Majoring in video games? A new wave of degrees underscores the pressures on colleges
In The News Piece in USA Today
Sept. 1, 2024
Shalin Jyotishi was quoted in a USA Today article on how colleges are creating new degrees in fields like AI and social media influencing to meet shifting enrollment interests and the evolving needs of the workforce.
The University of Delaware, where Gomez-Sanchez is a student, is one of many colleges and universities embracing new programs tailored to pushing students into the multibillion-dollar field of online gaming and esports (the school just graduated its first cohort of about two dozen students).
Majors like hers are part of a broader wave of less conventional, avant-garde majors, in specialties such as artificial intelligence, that are taking root in American higher education, as colleges grapple with changes in the economy and a shrinking pool of students.