Methodology & sources

GG Scholar tracks 405 US college esports programs in 48 states: 328 varsity and 77 club. Every figure on the site comes from one of two places, and each school page links to both.

Esports programs and scholarships

Program details — program level, start year, titles fielded, conference or league, facility and scholarship terms — come from each school's official esports or athletics pages, last reviewed 2026-10-10. Where an official page was unavailable we used press coverage and say so on the school's page.

We only show scholarship amounts a school publishes, labelled with the year of the source. Programs that offer awards without stating an amount are marked "amount varies"; programs with no published terms are marked "not published". We never estimate an award.

Varsity and club programs

Every program is labelled with its level:

• Varsity: the university runs or formally sponsors the program, through athletics, student affairs or an academic unit, typically with paid staff or a coach and recruited rosters. These are the programs that can offer esports scholarships.
• Club: a student-run organization or club-sports team. Club teams often compete in the same collegiate leagues, but they rarely offer scholarships and rosters are usually decided by student tryouts.

We list club programs at large universities because students search for them and deserve an honest answer about what exists. Club programs are badged on every card and page, and the directory can be filtered by level. We include only programs with a current competitive team. Programs that were discontinued, such as Saint Louis University's varsity team cut in 2024, are excluded.

Cost, admissions, outcomes and demographics

Campus figures come from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent institution-level release, retrieved 2026-10-10), which is public-domain federal data:

• Average net price: average yearly cost after grants and scholarships for students receiving aid.
• Acceptance rate: share of applicants admitted. Open-admission schools have no rate.
• Graduation rate: share of first-time, full-time students completing within 150% of normal time. For two-year colleges this is the completion rate for programs shorter than four years (three years for an associate degree).
• Median earnings: median earnings of students 10 years after entering the school.
• Median debt: median federal loan debt of graduates.
• Demographics: race/ethnicity, women, first-generation and Pell-recipient shares of undergraduates.

Images

Campus and city photos come from Wikimedia Commons and are credited with photographer and license on each page. School names and logos are trademarks of their institutions and are used to identify them; GG Scholar is not affiliated with any school.

Corrections

Scholarship terms change every season. If you run or play for a program and something is out of date, send the correct information and a link to the official source. We review corrections against the source before publishing.

Submit a program

Run a varsity or club esports program we don't list yet? Send the school name, a link to the official program page and any published scholarship terms.

Reuse

The compiled dataset is available as JSON and CSV under CC BY 4.0. Please credit GG Scholar and link to the school page you cite.