No Students are coming to my university?

[Theed]

Does anyone have a fix or a reason why?

[mbutton15]

I have this problem. It happens all the time with me.

Firstly, I don't have the Campus DLC or any mods mentioned above.

I've seen this for a long time, even pre the Campus DLC. Normally for schools and high schools the number of students attending each building is roughly number of students divided by number of buildings. Not so with universities. I'll usually end up with 3, 4 or more universities. Some will have students some will be a big fat ZERO.

I've never got to the bottom of why they don't spread out evenly across available buildings the same way they do for schools and high schools. I gave up trying to find a solution and just live with it now.

[Firefoxpichu]

Just wanted to say I just bumped into this problem. Built a university, but 0 students. Even built a High Density Residental Zone to boost young adults (litterly on the other side of the road. Try to sell the building, turned it off and on. I don't have the campus DLC or mods.

[Geekgurl411]

I was having this problem. I deleted all colleges and universities around my city except in my zoned campus. That seemed to do the trick for me.

[nelsdupree]

The same here, at first it was great had over 600 students and was working fine for a time then nothing. yeah toga is still going but no students have a pop of 67k and a university rating of unpopular .

[Exsosus|Cryo|]

[SOLVED]

Here is the solution:

Having started an original city where the college/or university populated correctly, and then a new one a few days ago, before finding this thread on Steam Community Forums, I was surprised to see I had zero students going to my Trade School college! I was determined to solve this, so where we go.

Approximate population in my new city: 15.000

1) I had 1x vanilla building-university and 2x of the new-ish Faculty College buildings next to it in my city which were populated with students nearly full. I turned these buildings off. You may bulldoze them if you wish. I kept them as they look nice where they are.
2) I realized I did not have so many elementary and highschools built in my city. The schools were overpopulated, to say it lightly. I built 3-4 more elementary schools and 1-2 more high schools because the students were too overpopulated in the original buildings. At this point they were populated normally and had a few slots left of attendance in each building category.
3) City-wide Policies: I read on one of the forums that turning on the policy that weed smoking is legal helps bring in more college students so I turrned that on as legal. I also checked: Education Boost.
4) Next I built a bus-line, in my case Biobus for the environment from: Residential zones to the college, as well as an Intercity Bus Terminal next to the college, about 1 block away walking distnace to the college, for students coming in from other cities to study in my city.
5) Wait: I waited 3-4 day/night cycles, so about 96 hours is what you want to give this, which is in real life on medium speed, which I play on, about 40 minutes real life clock.

After about 40-50 minutes on medium game speed, you should begin noticing the buildings populate normally.

Notes:
Do not: have universities or faculty buildings from Vanila turned on, or you may not get the college to populate as fast!
Do have: plenty of elementary schools and highschools, community colleges if you wish, and other schools around your city including libraries to attract students to your city.

Within 12 hours of real game time, which is 2 days in real life, I had reached 4-stars at the Trade school college.

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Edited for grammar.