigh
Cary	NC	145,939	1	22.8054	14	8.3 miles
Durham	NC	235,337	9	27.0185	371	17.9 miles
Chapel Hill	NC	53,800	1	88.0971	148	22.6 miles
Wilson	NC	49,786	3	25.177	101	42.0 miles
Burlington	NC	53,389	3	40.9051	223	47.8 miles
Rocky Mount	NC	57,428	2	10.9274	84	48.6 miles
Fayetteville	NC	177,632	7	29.3341	376	53.6 miles
Tarboro	NC	-	1	20.0774	40	63.2 miles
Greensboro	NC	259,523	7	44.9987	387	67.9 miles
Weldon	NC	-	1	13.6824	51	72.8 miles
Greenville	NC	85,963	10	31.6955	630	74.0 miles
Wentworth	NC	-	1	11.7821	42	74.1 miles
High Point	NC	105,064	3	31.8326	88	75.9 miles
Alberta	VA	-	1	15.5248	32	84.2 miles
Pembroke	NC	-	1	53.5737	73	84.4 miles
Laurinburg	NC	-	1	18.8047	40	85.4 miles
Martinsville	VA	-	1	12.8903	37	90.6 miles
Winston Salem	NC	-	7	32.3218	230	90.8 miles
Misenheimer	NC	-	1	21.9215	70	94.4 miles