Seeking advice how to rotational play with University and other households.

I usually complete the university degree, but you can set up a house in Britechester for your university sims.

I've also seen people set up a boarding school type of dorm for university students and aspiring university students.

When Dylan and Zeph went to Foxbury, I had them move into Tidal Tower, and I continued to play them until they finished their degree. My standard rotation is normally four sim weeks or one season set for 28 days.

When my sim is at a uni I stop aging for everyone and don't rotate. That's the only way it works for me. Sims can get easily suspended if you don't play them while they are enrolled.

I'm rotating with 10 families, when I have students study from home, I switch families on Friday about 5 pm because of uni. So they have all finished their terms on Friday, but don't enroll until I play the family again.
When there are some students in different families I sometimes have them enroll in a dorm together. First the student of the family that is to be played and then all the others who are waiting for their turn to enroll again. Then I play them at uni untill all have got their degrees.

If they’re enrolled while you’re not playing them, you can’t guarantee their success. So I don’t have them re-enroll at the end of each term. You can have them live off campus like I do (it’s easier to teleport to class from Gibbs Hill, for example) or you can use dorms and just move them temporarily to another lot in between terms when they need to enroll again. It takes at least a week depending on when they enroll because sometimes an extra day gets eaten up waiting for a term to start.

They lose scholarships when they don’t re-enroll immediately but not the Merit one, from my experience. It’s so cheap to begin with, this doesn’t matter to me.

(When the term ends at 6pm, you get grades and are asked if you want to re-enroll. Some people miraculously remember to save their game just before this magic hour, and they apparently are confident enough in their grades that they will switch households before that happens, avoiding the prompt to re-enroll. Played sims do not re-enroll automatically, so they are on hold until you play that household again, scholarships intact. This is a great strategy in theory but I am not comfortable with doing it this way. You might like it.)

The final term works a bit differently if you have multiple students in the same household and they go to different schools. If they all graduate the same day, you can’t attend graduations from both schools because they happen so close together timingwise and you can’t be in 2 places at once. This doesn’t keep them from graduating but it means they won’t get their graduation picture. So I stagger their enrollment dates on the final term so they each graduate on a different day. I’ve had 2 students be able attend at the same school, though you have to pay attention because it can happen in different time slots and just bring both sims there when you get the notification the first one is starting. Keep in mind that this final rotation is longer when/if you stagger enrollment, plus the extra graduation day and they get their diploma directly in their inventory at 6pm that evening, IIRC. I’m hesitant to move on until I see that.

I've turned the university housing to residential so the students can live there in between terms. So I'll play them through a term and then I don't re-enroll them until I play that household again. I also have multiple students in a household but I don't have to enroll them all at the same time. Some of them may just work part-time jobs while the others are enrolled in classes. I play with aging off and age sims when I want to so I don't have to worry about anyone aging up before I'm ready for them to.

I agree. Rotating on Friday before six p.m. is the way to go about it.

I put four students through university in my rotational save. They lived in a regular house in Britechester. Two went to Britechester and two went to Foxbury. I made sure to rotate on the last day of the term before their grades came in, so around 5pm since the term ends at 6. It worked fine for me, and living on a residential lot instead of in the dorms was easier since they could just teleport to class like they do with work.

Like someone else said, if you have students from different schools living together you won’t be able to attend both graduation ceremonies. I figured this would happen so I wasn’t too upset about it but in the future if I do this again I’ll probably stagger their enrollment for the last term.