TL;DR
If I want to join/found educational game startups, which grad school is recommended, CMU or Columbia?
Objective
I want to join the startups related with educational technology, gamification, and so forth. My final goal, definitely, is to run my own startup in educational game industry.
(This is also the reason why I apply to these graduate programs this year!)
Admitted Schools
CMU SV: MS in Software Engineering (Sillicon Valley Campus)
Columbia: MS in Computer Science
Gatech: MS in Computer Science
Pending
UCLA: MS in CS
USC: MS in CS
Cornell: MEng in CS
Pain points
I've never been to US. Everything I heard of was from my friends and drama. I know the popularity of tech startups in Silicon Valley is beyond question. But I want to know if educational game startup is still the case?
The following is my analysis (based on my very very limited understanding of US).
CMU SV
Pros
3 semesters => cheaper tuition fee
Tech startups, Angels, VC are everywhere
Columbia
Pros
CG/CV lab is excellent (e.g. many papers in SIGGRAPH every year). => It may be benificial to game development
Ivy league => I may build connections with business people
There are vibrant art and music activities in New York City => It may be benificial to game development
Cons
2yr program => high tuition fee
less tech startups in NYC
Finally, I surveyed https://angel.co and I found:
# of K12 startups : SF > NYC
# of language learning startups : NYC > SF
Thanks for reading my long post. Welcome to any advice from you guys!