EA, is it too late to reconsider the expense of uni? I wonder if they could make it more expensive in the patch if we’re all bothered enough by this. It would’ve been nice to have it feel realistic. I wonder if there’ll be a workaround without using a mod.

I feel the same. Given how easy it is to make money already, it kind makes the student loans useless unless you've created a new sim

Does the Value of the dorm impact tuition costs?Mine will be living in a huge dorm. I am hoping tuition reflects how much the place costs.

I don't know how much the fees are, but I'll be annoyed if they're too low. Need more expensive things to spend simoleons on, not more cheap stuff. As said above, what's the point of student loans then?

"CK213;c-17310951" wrote:Does the Value of the dorm impact tuition costs?Mine will be living in a huge dorm. I am hoping tuition reflects how much the place costs.I was wondering the same. It seems that it matters, some dorms are more expensive than others.I think somebody will make a mod for it, but if not, I'm going to hide a dozen of 15000 $ violins in my dorms. :D

There are places where uni studies are free, so realism is debatable. It would be fun if we could set the fees ourselves though.

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shortmikez
New Spectator
6 years ago
"munroele;c-17311136" wrote:
The USA is the only country in the world with stupid high uni fees. Having them be affordable is the more universal experience, so I'd argue it's better. Mod the fees to be stupid high, rather than mod them down, if you really want.

That’s not necessarily true. I’m from the UK and uni fees are currently £9K per year. Not to talk about additional loans for living, etc...
kurimisarang
6 years ago
Wasn't the cost shown for that one term only ? I didn't pay attention but it looked like it.

In any case being from a normal country with normal ideas about education and healthcare, I'm fine with it.
AineOfMay
Seasoned Spectator
6 years ago
Hopefully MCCC will update with an option to choose the tuition cost. We could ask Deaderpool.
somewhsome
6 years ago
"happyopi;c-17311248" wrote:
Wasn't the cost shown for that one term only ? I didn't pay attention but it looked like it.

In any case being from a normal country with normal ideas about education and healthcare, I'm fine with it.

Yes, they were for one term. But still, around 1000$ in sims world is not too much.
I mean, I'm for free or cheap education IRL (and my college was free), but student loans don't make a lot of sense in that case? Bills for one week are usually higher.
Luckylunayre
New Spectator
6 years ago
"darrenfroggy;c-17311008" wrote:
There are places where uni studies are free, so realism is debatable.

It would be fun if we could set the fees ourselves though.

Did you mean: almost everywhere besides America? LOL.
DoloresGrey
Seasoned Newcomer
6 years ago
In Czechia uni is either for free or extremely cheap though I find this tuition ridiculously low. I was really looking forward to spend a lot of my sims' money but nope. They'll all still stay Rockfellers.

I like that the books are quite expensive.
sunsetvalleysim
6 years ago
I don't get why the fees per course are $240 and the books are $700 each. It seems like it should have been the other way around. Hopefully the course books are required and not free unless you lose them, but I don't think you can take out loans for expenses outside of tuition and housing, so it'll be weird that you take out loans/get scholarships to cover ~1250 per semester for housing and four courses but then have to find an additional ~2800 for books. You should also be able to take an additional amount of loans out to cover incidentals imo.
atreya33
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I think the cost for university is pretty realistic. Universities cost some money but not extremely much.

When it comes realism, I would have liked to have stoves in a dorm. Students who are old enough to live in a dorm hundreds of miles from home and old enough to take on a loan are also old enough to cook. This feels like a rediculous restriction from my point of view.
--Asiram900--
6 years ago
"Atreya33;c-17311507" wrote:
I think the cost for university is pretty realistic. Universities cost some money but not extremely much.

When it comes realism, I would have liked to have stoves in a dorm. Students who are old enough to live in a dorm hundreds of miles from home and old enough to take on a loan are also old enough to cook. This feels like a rediculous restriction from my point of view.

I agree. It made people outside of America think that not having stoves in dorms is a normal thing, but it actually is very common in America, which is why I’m confused about why they decided to leave it out.
Marduc_Plays
6 years ago
As it's ridiculously easy to make money in the Sims they could at least be a tad higher, no matter what RL country you compare them to.I don't the sims necessarily to struggle, but it should make an impact paying for what they get.