Starting
Sept 2025
Audience
16-18
Study mode
Full time
Level
Level 3
This is a career-focused qualification with industry endorsement.
The course enables learners to gain underpinning knowledge, develop technical and transferable skills, and offers experience in a variety of different sections of the esports industry.
This qualification is intended for post-16 learners wanting to progress directly to employment in the esports industry and other related industries. Additionally, the breadth of optional content in this qualification allows learners to widen their opportunities to progress to several different higher education courses.
- Unit 1: Introduction to Esports
- Unit 2: Esports Skills, Strategies and Analysis
- Unit 3: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in the Esports Industry
- Unit 4: Health, Wellbeing and Fitness for Esports Players
- Unit 5: Esports Events.
Internally-assessed units use a grading scale of Distinction (D), Merit (M), Pass (P), and Unclassified (U). All mandatory and optional units contribute proportionately to the overall qualification grade.
17 units comprising of Esports Skills, Strategies and Analysis, Esports Event.
You will need to have GCSE Maths, English Language and two additional subjects at grade 4 (C) or above.
As part of the application process you will also be asked to explain why you want to study this course, so that we can ensure any course offer made aligns to your career goals.
The primary focus of the Pearson BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate in Esports is to progress to employment across a range of roles within esports
