eSports and Gaming Certificate

The undergraduate certificate in eSports and Gaming is tailored to help you develop a strong understanding of the structures of what an esports organization might look like and build the groundwork for an understanding of the esports industry.

The eSports and Gaming Certificate focuses on providing you with decision making skills at all levels: tactical, strategic, and competitive. This provides a theoretical framework for understanding the decisions you will need to make as players, competitors, and teams. It will also help you develop the skills to transfer decision making into a career through the principles of sport management. This certificate will help you see the place of sport – traditional and electronic – in our society. Whatever you choose to major in, the skills learned in the eSports and Gaming Certificate will help you to succeed in the gaming arena and in life.

eSports have seen a dramatic rise in participation over the past decade. Not only is there an increase in revenues but in total participation as well. “Global esports revenues will grow to $1.1 billion in 2020, a year-on-year growth of +15.7%, up from $950.6 million in 2019.” (newzoo, 2020)