So, you want to go to college for game design? Where do you go and what's the right choice for you?

Well, you don't have to throw out top-notch traditional schools like Harvard and Yale necessarily. But those schools have been in the business for a long time by teaching academic studies related to the arts, medicine, business and law. If you have a game design major in mind and want a school where all they do is teach students how to best create imaginative games, well here is a starting list for you!

This list was created by the Princeton Review as their best choice of colleges for video game design. Of course, there might be colleges -- even junior colleges and community colleges -- closer to where you live that do a really good of teaching game design. Choose what's right for your variety of needs such as location, cost and specific program!

1. University of Southern California, Interactive Media Division, Los Angeles, Calif.

2. DigiPen Institute of Technology, Redmond, Wash.

3. Drexel University, RePlay (Digital Media & Computer Science), Philadelphia, Pa.

4. Becker College, Game Design and Game Programming, Worcester, Mass.

5. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences, Troy, NY

6. The Art Institute of Vancouver, Game Art & Design/Visual & Games Programming , Vancouver, B.C. (Canada)

7. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Interactive Media and Game Development (IMGD) , Worcester, Mass.

8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab , Cambridge, Mass.

Here are some honorable mention and other worthy schools:

Dartmouth College, Full Sail University, Pace University and the University of North Texas.