SimCity 249: University

Universities are the grand expression of education. They will rapidly advance the culture and education level of the surrounding population and serve up an influx of young students all with charge cards and no sense of debt or planning for the future.

Modules: Schools

Most people don't understand the difference between a college and a university. A university is a collection of schools -- each school focusing on a different discipline. So a university might have a school of engineering, a school of law, and a school of business. A college, on the other hand, is a single school with a single focus. That is true of community colleges, too; their single discipline is general knowledge (or sometimes liberal arts).

The university in your town can have several buildings dedicated to each of five disciplines:

  • Engineering
  • Law
  • Medicine
  • Science
  • Business

Modules: Dormitories

Keeping in mind that most people who attend a university don't live across the street, resident students who call your university home require a place to live while they are on campus. You can plop down up to three residential dorms then sit back and watch the fireworks.

Module: The Sign

Finally, there is a ploppable for which the sign is indispensable! There is no such thing as a hoity-toity university that doesn't have a big-ass sign out in front of Old Main. Congratulations: your years of dabbling in signage have finally paid off.

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