Vega : BCIS | Game Design and Development Degree
Develop the singular skillset required to thrive in one of the most exciting, lucrative and fastest-growing industries on the planet.
The IIE BCIS degree in Game Design and Development equips students with the necessary skills to pursue a career in creating gaming content for everything from home consoles and computers to newly established platforms like mobile and emerging tech such as VR, AR and wearables. A graduate will be qualified in both the business and creative aspects of a vocation in designing and developing games; gamification applications; business applications and immersive content for new technologies.
The industry-focused 3-year qualification provides students with the knowledge and experience required to create both two-dimensional and three-dimensional games across a multitude of platforms. Students examine a holistic range of factors relevant to the gaming industry whilst gaining a broad understanding of the entire computer game development supply chain. Students graduate with an industry-ready portfolio exhibited at the annual student showcase and follow this with a month-long internship in a leading professional game design studio.
While the BCIS in Game Design and Development provides the creative and technical skills for designing and developing games, the programme is crucially contextualised within brand building, affording students the opportunity to integrate their creative nous with invaluable business acumen. This is particularly important in a nascent industry where success often comes via entrepreneurial know-how. In second and third year students participate in brand challenges where they collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams to solve real-world problems. By third year students are able to groom their interest in either game design or game development by selecting discipline-relevant projects in order to create unique portfolios. By the end of the third year, a student will have the ability to conceptualise, design, develop and implement their own games, creating a lucrative entrepreneurial opportunity.
*Students will need to invest in a PC with the necessary hardware and software. Requirements are available from a Vega Contact Navigator.
Entry requirements
A National Senior Certificate (NSC) with Degree admission- A minimum of 30% for English coupled with a minimum of 50% for four x DESIGNATED NSC subjects (This excludes LO which is a 10 credit subject); OR
A National Certificate (Vocational) (NC(V)) with Degree admission – A minimum of 60% in English on either First Additional Language or Home Language level AND Mathematics or Mathematical Literacy AND Life Orientation , with a minimum of 70% in the four vocational subjects is required; OR
A Senior Certificate (SC) (with endorsement) or equivalent; OR
Alternatively, a Higher Certificate, an Advanced Certificate, 240 or 360 credit Diploma in a cognate field may satisfy the minimum admission requirements to degree studies.
NSC: students are required to have Mathematics at least at level 4 (50 – 59%) or Mathematical Literacy at level 7 (80 – 100%). For those students who have Mathematics at level 3 (40 – 49%) or Mathematical Literacy at levels 4, 5 or 6 (50 – 79%), an intermediate level (38 or above) in the NBT QL – AQL assessment is required. Students who have Mathematics or Mathematical Literacy at levels lower than the above would not be considered; OR,
SC: endorsement (or complete or conditional exemption) with at least 40% for Mathematics on the HG; OR at least 50% for Mathematics on the SG. For those not meeting the requirements as set out above, a minimum of an intermediate (38 or above) level in the NBT QL- AQL assessment is required.
General requirements for undergraduate degrees:
All applicants for The IIE undergraduate degree studies, including international students, are required to write the Academic and Quantitative Literacy (AQL) – National Benchmark Test (NBT), unless they:
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- have attained the age of 23 before or during the first year of registration; OR
- have been admitted on the basis of mature age; OR
- are accessing a degree with a higher certificate, 240 or 360 credit diploma or advanced certificate; OR
- have previously been admitted to degree studies elsewhere;OR
- have enrolled in the distance mode on a programme- the writing of the NBT AQL test is recommended, but not compulsory.
A student’s Academic Literacy (AL) score of the AQL – NBT is used for placement in student support programmes and does not replace the admission requirements for a specific degree programme.
The provisions of this section do not apply to qualifications in which Introduction to Scholarship A (ITSA) and/or Introduction to Scholarship B (ITSB) are modules which bear credits. In these cases normal assessment and completion rules apply.
For those qualifications in which ITSA/ITSB are not credit bearing modules any student who does not provide a verified AQL-NBT score of 64 or higher PRIOR to registration is automatically registered in these modules and will be billed for them where relevant. Any student who supplies a verified score of 64 or higher within three weeks of the start of the first semester will then be deregistered from these modules and the billing will be reversed. Students who complete ITSA and ITSB will receive a Short Learning Programme certificate for the modules.
The onus is on students to make use of the support available to benefit from these modules. The details of this support will be communicated by the campus or administrative team responsible for the student support on their qualification.
Tuition
R87 600 Instalment Fee
(10 Monthly Instalments)
R12 000 Deposit
(Applicable to both fees)
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Application Fee for 2024 (non-refundable)
Standard Application Fee – R800