10 good reasons to train and to title you in videogames

You finish the selectivity, you love video games, but you have to choose your future ... Did you know that you can devote to video games? Did you know that 11,420 jobs are created each year in the video game industry? We bring you ten tips to choose well the race and why the U-tad is a good choice for it.

The nightmare of the selectivity and the 2nd year of high school has ended, and with the final note in hand it is time to make a decision: What is the next step in your studies? The paths to follow are multiple and it is likely that you already have a first idea in mind, but the decision will end up taking over the next few weeks and is one of the important: it is likely that your professional future begins with the choice you make in the next days.

Next, we give you 10 tips so that you can correctly choose the path you are going to follow.

1. That the career you choose suits the industry
   If you are going to specialize in something, make sure you are on track and that the race is going to boost your goal. U-Tad guarantees that one of the distinguishing marks in its teaching is in the specialization of the profiles demanded by the industry itself. The objective of the teachers is to apply different current trends very required in the professional market. For this, and for example, the students of the Degree in Software Engineering have three different specialization itineraries: Immersive systems and videogames, data engineering and cybersecurity and graphic programming in order to cover these needs.

2. Look at the prizes
   A good way to know the category of a career is in the awards that their students get throughout their training. Speaking of video games, this center has numerous awards in recent years. The PlayStation Award in 2017 gave the best game of the press to Greyfall , a prize that won in 2016 Intruders Hide & Seek with the game of the year of the Sony event and the Gaming Pitch of Austin Texas, becoming the first Spanish videogame to receive said award. Two Dimensions signed a double to the best university game in the Gamelab of 2016 and the Fun & Serious of 2015.

3. Labor exit and job exchange
   The good thing about choosing a University Center is access to your job bank and all the advantages thanks to agreements with companies in the sector. The U-Tad has agreements with more than 500 companies in the sector , and ensure that the high employability of its students is one of the main guarantees and recognition of the center's training. The students, as explained by the university itself, have worked in Spanish and foreign companies in the categories of Microsoft, Amazon, Big Data, Indra, Vodafone, Rockstar North, Ubisoft, Mediaset, King, Tequila, Gameloft, Anima Kitchent, Double Negative , MPC, among others.

4. Teachers: doctors and professionals from the industry
   The teachers and the contacts you make are imperative for you to choose. It is a universal principle that the teacher has to be good for the student to be better. See that the teachers are of quality and with a name in the sector. U-Tad has professors who promote a work model based on practice , with doctors and professionals from the videogame industry who make available their years of experience in the sector. The teaching of the center is formed by active workers of the videogame industry and qualified to apply workshops and laboratories for students to reach the specializations most in demand in the sector.

5. Training, education and training
   If you think you know everything, you do not know anything. In life it is best to learn as much as possible of everything and who knows, you still discover that you are a programmer when you study design. The U-Tad has different degrees of digital design, animation, videogames and software engineering to develop projects to work together. With the present training is bet by mixing specialties so that each student can know first hand all the phases and elements that exist when making a game. It is a process in which all students are involved in the areas of work and helps them understand the different elements involved in each specialty.

6. Technology: high performance programs and equipment
   You need to be able to access the latest generation technology. One of the guarantees of U-Tad is that its students learn with the same tools that professionals in the videogame industry use. For this, they have the support of firms such as Adobe , Unity , Epic Games , Amazon , Microsoft or Nvidia , with more than 800 individual workstations with the most current technology in which to work and study, 500 different software licenses and a laboratory of virtual reality and augmented reality in which to give free rein to these technologies.

7. Events, competitions and events of the center
   Invitations to presentations, events with brands and companies, networking in its purest state. The U-Tad University Center participates in different events and competitions throughout the year. Participates in the PlayStation Awards, the Microsoft Datathon or the European Cybersecurity Challenge, but also organizes its own events in which students can unleash their knowledge as the ESVR virtual reality, the Data & Cloud Meeting Day dedicated to Cloud Computing and the Big Data or the Company Day, in which 50 companies from the sector go to the classrooms to meet with students to cover their professional future.

8. Agreements, practices, exchanges
   Having a door to the international market to expand horizons is essential. The university has agreements with more than 500 companies for employment and internships among which are King , Tequila , Ubisoft , Rockstar North , Vodafone, Mediaset or Microsoft. Beyond the internships, students can also take advantage of the Erasmus Plus agreement and the various international bilateral agreements with universities in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Lithuania, Mexico, Peru, Australia, Korea, China or Norway.

9. Master and postgraduate classes
   Great professionals from the world of videogames have passed through Spain. Throughout the last years, many personalities of the videogame industry have gone through U-Tad to share their knowledge with the students of the center. Among others, Alistair Hope from Creative Assembly, Brie Code and Aleissia Laidacker from Ubisoft, Jane Hartwell from Dreamworks and Daniel Martín Peixe from Disney. The outputs of the postgraduate course also help students to specialize in new areas of learning and put all their knowledge into practice to make their own video game come true .

10. The campus or facilities
    You will spend many hours studying, working, rendering and designing. In the end it will be the factor that you will see the most day after day. Although the U-tad is not in the center of the city, it is in La Rozas, Madrid, where you can enjoy more space and tranquility, not to mention more affordable rentals for those who come from outside. The U-Tad campus has 10,000 square meters of pure technology, 2,400 square meters of artistic facilities and a wide variety of spaces to study, investigate, work or rest. There is an area for sports, cafeteria or different classrooms available for the activities of the students themselves.