The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Alabama in Huntsville houses a 30 credit hour Game Design and Development minor that culminates with a working video game. Students will work in teams with assigned roles from Game Designer to Technical Director. The minor is open to most majors, with popular options including the Computer Science BS (CS BS); CS MS and PHD; and Software Engineering MS. A 24 credit hour Entertainment Computing minor is also available. This minor can also be taken as a concentration.
Across programs, students have access to state-of-the-art teaching, research, and production labs in the areas of gaming, entertainment computing, digital forensics, AI, machine learning, and data science. Students may participate in UAH’s Invention to Innovation Center (I²C) Internship in Technology (InTech) program; the Charger Innovation Challenge where designers can create education and training games; and study abroad travel experiences to Politecnico di Torino (Italy), University College (Ireland), and Hanyang University (South Korea).
In fall 2026, UAH plans to launch a new Game Design BS program. This hands-on, multidisciplinary program will explore areas such as animation, psychology of games, communications, sound, coding, art, and the business of games. Students in this program will have access to the everything the CS and Entertainment Computing programs have to offer.
Graduates of the Games and Computer Science programs at UAH have secured roles at places such as Riot Games, DreamWorks, Hasbro, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Blizzard Entertainment, Pixar, Boeing, Apple, Lockheed Martin, Nickelodeon, Disney, Google, Amazon, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SIE), Digital Domain, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Northrop Grumman, Cisco Systems, IBM, Dell, and Topgolf.