These are the official rules for adding a university. However, for me that is much too complicated, so I changed the rules for myself.
In my game, rich sims can volunteer to contribute to the founding of a university. To do this, in my game they buy a painting or something else with a 'round' price, and keep this in their storage.
I keep track what each family pays and when I have $1,000,000, I can build the university. With thanks to the generous sims who made this possible. :)
But for those who want to play it according to the rules, here they are:
Adding universities to your neighbourhood may be the hardest to unlock because they are expensive to build. There are three ways to go about raising enough funds for a university.
1. You can take a weekly tax from each household. This tax would be 5% of their lot value. To do this you may use the familyfunds cheat, a hacked object (ex. ATM), or buy an item(s) that equals the tax value and leave in your Sims inventory. Once you have collected $1,000,000 in taxes you may add your public university. If you choose this method make sure you keep track of how much you’ve collected, and a calculator will be useful.
2. Reach a population of 50,000, and the state will build your neighbourhood a public university for free. This option is only good if you simply want to meet the population goal, as this would mark the end. However, if you play beyond the goal, this method may work for you.
3. Have a wealthy Sim donate $1,000,000 to either build a public or private university. Move this Sim to a smaller lot if you need to, in order to subtract the money from their funds using any method you choose.
A public university will accept any Sim. However, if you choose to have a wealthy Sim build a private university, they (you) get to decide who gets to enroll and who doesn’t. The founder of the private university gets $50,000 per Sim who enrolls.
You may earn multiple universities using any of the three methods mentioned. In addition to adding to your SM, for each university you also earn 5 CAS Sims (students perhaps). [You don’t have to add the new Sims as you earn them. You can save up and add whole families if you choose.]
