Sony Interactive Entertainment Pledges $3 Million Donation to USC Games Program
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Tuesday, September 6, 2022
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Today, USC Games , ranked the #1 North American games program by Princeton Review eleven years running, and Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced a multi-year partnership starting with a $3 million contribution to support the USC Games Gerald A. Lawson Fund with backing from the PlayStation Career Pathways Program.
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- Today, USC Games , ranked the #1 North American games program by Princeton Review eleven years running, and Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced a multi-year partnership starting with a $3 million contribution to support the USC Games Gerald A. Lawson Fund with backing from the PlayStation Career Pathways Program.
- The USC Games Lawson Fund is more than a scholarship, said Tiffany Johnson, senior director and global head of DE&I at Sony Interactive Entertainment.
- USC Games is a flagship collaboration offered jointly by the USC School of Cinematic Arts Interactive Media & Games Division (IMGD) and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Computer Science Department .
- The program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts focuses on both the design and production of interactive media and games.