Princeton Review sez Parsons is a Top Graduate Game Design School!

The Princeton Review did a survey, as they typically enjoy doing, and guess what? Game design academics and administrators think Parsons is among the top 18 graduate game design schools! Wow!

First, we’d like to thank our excellent games track faculty Nick Fortugno and Colleen Macklin. We also want to acknowledge our close institutional bonds to Games for Change and the Institute of Play. And just… oh, wow, gosh, thank you! You really love us! You really really love us!

*ahem* … They also included local rival NYU Game Center in the list, for some reason, which is weird because I thought they weren’t going to start their grad program until this Fall semester? How can people rate a program that hasn’t even started yet? Fortunately, I’m tactful enough not to make a big deal of it, and surely I wouldn’t dare to suggest they bribed and influenced the jury with those tasty brioche sandwiches they have at their events — oh man, the roast beef just melts in your mouth. I mean, if Princeton Review ever did a “Top Roast Beef at Game Design Schools” list, you can bet I’d rate NYU right at the very top.

(I do wish to acknowledge the strength and competency of the Game Center MFA program — look, I’ll even link to it — there are some very smart and amazing people there, and you’ll get a fantastic education. That said, we are positioned as a institutional rival to NYU, and some light teasing is really just that.)