My University Faculty, Labs, and the Academy

Staff is the quiet half of My University. The canteen looks like the whole game until a rank gate asks for associate professors, a club wants rare books, or an academy popup reports another researcher in the 55–64 danger band. This page is the people loop. Read Getting Started for the first international hire board. Read school upgrade for the moment lecturers stop being enough.

Teachers: pressure, titles, and when to let go

Open international hiring on day one and accept the board. Early campuses do not need a teacher in every chair; they need someone at the lectern and a course-pressure slider near 400 so clubs still recruit. Vocational and bachelor tracks can live there. Master’s and doctorate tracks can sit near 500. If a teacher resigns, replace them. Bidding a fortune to keep a mediocre lecturer is how a stove queue dies.

Bachelor upgrades and graduate points want associate professors and professors. Lecturers who carried the first decade become leftover names. The July 2026 patch added clearer training and project flags on the teacher panel so you can see who is already in a lab. Use that. Do not send the same person to teach a full load and run a high-risk project.

A late-game flex some principals chase is hundreds of associate professors and professors. That number is a book farm and a prestige wall, not a year-three goal. Build labs first, then fill them. The building priority list will tell you when a lab loses to a library rating.

Researchers: age is the real stat

Academy work looks like science and behaves like a hazard table. Illness and accident rates spike between 55 and 64. Do not put that band on lithography, time-machine jokes, or any project the game treats as serious. Hire researchers aged 20–35. Older famous names can teach. They should not hold the unstable glassware.

The July 2026 update also made teacher-to-researcher transfers prefer higher ability, and it warns you when a department or institute is already full. The same client added academy quick hire so you can fill several empty institutes in one pass. Read the warning. Overflow hiring is just a wage.

Licensing a finished project to a company is a prestige and cash event, not a reason to staff the academy with grandparents. If a popup looks like a holiday, it is not; check random events.

Rare books, clubs, and logistics

Rare-book fragments drop from associate professors and professors. The ugly but effective farm is hire-and-release after you have doctorate-level drop rates. Earlier ranks drop fragments so rarely that the loop is a waste. Books buff clubs more than they buff the ledger. Expand club buildings to cap, place every club, and let awards accrue. The library page covers fragments; the clubs page covers when to found the halls. Club tasks are optional experience. Course pressure is the real recruitment tool.

Logistics wants one person per department so a leadership inspection cannot fine an empty office. Staff will demand doubled wages. A jump into eight-digit salaries is a failed event even if you clicked it on purpose. Refill a seat after a fine. Do not pre-hire a crowd. The event advisor will not stop a wage click; your restraint will.

Employment rate, when a rank or a firm cares, is teacher skill plus a modest scholarship mix plus sane pressure. It is not a maxed score line that empties the incoming class. Use the enrollment planner for sliders and this page for the humans those sliders sit on.

Official screenshots on this wiki come from the App Store listing. Developer QQ groups on the links page are where staff-tool bugs get reported. If a new directory appears in a patch, the Updates Hub will say so. People are the long game. Treat age, title, and wage as stats, and the campus stops feeling haunted by popups.