The amount of applications on courses related to online gaming has surged by 10 percent lately, according to sources from Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Punjab.

120 million is the number of online gamers in India before PUBG overtook the country last year. There is no clear count of how many people have been turned into gamers because of it, however, the wave probably has guided a lot of players into trying out gaming courses.

The rise in popularity of gaming-related courses

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Game development courses are getting popular

According to a report from Google, online gaming in India will grow even more and become a giant industry with three hundred million people in 2021. This surge in demand has influenced many universities and academies to launch programs on design, multimedia and graphics. People pick this because they like to play video games, the head of LPU’s School of Design said. It is also a surprise that the number of female applicants is almost equal to the number of male applicants. There would be more females in the video game industry now.

Professor Ravi said that they are going to replicate the process in India. The game has definitely drawn attention from easily impressionable youngsters by its new and unique gameplay, and with it, more and more people registering on game design, a highly profitable trade. There are a lot of applicants now for the school of gaming.

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The game has definitely drawn attention from easily impressionable youngsters by its new and unique gameplay, and with it, more and more people registering on game design, a highly profitable trade.

We can attribute the ride in this part of the industry on PUGB's success and without it, mobile games would definitely be not nearly as popular.