University location

[+Guest Member 346692]

New SimCity 2013 player here.  I am building a tech city and I am confused as to where to place a university.  I read in one place that a community college needed to be placed near the industrial zone but a university did not.  But then I saw this video guide that says a university has to be near the industrial zone; and the guy plopped it right down in the middle of a dirty industrial zone!!!  NASTY!   I don't want to do that.  I have this vision of this beautiful university /tech town, with room to grow for the university (add-ons) and dormitories and commercial zones and residential near by.  And I was going to place some dorms near the industrial zone as I saw recommended somewhere.  Please tell me I can still do that, but only honestly    My progress is halted because I'm not sure where to place it or if I need to do some redesigning.  Thanks for the help in advance.

[zacnlinc 4]

I've found that placing the Uni. works regardless where it's placed.   

Like you, I wanted to create a nice high tech business park and am off to a very good start thus far.  However, I would suggest that you go about this type of adventure very slowly and start off with a college first.  Otherwise, you could go broke! 

For me, I "envisioned" that the upgrading of the college to the Uni. would occur when the cost of running the college was equivalent to the Uni. alone.   Even then, I waited until my education level was maxed out and the tech level was at stage 2 of 3.  The I plopped the Uni. and kept a close eye on the industrial factors as they began converting over to high tech. 

In an effort to get ahead of the "lack of worker" messages, I began closing destroying said factories so that the sims would redistribute themselves to other factories to boost the tech levels.   It took a while but I finally ended up with a handful of high tech factories at the max building size.  This was down from a much larger sprawling section of the map of low and medium tech factories.

 

Good Luck!!