An independent directory of animation degrees in ten countries
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Listed alphabetically by school. This directory is not a ranking — editorial selections are published separately under Top Schools. What we list
San Francisco, CA
Private university in San Francisco whose School of Animation & Visual Effects offers BFA, MA and MFA degrees in animation and visual effects, on campus and online.
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Art academy in Bologna offering first- and second-level Diploma Accademico courses. It lists a two-year second-level course, Cinema e animazione sperimentale.
Verona, Veneto, Italy
State art academy in Verona. Its Scuola di Nuove Tecnologie dell'Arte lists a two-year second-level diploma in Animation & Game Art.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Alberta University of the Arts is a university for art, craft and design in Calgary. Animation is a concentration within its BFA in Studio Art.
Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
Arts University Bournemouth offers a BA (Hons) Animation Production and an MA Animation Production within Bournemouth Film School.
Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland
ATU is a public technological university. Its BA (Hons) in Animation (AU331) is a four-year full-time on-campus degree at the Donegal - Letterkenny campus.
Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland university whose Art & Design programme offers a three-year Bachelor of Design with a major in Animation, Visual Effects and Game Design at City Campus.
Dublin, Ireland
BCFE is a further education college in Dublin. Its animation degree is a two-year BA (Hons) top-up in Visual Media - Animation awarded by the University of Dundee; its other animation course is a Pearson BTEC HNC/HND, which is not a degree.
Hamburg, Germany
BSBI is a private institution with campuses in Germany, France and Spain whose degrees are awarded by UK and US partner universities. Its Hamburg campus delivers a BA (Hons) Animation certified by University for the Creative Arts.
Poole, England, United Kingdom
Bournemouth University teaches computer animation at its National Centre for Computer Animation, with a BA (Hons) in Computer Animation & Visual Effects and master's courses in 3D Computer Animation and Computer Animation & Visual Effects.
Provo, UT
Private university in Provo, Utah, whose Center for Animation links an Animation BFA in the Design department with an Animation and Games emphasis in Computer Science.
Valencia, CA
California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California offers BFA programs in Character Animation and Experimental Animation and an MFA in Experimental Animation through its School of Film/Video.
Fullerton, CA
Public university in Fullerton, California, whose Department of Visual Arts offers BFA concentrations in Entertainment Art/Animation and in Game Art, Animation and Immersive Media.
Long Beach, CA
Public university in Long Beach, California, whose School of Art offers a BFA in Art with an Option in Animation, entered by portfolio review.
Orange, CA
Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in Orange, California offers a BFA in Animation and Visual Effects with 2D animation, 3D animation and visual effects areas of study.
Detroit, MI
Private art and design college in Detroit offering BFA, MFA and MA degrees, including a BFA in Animation.
Chicago, IL
Private college in Chicago that offers a BA in Animation and Computer Graphics with four named concentrations.
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Montréal university whose Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, in the Faculty of Fine Arts, offers a BFA with a Major in Film Animation at the Sir George Williams campus.
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Curtin is an Australian university listed with TEQSA. It teaches an Animation, Visual Effects and Virtual Production major inside the three-year Bachelor of Digital Creative Industries on its Perth campus.
Chicago, IL
Private university in Chicago whose Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media offers animation degrees at the bachelor's and master's level, taught in person.