Corsair Esports

Esports at UMass Dartmouth

Welcome to Corsair Esports! With 9 teams and over 200 UMassD students, staff, and alumni in the Corsair Esports umbrella, there are endless opportunities to build your skills, network, and leadership traits in one of UMass Dartmouth's largest student-run organizations and one of the fastest-growing industries internationally. 

Press start

UMassD students and alumni interested in joining the Esports club are encouraged to join the team's Discord server. To play competitively, players must be a current UMassD student with a minimum 2.0 grade point average. 

Game over? 

The time commitment is as much or as little as you want, as long as it's within healthy terms and doesn't get in the way of your education. You can be loosely affiliated and play a couple hours a week or dedicate a lot of time to the game and your team. Like all of college, your experience is what you make of it. 

Esports team captains answer some frequently asked questions

Games played

UMassD fields "A" and "B" teams in:

• League of Legends
• Overwatch 2
• Splatoon
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Valorant
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
• Super Smash Bros.
• Apex Legends

Level up

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Passion for gaming?

A degree at UMass Dartmouth will prepare you for work in the burgeoning esports industry.

Esports has an international viewership north of 600 million people, more than Major League Baseball. Fortune Business Insights valued the industry at $1.45 billion in 2022 and projects growth to $6.75 billion by 2030. 

Major in computer science with a computer game design concentration 

With a concentration in Computer Game Design, you'll explore software technologies relevant to games including programming languages, scripting languages, networks, simulation engines, and multimedia design systems.

Major or minor in animation and game arts

Earn your degree in animation: The BFA for animation and game arts integrates digital art, technology, animation, multimedia, 2D/3D design, web design, and virtual reality.

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