Minor has seen graduates take up graphics work at Pixar and other California-based animation studios. Students find rewarding software-engineering careers outside Nevada, too. They’re very popular with a lot of companies,” says Minor.
“Our students are stacked up (hired) immediately. Westwood and Konami both have offices in the city, and both have numbers of UNLV computer-science graduates on their teams. Video-game companies are yet another source of employment. NV Energy, the state electricity provider, also brings many of Minor’s students on board.
Clothing retailer Zappos hires UNLV computer-science grads.
Those companies include plenty of others besides the gambling industry. John Minor, Computer Science Associate Professor and Director, School of Computer Science at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV)
