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Samuel van Kiel: Sports and esports sharing a university curriculum

Acknowledging the reality of the current climate, which is still amidst a global health pandemic, schooling and the university experience isn’t perhaps as viable of an option as it previously was. Simply put it cannot be the same as previous years.

However, despite the current conditions, Esports Insider has covered a variety of esports education-related announcements in the last few months. From US developments with Fairfield University, Shenandoah University, and the University of Washington, all the way to initiates at Australia’s Murdoch University campus.

In 2016, the University of California, Irvine was ahead of the trend by becoming the country’s first public university with an esports program alongside announcing its esports hub, the UCI Esports Arena.