Brigham Young University

Provo, UTPrivate nonprofit NWCCUBYU Center for Animation (Computer Science Department and Design Department)

Brigham Young University's Center for Animation brings together the Animation BFA in the Design Department and the BS in Computer Science with an Animation and Games Emphasis in the Computer Science Department. Both programs are limited enrollment, with admission by portfolio review after pre-major courses, and students collaborate each year on an animated film and a game.

Game degrees at Brigham Young University

1 program verified (1 bachelor's). Dedicated game degrees and officially named game concentrations only; the school may offer related courses or minors that are not degrees.

Computer Science: Animation and Games Emphasis

Bachelor'sBSNamed concentration

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Concentration in Computer Science (BS) — Animation and Games Emphasis

Game Programming

Provo, UT

On campus

Regular campus attendance

Portfolio required

Duration not verified

Tuition: $3,548 per semester · Undergraduate, Latter-day Saint, 12.0+ credit hours, Fall/Winter semester · 2026-2027

No upcoming verified deadline

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Department, studios and facilities

As the school describes them. Facilities are campus resources unless the school states that online students can use them.

BYU Center for Animation (Computer Science Department and Design Department)Source: animation.byu.edu · verified October 12, 2026
Computer Science DepartmentSource: animation.byu.edu · verified October 12, 2026

CG animation lab (1130/1134 Talmage Building)Main animation lab with Cintiq Pro workstations and high-core render machines; software includes Maya, Houdini, RenderMan, Unreal Engine 5, Nuke, Mari and ZBrush.Source: animation.byu.edu · verified October 12, 2026
Video game project labAnimation lab next to 1130/1134 Talmage primarily used for video game projects.Source: animation.byu.edu · verified October 12, 2026

Student work

Official showcases of student games and projects, linked from the school's own pages. We link to them; we do not copy or rate student work.

BYU Animation games Source: animation.byu.edu · verified October 12, 2026

Accreditation

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU)
Institutional accreditation — accredited · since September 1, 1923
Recognized by: U.S. Department of Education
Source: ope.ed.gov · verified October 12, 2026

Institutional accreditation covers the whole institution. Programmatic accreditation (for example NASAD for an art and design unit) is shown on a program page only when the school names it for that program.

Offerings we reviewed but do not list

This directory lists dedicated game degrees and officially named game concentrations. These offerings were checked against official pages and fall outside that scope (minors, certificates, degrees without a named game pathway, esports).

Animation BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation)Animation degree without an officially named game track; game production appears only as a capstone choice.Source: animation.byu.edu · verified October 12, 2026

Institution

Official name: Brigham Young University
Control: Private nonprofit
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 12, 2026
Main location: Main Campus, Provo, UT 84602
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 12, 2026
Students enrolled exclusively in distance education: 799 of 35,074 students (Fall 2023)
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 12, 2026

Sources

Last verified October 12, 2026. Program facts and their sources are on each program page.

animation.byu.edu/about — Official program page, verified October 12, 2026
animation.byu.edu/byugames — Official program page, verified October 12, 2026
animation.byu.edu/facilities — Official program page, verified October 12, 2026
animation.byu.edu/faq — Official program page, verified October 12, 2026
animation.byu.edu/prospectivestudents — Official program page, verified October 12, 2026
IPEDS 2024–25 Institutional Characteristics (HD2024), via College Navigator — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 12, 2026
IPEDS Fall 2023 enrollment by distance-education status (EF2023A_DIST) — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 12, 2026
DAPIP — NWCCU institutional accreditation record (data files downloaded 2026-10-12) — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 12, 2026

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