You might remember all the times when your parents or relatives tell you to stop playing and do your homework. All the delays in Skyrim or The Witcher 3, just to do some mind maps and projects for geography or history lessons? Well, those days might be gone as gaming now can actually help with your homework.

Becker College $5000 Apex Legends scholarship

Thanks to Becker College’s $5K scholarship, you can earn that much money just by playing Apex Legends.

Apex Legends
Apex Legends is a F2P battle royale game by Respawn Entertainment and EA, now available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One since its release on Feb 4th.

The college offers scholarships where you can team up with 2 esports groups: Helix Esports and Team Genji. The program brings successful applicants up to compete in Apex Legends. In here, you can play games with the potential to win rewards in cash.

Apex Legends
Even if you’re playing Lifeline (which means having rich parents), schools are still expensive and you’ll need the money.

In fact, Becker College has their own Apex Legends team, which assembles earlier this year. Therefore, earning the scholarship not only provide the money but talented gamers can also get a chance to play in an official capacity.

Esports - education, a new friendship?

The Becker college is a unique one that seriously took esports into account. There’s an esports management degree available to study and there’s also Timothy Loew - the esports General Manager of the college. He shared the goal of Becker College, which involves providing pro Apex Legends players the opportunity to combine their in-game talents with a certified level of education.

Apex Legends
You get to play your favorite video game while studying for a degree, what can possibly be better than that?

The institution is showing a brave and unique footstep unlike many other physical sports scholarships in the past. In fact, such scholarships are the more common ones in which have been available in many universities across the United States. Needless to say, this could be the beginning of a nice friendship between esports and education.

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