US Playstation Magazine, the official SONY PlayStation Magazine in the United States, has credited the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University as being the “Harvard of game-development programs” in the USA.

In a feature article titled “Class in Session,” discussing current, fledgling, and future courses of study in game design and development in academic America, SPIN Magazine says, “Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center is the Harvard of game-development programs; placing grads in internships and jobs at Electronic Arts, Rockstar, Maxis, and Angel Studios. But the program doesn’t focus solely on games.”

What follows then is a quote by ETC Co-director, Don Marinelli, “We value game design and teach game design, but we also think that good game designers are well versed in other interactive media in the same way a good writer is a person of the world,” as well as quote from ETC student Jason Yeung, “The workload is intense, but manageable. It goes in cycles, with heavy pushes occurring just before big deadlines. But from what I know, that’s the way the industry works, too.”