Akihabara News (Tokyo) – An esports high school will launch in Shibuya with support from NTT’s competitive gaming division, NTTe-Sports, and Japanese pro football club Tokyo Verdy beginning in April.
The Esports Koto Gakuin, which translates to “Esports High School” in English, will offer intensive esports training in popular games, centered around genres such as first-person shooters, third-person shooters, real-time strategy games, and multiplayer online battle arenas.
In addition to esports training, it will also ensure that students of the school can receive strong general education from the standard Japan curriculum for students who wish to enter universities after graduation.
Students accepted to the high school will be entitled to top-of-the-line PC gaming rigs, with forty Galleria XA7C-R37 PCs supplied with Intel Core i7-11700 processors and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 graphics cards.
The processors and graphics cards are valued at approximately ¥50,000 (US$440) and ¥110,000 (US$970) respectively.
For the time being, tuition rates have not been revealed.
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