University Too Long?

Taking the max load:
TS2 University: 8 semesters @ 74 hours/semester = 24 days and 16 hours (3.5 weeks)
TS3 University Life: 48 credits @ 18 credits/week = 3 weeks (minimum) (can be shortened to two weeks through aptitude testing)
TS4 Discover University: 12 classes @ 4 classes/week = 3 weeks

Looks about right to me, based on previous university packs.

Yes I reduce it to just 6 credits with a mod.

There's a really good mod for this - even if I can't currently remember what it's called but I can look it up if you want - that lets you reduce it easily. I've brought it down to 9 but might go for 6 like @jimbbq, especially in households with multiple students, because having 3 sims do their degree with 3 courses per week is actually pretty annoying at this rate xD

But overall yes I agree it's long. Perhaps also because of the way sims 4 worlds work - you can't really not play your uni sims or they will fail and be put on probation. Guess that's the one major benefit of having uni in a totally separate world (even though I didn't much like it and barely any of my sims 3 have degrees for that very reason.)

"Sketch793;c-17500566" wrote:
Taking the max load:
TS2 University: 8 semesters @ 74 hours/semester = 24 days and 16 hours (3.5 weeks)
TS3 University Life: 48 credits @ 18 credits/week = 3 weeks (minimum) (can be shortened to two weeks through aptitude testing)
TS4 Discover University: 12 classes @ 4 classes/week = 3 weeks

Looks about right to me, based on previous university packs.

However, there is one small detail: in previous chapters, a sim's lifetime was frozen while being in university. So these three weeks just passed out really quickly while the sim was studying or having fun. In TS4 you have to spend all of your "young adults" age for graduating university. Since "young adultness" is something like 18-35 years old in The Sims 4, I think it's a bit unrealistically.
On the other side, in TS4 a sim can work or start a family while studying at university.

There's the 'university more/less credits' mod. I'm using it to reduce a degree to 8 credits but i'll start using it to only 6. I love the pack but it's actually too much. The mod has a ton of flavours: you can use it to complete degrees from 4 to 20 credits.

I play on long life, so I actually find it a little on the short side. That said, what you may want to try if you don't want to use a mod is to switch to long life (or aging off as apparently it was in previous games) while your sim is at University.

If you switch to long life while at uni, and then back to normal when they graduate, the amount of aging from while at Uni is proportional. (It's early, don't ask me to do the math on specifics.) Of course, this won't work as well if you have multiple sims/sim families going to Uni in overlapping but staggered times.

I haven't tried mods yet, but I make my uni sims live in a different lot, and when I play them I turn off aging completely.

From what I've heard most people who play on a normal or (modded) custom lifespan that is comparable, turn aging off while their Sim is at uni. Or leave it on for a single week, then turn it off for the rest of uni.

It does feel like it takes forever but I dont think it's any longer than any other sims game. But I dont like that it seems to take an entire life span to complete so I just turn aging off when I have a sim at university.

"DaWaterRat;c-17500686" wrote:
I play on long life, so I actually find it a little on the short side. That said, what you may want to try if you don't want to use a mod is to switch to long life (or aging off as apparently it was in previous games) while your sim is at University.

If you switch to long life while at uni, and then back to normal when they graduate, the amount of aging from while at Uni is proportional. (It's early, don't ask me to do the math on specifics.) Of course, this won't work as well if you have multiple sims/sim families going to Uni in overlapping but staggered times.

I do that too, together with a mod to reduce credits. I play in short lifespan and change it to long during uni. 2 weeks in long (14 days) are aprox 2 days in short. Long lifespan is 8 times bigger than short so 8 days in long equals 1 day in short.