Game on
Kickstart your career in esports or get a guaranteed pathway into a second year of study in select degrees with Australia's first Diploma in Esports.
Game on
Kickstart your career in esports or get a guaranteed pathway into a second year of study in select degrees with Australia's first Diploma in Esports.


Highlights
- Learn from educators who have real-world esports expertise.
- Gain an indepth understanding of the esports ecosystem.
- Launch your esports career.
- Develop academic skills for successful study in the degree program.
- Earn a year of study towards your QUT bachelor course.
- Take a creative industries, information technology or business pathway.
Highlights
- Learn from educators who have real-world esports expertise.
- Gain an indepth understanding of the esports ecosystem.
- Launch your esports career.
- Develop academic skills for successful study in the degree program.
- Earn a year of study towards your QUT bachelor course.
- Take a creative industries, information technology or business pathway.
Why choose this course?
Build foundational knowledge and skills related to esports, and how esports as an industry interrelates with the broad fields of information technology, creative industries and business. This course will cover concepts in relation to esports as an emerging billion-dollar industry worldwide, and show you how you can be involved in the coming esports revolution.
As a blended education model, you gain skills online and on-campus in a highly supportive environment. You'll have access to a suite of services designed to help achieve your study goals and advance your career.
Explore this course
This course is the first of its kind in Australia. It provides multiple pathways to further study at QUT in business, creative industries or information technology. As a diploma student, you'll learn in a supportive environment that will prepare you for future academic success. You'll be part of a community with opportunities to make friends, and benefit from:
- state of the art learning spaces
- support from educators who take a real-world focus
- smaller class sizes and more contact hours.
Careers and outcomes
This course covers:
- practical and theoretical realms
- physical and mental health
- pro-athlete attitudes and values
- business strategies
- a range of digital technologies.
You'll graduate prepared for a variety of esports career pathways.
Course articulation
Once you've completed this course, you'll be automatically offered a place in:
- Bachelor of Business
- Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Bachelor of Communication
- Bachelor of Information Technology
- Bachelor of Games and Interactive Environments
To achieve maximum credit for your diploma, you must complete a full creative Industries, information technology or business pathway.
To meet the course requirements of the Diploma in Esports, you must complete:
- Core units (96 credit points) including four esports units (48 credit points) and four units from either Business, or Creative Industries/Communication or Information Technology.
- ATAR/selection rank threshold
- 60.00
These thresholds are the lowest adjusted scores to which QUT made an offer in Semester 1, 2022.
Don't have a ATAR/selection rank?
- Course code
- ES21
- QTAC code
- 420321
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- Kelvin Grove
- 8 - 12 months full-time
- 16 - 24 months part-time
- February and July
Assumed knowledge
Before you start this course, we assume you have sound knowledge of the subject/s listed below. If you don't have the subject knowledge, you can still apply for the course but we strongly encourage you to undertake bridging studies to gain the knowledge:
- English, or Literature, or English and Literature Extension, or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 & 4, C)
Advanced standing
If you have prior studies or work experience, you may be eligible for advanced standing (credit). You can apply for advanced standing once you've been accepted to QUT. If you're in your first semester of study, you must apply for advanced standing within 10 days of receiving your offer.
You'll receive advanced standing for units you study in this course, which means you'll get academic credit towards your QUT bachelor degree.
Deferment
You can defer your offer and postpone the start of your course for one year.
More about deferring your offer
Adjustments to your ATAR/selection rank
Any adjustments you receive to your ATAR or selection rank will be applied to this course.
Find out if you’re eligible for an adjustment to your ATAR or selection rank
Offers we made to school leavers in Semester 1, 2021
420321 Diploma in ESports
As this is a new course, Semester 1, 2021 information is not available.
You can find out more about your fellow students’ backgrounds with this course’s student profile.
Other admission options
If you are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, you may be eligible for admission through our Centralised Assessment Selection Process (CASP).
I completed secondary school in Australia
Minimum English language requirements
Don't have the English language score you need? We can help!
We offer English language programs to improve your English and help you gain entry to this course.
When you apply for this course, we will recommend which English course you should enrol in.
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2023 fees
2023: To Be Announced
2023 fees
2023: To Be Announced
2022 fees
2022: CSP $11,800 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2022 fees
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
Find out more about undergraduate course fees
HECS-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a HECS-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
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