I think your choice should depend what you want to do. One route isn't really better than another one to end up in the games industry, especially not if you end up doing something you don't like. Working in games is very exciting, at least from my point of view when compared to other jobs, yet it also is very often also…
Just a FYI there is no programming major or minor at scad. There is interactive design, that is not programming that is mostly flash based ui and html and stuff like that. They offer one C++ class, its not awesome. C++ 2 has never been run as no one ever signs up for it. IF YOU WANT PROPER PROGRAMMING DO NOT GO TO SCAD.…
200K is a ton of money to spend on an education, especially if it is something so focused as game design. I go to a little private art school in San Jose for almost a quarter of that cost, and the teachers here have industry experience all over the place. The problem is always what are you going to do if you cannot find a…