GYO Score is measuring the college interests of high school esports players.
GYO Score is measuring the college interests of high school esports players.
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GYO Score: 52.6% of high school esports athletes want to major in science

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Parents may worry their kids play video games too much. But 52.6% of high school esports athletes want to pursue a college major in the sciences category, according to a survey by GYO Score, an esports and gaming metrics company.

On top of that, nearly 24.4% of esports athletes are interested in pursuing a college degree in arts or business and finance. This is a surprising conclusion because traditional athletes (football, baseball, and basketball) have been found to pursue these degrees the most.
Thirteen percent of surveyed esports athletes would be interested in a major related to gaming and esports.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.