{"id":26126,"date":"2022-06-06T07:16:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T07:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/are-esports-degrees-worthwhile\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T07:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T07:19:58","slug":"are-esports-degrees-worthwhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/opinion-esports\/are-esports-degrees-worthwhile\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Esports Degrees Worthwhile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For several years, the concept of securing an \u2018esports degree\u2019 has been growing in popularity. However, when we talk about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/industry\/study-esports-at-university\/\">degrees offered<\/a> by traditional colleges and universities, a potential concern starts to surface. Are these institutions offering these degrees simply to <strong>stay connected<\/strong> to emerging industries and \u2018the youth of today\u2019, or are they meaningful, worthwhile, and above all else, relevant?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/opinion\/esports-degrees-worthwhile\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the esports industry becomes increasingly popular, educational institutions are attempting to prepare young people for the future. At the forefront of this push are the many esports degrees offered by colleges and universities around the world. From player-based degrees to esports organizational management qualifications, and from physiotherapy to psychology, esports degrees can be quite diverse. However, we\u2019re here today to discuss whether they\u2019re even worthwhile and to address whether they\u2019re being done properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[577],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26128,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26126\/revisions\/26128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}