DigiPen Institute of Technology’s 150,000 sq. ft. campus features auditoriums, classrooms, and open lab areas with dedicated game production suites, conference rooms, art labs, a music production studio, a ceramics lab, an Academic Support Lab, a Student Affairs Office, a Housing and Residence Life Office, a library, staff and faculty offices, a commercial software engineering research and development lab, a game console software development lab, and a professional kitchen and cafeteria.
In August 2020, DigiPen has expanded into non-contiguous space located within the same business complex named
Willows Commerce Park of our main campus. The expanded facility is located at 9825 Willows Road, Suite 160, and is approximately 15,559 square feet. The facility is located approximately 200 feet away from our main campus. The expansion houses our Library along with additional student computer lab space, six (6) collaboration rooms, multifunction workspaces, lounge areas, and an additional lecture room. As a result of this facility expansion, DigiPen acquires 30 additional parking spaces within the Willows Commerce Park.
Weekly student access to the DigiPen campus is usually from 6 a.m. to midnight, daily. On certain holidays, lab hours are from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Core office hours for the administration staff are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The computer workstations provided at DigiPen are selected to meet or exceed the hardware specifications for required educational software. All computers are on an internal network and have access to printers, servers, and archival media. DigiPen upgrades the computer equipment on a regular basis. Many classrooms are equipped with microphones and either DLP or LCD high-definition projection systems. Presentation materials may be shown on a variety of formats. Specific format concerns or questions will be answered by the IT department.
Classrooms vary in size from a large auditorium accommodating up to 263 students to small classrooms for 12 students. Our two multidisciplinary student game production suites, Edison and Tesla, are 11,000 sq. ft. and 6,500 sq. ft. in respective size and seat 850 in total at workstation table and chair arrangements configured as team spaces. Students specializing as game designers, game programmers, game artists, game musicians, and computer engineers apply and integrate the academic theory from their respective disciplines into projects of varying genres.