Best unis for game design and animation?

Can anyone give any insights into both the industry prospects and the best unis/ colleges reputationally- and equally any to avoid.
Has anyone joined on a foundation degree with no previous experience/ portfolio? There are no local colleges which do game design to get initial software experience and build a specific portfolio.

Hello saju21,
At Bournemouth University, we offer four courses that hopefully fit what you are describing. Follow the list, we only offer one course which requires a portfolio for first year entry (no portfolio requirement for foundation year entry).
See below for the course pages and entry requirements:
Alternatively, we also offer 8 different courses within the "Computing & Informatics" department however, they are more technical than artsy. Feel free to take a look at the department courses if you are interested: Computing & Informatics Department
I hope this helps breakdown our requirements and help you understand how universities might break it down equally.
If you have any other questions I look forward to helping answer some more 😁
Li - BU Student Rep

Hello it's me again (I have search criteria saved for games-related threads....)
My university picks were DMU, Norwich, Falmouth, Abertay and UCA Farnham. Of those I attended interviews for DMU, Farnham and Falmouth, received offers from those 3 plus Abertay and withdrew from Norwich (Received offers from the others at that point and Norwich was bottom of my list). All of these were for Games Art/Computer Arts courses.
Other universities that have good success rates: Staffordshire, Bournemouth. I think if I had my time again I would've applied to both of these over Norwich and Farnham... but that's just me.
I also went to open days for Teesside and Hertfordshire but decided against applying to both. Teesside had fairly poor facilities and unenthusiastic teaching staff when I visited and Hertfordshire was more of an animation course than a Game Art course - but that might appeal to you.
Also worth knowing I applied to Uni and attended open days in 2019 and started at DMU in Sept 2020. Bad year to go to university. But it means all of my experiences with these universities is now ~4/5 years old and they may have had course changes/facilities changes since.
What I actually did was go to DMU - it was midlands, relatively cheap to live, the course was good & has good history. It's one of the longer-running Game Art courses, it has had grads since '08 or so.
The best collection of DMU Game Art student work: https://www.artstation.com/gameartdmu - this also lets you look through the profiles of people who made these student projects... so you can check out who's now in industry

Can anyone give any insights into both the industry prospects and the best unis/ colleges reputationally- and equally any to avoid.
Has anyone joined on a foundation degree with no previous experience/ portfolio? There are no local colleges which do game design to get initial software experience and build a specific portfolio.

Can anyone give any insights into both the industry prospects and the best unis/ colleges reputationally- and equally any to avoid.
Has anyone joined on a foundation degree with no previous experience/ portfolio? There are no local colleges which do game design to get initial software experience and build a specific portfolio.