Study Games at Staffordshire University

Study at the number 1 educational institution for Games and turn your passion into a career in the biggest entertainment industry in the world.

At Staffordshire University, we have years of experience in giving graduates the tools to burst into the gaming industry. Our professional grade design, production and programming facilities, alongside our connections and work experience opportunities have seen graduates build careers in companies like Rockstar North, Playground Games and Ubisoft. We’re also home to an Epic Games Centre and are the first university to offer degrees sponsored by TeamSpeak.

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If you’re passionate about Esports or games community management, our practical, industry-focused degrees can you prepare you for your first job in industry. The skills and knowledge learnt on our degrees will prepare you for careers in community management, social media, PR and events, in roles such as journalist, content creator, shoutcaster and production manager.

Esports

Get ahead of the game in one of the fastest-growing markets in the world with our undergraduate and postgraduate esports courses.

Games PR and Community Management

Burst into the world of video games with a degree in Games PR and Community Management.

Our Games Arts and Visual Effects degrees are designed to give you the hands-on experience, techniques and skills needed to succeed in industry. Graduates from these degrees leave with an extensive portfolio and are highly successful in securing employment at some of the best-known names in entertainment, in roles including visual effects producers, 3D artists, technical directors and animators.

CGI and Visual Effects

Want to gain the technical skills to create awe-inspiring effects for film, television, games and advertising? Try our CGI and Visual Effects degree.

Concept Art for Games and Film

This course is ideal if you're interested in a career in game arts and concept creation, and have strong drawing and painting skills.

Games Art

With our Games Art degree, you will be able to get to grips with everything from environment and character creation to props, vehicle and weapon design.

Animation

If you are drawn to the thought of giving life to inanimate objects using 2D, 3D, Stop Motion and Games Animation - this course is for you

Our games design degrees explore the creative and technical aspects of games production, giving you the necessary skills to develop, produce and publish games titles. Graduates from these degrees often go on to employment with industry giants and in the last few years they've worked with Rockstar Games, Naughty Dog, Codemasters and Jagex, among others, in roles such as games or gameplay designer, 3D artist, animator and visual designers.

Augmented and Virtual Realities

This new course allows you to specialise in the design and development of worlds and 3D assets.

Computer Gameplay Design and Production

If you love the idea of developing exciting and experimental games, this degree may be for you.

Computer Games Design

Ideal if you're interested in becoming a 3D artist, animator or games designer.

If you aspire to set up your own game studio or to work as a programmer in an established studio, our games development and programming degrees are the ones for you. Discover how to create exciting games and learn the skills needed to work in the games industry as a gameplay programmer or indie developer. Graduates from our development and programming courses are currently working in companies including Activision, EA, SEGA, Rockstar Games, Rebellion, Red Kite Games, Frontier, Traveller’s Tales, and Codemasters.

Computer Games Development

If you aspire to set up your own game studio or to work as a programmer in an established studio, look no further than our Computer Games Development degree.

Computer Games Programming

Aimed at aspiring programmers, our Computer Games Programming degree will show you how to create exciting games with professional hardware and software tools.

Computer Games Design and Programming

Run in affiliation with games industry body TIGA, this course will give you the skills you need for a career in games development focused around using multiple games technologies

State-of-the-art facilities

Games and Concept Art Labs

Explore your artistic creativity on the latest games development software in our Games and Concept Art Labs. Our industry quality workstations come complete with Wacom Intuos Pro mediums or 13QHD Cintiq tablets.

PlayStation Academic Development Programme

Our membership of this programme means you will have access to cutting edge professional PlayStation software (SDK) and development hardware, including PS4 dev kits.

Multiplatform Newsrooms

Housing 76 iMacs complete with all the software necessary for multi-platform Journalism (Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition).

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Ryan Jackson
BA (Hons) Games Art

To anyone considering the Games Art course at Staffs I couldn’t recommend it more. The lecturers are great – they always push you to do the best and the subject matter is so interesting. If you want to be a character artist, there’s modules there. It goes beyond just the modules – there’s life drawing classes and there’s such a variety of different things you can be learning.

Adam Fortune
BA (Hons) Esports

In my first semester here I have created a society around our course, helped at Esports taster events at the Uni, met industry professionals, been invited to London for meetings and just genuinely been involved in as many things Esports related as I can.

Anna Ljungberg
Codemasters

Staffordshire University taught me both professional and personal skills. With the great placement year I had the opportunity to gain real industry experience, which meant I gained a lot of knowledge both involving programming but also professional and personal skills that I could bring back, and become a much better student.

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Largest games university in the UK

Best Educational Institution for Games

13th Best Institution in the world

Discover our courses

State-of-the-art facilities

Games and Concept Art Labs

PlayStation Academic Development Programme

Multiplatform Newsrooms

Discover our courses

State-of-the-art facilities

Epic Games Lab

Esports Hub

Motion Capture Studio

VR, AR and Mixed Reality Lab

Games and Concept Art Labs

Global Games Jam

PlayStation Academic Development Programme

Multiplatform Newsrooms