How should University work world wise?
Just to add, the Get To Work approach could also still provide a seperate neighbourhood for Dorms, like Get To Work provided as well. But we could build our own Dorms anywhere.
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"luthienrising;c-16582251" wrote:
I reaaaaaallly want Sims not to have to move to go to university, and I feel like Sims 4 is set up to make that possible. In real life, people may go to university and live and live at home to save money. They may go to university later in life when they have their own family (<-- it me, next winter, if all goes well!). I've always been annoyed in previous university packs that the university experience was limited to living in a dorm or frat/sorority house. The option I picked felt the closest to what I want: A "university" town that my Sims might live in but could attend university while living in a different world too.
It's not realistic to expect a married student to spend all the time at University by himself/herself; with a University type world you could bring your spouse and children and they can go to their work/school from there. Or you can commute to campus; it could be similar to the GTW careers where you can either follow your Sim to campus or send him/her alone if you want to focus on another member of the family.
I agree that with the way Sims 4 is set up, you can have "commuter" students who doh't live on campus. Another idea might be having two-year "certificate" programs, maybe for students who've already completed a degree so have all the general education under their belt. So you'd need a certain number of units to graduate the first time through, but maybe half as many units for subsequent visits (say your Sim went into Athletics but decides to return for Education to be a PE teacher after they're too old to play their sport).
I'd also like to add alternative learning processes: online learning, study from home (similar to the work from home careers from CL and now the new gardening career in Seasons), perhaps improvement in high school and elementary school educations with the return of private schools (shorter school day but more intensive homework), homeschool options like the "study from home", and an active day care career to care for toddlers.
