Campus Attractiveness

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Getting to and maintaining Level 5 (Prestigious) Campus reputation is such a bother. How are you supposed to reach and maintain 1,800 Attractiveness WITHOUT spamming Faculty and campus building items like clubs, and fountains? Or keeping the "Universal Education" policy? Or a combination of the two. I definitely need to get rid of that policy and my duplicate clubs and fountains as keeping multiple instances of clubs and other Campus items is just plain unrealistic. You don't set up five Chess clubs in real life, nor do you spam the University statue as that statue is your Uni's symbol and having multiple copies would be stupid. Is there any other way to raise and maintain attractiveness that isn't ridiculous? If I disable the policy and delete my multiple chess clubs and fountains my attractiveness drops to 1,500 :(

[Nature[NL]]

I would also like to know the answer, i even placed 2 sports arena's butt never reached level 5.

[grapplehoeker]

Perhaps it's too small.
I only used a couple of clubhouses, fountains and one statue. The bulk of the attractiveness comes from the main Campus buildings though.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1752527018
As you can see, the Campus buildings alone take me well over 1800 and the Varsity buildings add another 600+ to that.

[BucketBrain]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1765653995
+ free lunch policy

[MortimerCat]

Forgive me for bumping but I have the same problem and this is the only discussion I could find.

I have a few well established cities, some with all three universities at the top level. Up until now, I found that to hit the attractiveness target, I just needed to add one of each building. So when the level goes up, I just add the newly available buildings, then wait for the students and the academic works to catch up.

My latest city, I went for the liberal arts. Like @cahos, I also found myself putting down multiple buildings to get the attractiveness up. I have even put down all five sport stadiums, but still falling short of the 1800 to become 5*. Note that I have more than enough academic papers and student total to hit the next level. It is the attractiveness letting me down.

My question is "what decides attractiveness". It is obviously not just the amount of buildings. What is this extra ingredient that I am missing, but somehow managed to include in all my other cities?

[rdngmikey]

Use campus parks and squares to boost the attractiveness, yes you have to spam the parks a bit, but you can also create some of your own in the editor.

You can also use Varsity Sports, though this can get expensive in the early game, every win your team gets adds to the attractiveness, though every loss subtracts, so you have to spend on coaches and cheerleaders and anything else to boost their chances to win.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

@rdngmikey:

Campus Parks you say?

Then this mod will definitely help...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1824254667

Also a lot of other discussions have since been made regarding how to maximize the DLC as a whole and one of the tips that has been suggested, I can't recall who said it though, is to just use the base game College/University instead of using the Campus area until your city reaches a population of 35+k otherwise the Campus Areas will just be a big money pit.

[snowflitzer]

I have no problems to keep it up. Just think how you get it attractive? first you need all the stadiums in the same district, that helps. Then have plenty of mass transportation around and have parks :)

[hebertinchina]

I found this website very helpful in choosing buildings that increase attractiveness. http://store.steampowered.com It shows the size and amount of attractiveness for each building so I could choose buildings that were small but added a lot fo attraction. I simply put 3 statues near my Basketball court as an Athletics Hall of Fame (225), added two more book clubs (perhaps for "Sci-fi" club and "History" club (150)), and added a cafeteria (70). Doing that added 445 attractiveness.

[ajac29650]

I have the opposite problem I cant seem to never get enough students to get past even level 3. Need help if anyone can thank you.

[~\\Savarast//~]

Originally posted by ajac29650:

I have the opposite problem I cant seem to never get enough students to get past even level 3. Need help if anyone can thank you.

The number one reason students don't visit campuses, from my experience, is that there are vanilla universities in the city. Those buildings both have a substantial student capacity, and given that they are much smaller, they are generally the closer option for students to go to school.

The number two reason is that there are a lot of adult or older cims, which will not go to university at all. I'd check your population demographics and education levels to determine if this is the issue.

For a point of reference, with around 200-250k population you can support three 5-star campuses with about 5k students. At my current population of 350k, there are about 6-7k students. This is with no other university buildings (except two workshop telescope dishes which each provide less than 100 student capacity).