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Esports Production

  • Bachelor of Science (with Honours)
  • 3 Years
  • Full-Time
  • September 2027
  • Undergraduate
City Campus
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2026-20272027-2028
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Course summary

Join our BSc Esports Production course in Nottingham and develop the skills to produce high-level esports broadcasts, live events and content.

You’ll focus on broadcast production at the centre of esports. You’ll learn how to plan, produce and deliver live streams, tournaments and studio content, working with professional tools and real production workflows.

The course is delivered through practical workshops and projects, giving you experience of fast-paced, live environments. You’ll build a portfolio that reflects current industry practice.

Key features:

  • Train in Confetti X, a purpose-built esports and broadcast venue

  • Work with professional broadcast systems, studios and live production tech

  • Gain hands-on experience through live projects and industry activity

  • Collaborate across games, media and event production

You’ll study in a specialist esports facility with broadcast studios, streaming setups and live event spaces, giving you direct experience of real tournaments and productions.

You’ll graduate prepared for roles in esports and live production, including broadcast, events, content creation and on-screen talent such as analyst or commentator.

Facilities

You’ll learn, practice and develop your skills in the very best facilities and technology for esports production and other emerging technologies, home to a busy schedule of amateur and professional tournaments, productions and other esports-related events; all of which will offer up unique work experience opportunities for students studying on the course.

Here are just some of the features:

  • A 100-seater 4k sq ft multi-event esports venue and content studio

  • 4k broadcast and content creation infrastructure

  • Virtual live productions with Unreal Engine

  • 10m x 4m 4K LED video wall with LED wings

  • Multiple shoutcaster and analyst studio

  • Multiple streaming cubicles

  • Green screen studio for virtual sets

  • Scrim rooms and private warm-up rooms for competitors

Modules

Course Modules

Year One

  • Introduction To Esports Production (20 credit points)
  • Broadcast Asset Development (20 credit points)
  • Remote Broadcasting (20 credit points)
  • Esports Event Operations (20 credit points)
  • Esports Content Creation (20 credit points)
  • Broadcast Production Technologies (20 credit points)

Year Two

  • Esports Ecosystem (20 credit points)
  • Video Wall Engineering and Content Mapping (20 credit points)
  • Live Esports Broadcast Production Technologies (20 credit points)
  • Esports Production Project (20 credit points)
  • Co Lab: Research, Exploration and Risk-taking (20 credit points)
  • Optional Modules (20 credit points), choose one from:
    Introduction to Live Sound Technologies
    Festival and Music Events Management
    Storyboarding: Visualising the Story, Enhancing the Narrative
    Performance for Motion Capture
    Music Video
    Model Making: Object and Narrative
    Prop Making
    Digital Marketing and Communication

Final Year

  • Industry Briefs (20 credit points)
  • Future Pathways (20 credit points)
  • Final Capstone Project: Preproduction (20 credit points)
  • Final Capstone Project (40 credit points)
  • Emerging Broadcast Production Technologies (20 credit points)

https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/art-and-design/ug/bsc-hons-esports-production?year=2027#module-information

This course is not accepting applications for deferred entry.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • City Campus

Study options

  • Bachelor of Science (with Honours) • Full-Time • 3 Years

Start dates

  • September 2027

Apply by
13 January 2027

This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.

Application codes

Course code:
I600
Institution code:
N91
Campus name:
City Campus
Points of Entry:
Year 1

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How to apply

Apply by
13 January 2027

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
I600
Institution code:
N91
Campus name:
City Campus

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Typical qualification requirements

A level

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)

T Level

We will consider T Levels for entry to this course, either as stand-alone qualifications or in conjunction with other Level 3 qualifications, in accordance with the specified course tariff points.

UCAS Tariff
104-112

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)

Access to HE Diploma

Pass your Access course with 60 credits overall with a minimum of 45 credits at level 3

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level 3 National Diploma and up to two other qualifications.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
DMM

DMM from a BTEC Extended Diploma

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)

104 - 112 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate and up to three other qualifications (one of which must be A-Level equivalent).

A lower offer may be made based on a range of factors, including your background (such as where you live and the school or college you attended), your experiences and individual circumstances (you may have been in care, for example). This is called a contextual offer and we get data from UCAS to make these decisions. NTU offers a student experience like no other, and this approach helps us to find students who have the potential to succeed here, but may have faced barriers that can make it more difficult to access university.

We also consider equivalent qualifications and combinations. Please contact Nottingham Trent University Admissions team for further information.

Contextual admissions

Universities and colleges consider more than grades when assessing applications and may make offers based on a range of criteria. Learn more about contextual offers.

NTU makes contextual offers for this course to give everyone a fair chance to access their chosen degree.

Contextual offers are lower than our standard entry criteria or may be an unconditional offer for courses that require a portfolio. We also take individual circumstances into account when we receive results and may accept grades lower than our published criteria.

We use a range of data from UCAS to make our offers and more information on our approach is available at the link below.

Learn more on the Nottingham Trent University website

Historical entry grades data

This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).

It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

Tuition fees for 2027 entry are yet to be confirmed. As a guide and to enable you to plan your finances, the fees for Home undergraduate students for 2026 are £9790 .The current expectation is that the University may increase this for future and subsequent years of study in line with inflation and as specified by the Government.

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