A common dream of many adolescent hard-core gamers is to get past high-school, and enjoy the Utopian world of Higher Education. Thing is, when most kids get there, they discover to their horror that the grass isn't really greener on the other side. You've got more homework, tuition is more expensive, and despite the easily accessible alcohol via the staple college party, your gaming lifestyle isn't really that secure.

If you want to live it good, then this list we found might just be able to help you out.

The Global Gaming League has released a listing of what is in their opinion the top ten best games colleges you'd want to go to if you want to make it big in the gaming industry, or at the least just enjoy a healthy gaming lifestyle during your stay in Higher Education. The colleges were evaluated based on several Factors, namely the size of the student body, its geographical location, student organizations within the college, frequency and number of tournaments and LAN parties, tech-friendliness,  internet connections and curriculum.

• 10 - Full Sail Real World Education - Orlando, Florida
• 09 - University of Michigan, Dearborn Campus - Dearborn, Michigan
• 08 - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus - Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 07 - Georgia Institute Of Technology - Atlanta, Georgia
• 06 - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
• 05 - Digipen Institute of Technology - Redmond, Washington
• 04 - University of California at Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California
• 03 - Rochester Institute of Technology - Rochester, New York
• 02 - Penn State University - State College, Pennsylvania
• 01 - University of Texas, Austin - Austin, Texas

The University of Texas gets top spot for its student body of 50,000 students, its proximity to all the major LAN gaming festivals, its old school and new school arcades,and its blazing fast internet connection. Connecting from your dorm there will get you LAN pings of 30 milliseconds of latency from Texas to the East coast and 40 to the West coast.

So, pick a college, go there, live high on the gaming life, and earn a good chance of getting into the industry.