Bachelor of Science in Esports Management

Bachelor of Science in Esports Management

The Bachelor of Science in Esports Management focuses on the business side of this fast-growing industry. The global esports industry is growing at a rate of 40% a year and is expected to top $1.5 billion dollars (US) in revenue by 2020 and a global audience of over 580 million. With growth comes opportunities in the form of demand for professionals with the right mix of education, passion, and experience. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Esports Management learn how to plan and execute small and large scale events utilizing the latest in streaming technology, develop business plans to develop teams, create online communities, and promote events through digital technology. Esports Management students will also explore the culture of esports, its audience and fan base, and four dominant game genres that make up the industry. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Esports Management will be taught through traditional face-to-face to classes with a potential for hybrid classes, for appropriate courses.

Esports Management Advisory Board

For more information email: Alan.Ritacco@becker.edu

Learning Outcomes

• Communication: Demonstrate effective written and oral communication including informed arguments, persuasion, synthesize complex data, and concepts.
• Context: Demonstrate comfort with an ability to effectively operate in: ambiguity, complexity, uncertainty and change. Students will be adept at situational awareness. Students understand the historical context of their culture and they will view the world from a global lens acknowledging the diversity of cultures and values. Students demonstrate propositional thinking; they will test and iterate on ideas/solutions based upon feedback and learn from their own failures.
• Quantitative: Students use quantitative and analytical methods to address unstructured business problems.
• Ethics: Students demonstrate ability to evaluate decisions based on an awareness of relevant stakeholders in the creation of sustainable social, environmental, and economic value.
• Cognitive Flexibility: Students demonstrate mastery of various thinking modes, notably analytic, synthetic, convergent, divergent, creative, and critical, and when to employ each type. Student demonstrate awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses and will seek continual improvements. Student demonstrate both self and social awareness and management to effectively play various roles on an interdisciplinary team from leader to contributor to participant (role fluidity). These skills are essential for all leadership and management roles.
• Value Creation: Students identify, create, shape, and capture value through understanding economic models and the reality of industry disruption cycles.