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Bachelor's degree in Video Game Design and Development (taught in English)
Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre (CITM)
With bachelor’s degree in Video Game Design and Development you will create, program and implement video games and interactive digital applications for a range of platforms and devices. You will develop all the skills to create interactive experiences with solid technological and scientific foundations, including programming, game design, gamification, concept art, modelling and 2D and 3D animation. With all these skills, you will create unique experiences, not just for the entertainment industry but also for the health, education or automotive sectors, for example.
By the end of the bachelor's degree, you will have developed multidisciplinary video game projects, both individually and in groups. You will have acquired extensive knowledge of the market, mastered the keys to entrepreneurship, management and dissemination, and cultivated leadership skills and knowledge about financing and monetisation specific to the sector. In addition, you will have established direct contact with leading companies in the industry.
By the end of the bachelor's degree, you will have developed multidisciplinary video game projects, both individually and in groups. You will have acquired extensive knowledge of the market, mastered the keys to entrepreneurship, management and dissemination, and cultivated leadership skills and knowledge about financing and monetisation specific to the sector. In addition, you will have established direct contact with leading companies in the industry.
With content and teaching made 100% in English and taught in Barcelona.
- Duration
- 4 academic years
- Delivery
- Face-to-face
- Admission mark 2025-2026 academic year
- 5,000
- Language of instruction
- English
Information on language use in the classroom and students’ language rights.
- Fees and grants
- €6480 (academic year)Consult the public fees system based on income (grants and payment options).
- Location
- Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre (CITM)
- Official degree
- Recorded in the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
- Places
- 30
- Pre-enrolment code
- 31083
- Places via a change of degree
- 1
- Admission mark 2025-2026 academic year
- 5,000. Admission mark
- Weighting. University entrance examinations (PAU)
- Weighting. University entrance examinations (PAU)
- Registration and enrolment
- What are the requirements to enrol in a bachelor's degree course?
- CFGS credit transfer
- Consult the university studies search engine of the Universities Channel of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- All documents issued in non-EU countries must be legalised and bear the corresponding apostille.
First course
Second course
Third course
Fourth course
- Communication and Leadership 6
- Data Analysis 6
- Financing and Business Models 6
- Networks and Online Games 6
- 360 Creativity Lab 6
- 3D Environments 6
- Advanced 3D Modelling and Animation 6
- Advanced Business Project 6
- Advanced Sound Design 6
- Advanced Visual Programming 6
- Animation and Stop Motion 6
- Creation Lab 6
- Creative Lab 6
- Data Display 6
- Data Visualisation 6
- Documentary Animation 6
- Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation 6
- Fundamentals of Sound and Sound Design and Editing 6
- Generative Art with Processing 6
- Generative Art with Processing 6
- In-Company Industrial Training 12
- Level Design 6
- Mobile Game Development 6
- Modelling and Advanced 3D Animation 6
- Photogrammetry 6
- Postproduction and Visual Effects 6
- Real Time Narrative 6
- Real-Time Narratives 6
- Serious Game Design 6
- Serious Games Design 6
- Stop Motion 6
- Transmedia Production 6
- Transmedia Production 6
- Virtual Community Management 6
- Bachelor's Thesis 12
- CompulsoryECTS
- OptionalECTS
- ProjectECTS
- Professional opportunities
- Expert in video game programming and interactive virtual environments.
- Expert in developing real-time narrative experiences.
- Application programmer.
- Serious game developer.
- Video game designer.
- Video game producer.
- Product manager at video game studios.
- Technical artist.
- 3D artist.
- 2D and 3D animator for video games and digital content.
- Video game data analyst.
- Quality controller, tester or balancer.
- Gamification and technology consultant.
- Academic calendar
- General academic calendar for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees courses
- Academic regulations
- Academic regulations for bachelor’s degree courses at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
- Language certification and credit recognition
- Queries about language courses and certification
- 18/04/2026 11:00 hface-to-face
- 27/05/2026 18:00 hvirtual
Open day
Bachelor's degree in Video Game Design and Development (taught in English)
- Day
- 18/04/2026
- Time
- 11:00 h
- More information
- face-to-face information session. Registration
- English
Open day
Bachelor's degree in Video Game Design and Development (taught in English)
- Day
- 27/05/2026
- Time
- 18:00 h
- More information
- Virtual information session. Registration