Aussie news entity, The Australian, reports that Queensland academics are "terrified" and somewhat amazed at the rush of enrollments for new degrees in computer games. The academics worry that some students may be misled and may be thinking that they will spend three years finessing their "mad gaming skillz."

The Queensland University of Technology's IT faculty fears that the misinformation is due to a catchy course title - Bachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment. Dean of information technology Simon Kaplan explains:

One of our terrible fears is that we're going to have this cohort of students who imagine that they're going to be allowed to play games 50 hours a week for three years and then be handed a degree... This is something that terrifies us because computer games at university is no more about playing computer games than aeronautics is about flying fighter jets.

I could have possibly been a doctor or lawyer (but) I just wanted to do something with my life that I would enjoy for a long time, I've always loved playing games and I just thought the next best step was to be making them for a living. I would prefer to create them myself.