USC’s game-design graduate program now has more women than men

Men make up 80 percent of the people working on games today, but women may represent a majority of the next wave of highly trained developers and designers.

The University of Southern California’s Interactive Media and Game Division program for graduate students is now primarily women, according to a report in the L.A. Times. This is a big change for an industry that has slowly tried to make itself more welcoming to a wider variety of people. Yet big publishers still often look behind the times and out of touch with their products. But with USC’s gaming graduate program admitting 12 women compared to seven men in 2015, game developers can get a little more in touch by turning to women who are entering the industry.