Good News! Colleges Now Offer E-Sports Degrees So You Can Become A Professional Gamer

Are you a gaming junkie who cannot get his hands off the mouse? If you’ve been wishing you could make your passion into a full-time career, here is your chance to make your dream come true. Well, the good news is, some of the schools in the U.K. and U.S. are offering a degree in e-sports for all you gaming enthusiasts.

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Reportedly, the course not only teaches gaming but it also teaches the business behind e-sports so you get to learn the technical, as well as the business aspect of gaming. A group of students are already playing a first-person shooter video game in a sleek new digital studio as their introduction to the degree. Becker College in Massachusetts is one of the colleges that is offering a degree for someone who wants to become a professional gamer.

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Talking to NY Post, the dean of Becker College’s School of Design and Technology said:

“It’s no longer kids playing games in their basement. The top e-sports players now earn almost as much as the highest-paid stars in traditional sports like golf or tennis.”

Matt Huxley, a lecturer at Staffordshire University’s Digital Institute London said learning about e-sports was akin to studying sports management.

“People are unaware of the industry that goes behind e-sports. If you were to go and study to be a director of football, you’re not playing football, you’re learning the business behind how (player) transfers work, how you run a stadium and all those kind of operational things.”

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Last year, the University of Staffordshire launched its Bachelor’s and Master’s program in e-sports to teach students marketing and management skills required in the gaming industry. The university is now expanding its program to London. Schools in Singapore and China are also offering courses in e-sports since there has been strong growth in the gaming sector.

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If you are done playing gaming tournaments at your local cyber cafe then this is your chance to enhance your skills and study e-sports, or competitive multiplayer video gaming. E-sports tournaments have already gained renown as major events among professional gamers who battle it out to win prize money and the ultimate championship.

E-sports are also set to be a medal event at the Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines in November, this year.

Well, if you are intrigued by the idea of playing video games for a living and having a degree in e-sports then this is your chance. Get set go!

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