Tripitaka posted this news item in the forum, which I think is good news to post on the site..
"COMPUTER games enthusiasts have new heights to aspire to with Australia's first degree in computer games technology....But the degree is far from three years of playing computer games.
Programming skills, physics, vector calculus, algorithm design and analysis, artificial intelligence, mobile computing and modelling behaviour are all in the textbooks for students enrolled in the La Trobe University course.
Course head Dr John Rankin said the demand for highly skilled computer games programmers was growing fast in Melbourne.
Eight students completed the three-year course last year, but only seven graduated as one was poached before his final exams with an offer he could not refuse."
Read the rest of the article over at News.com.au.
I'm trying to start a list of known universities offering game development courses, so if you know of any, please post them in the thread I made in the forum here. Thanks!