(Continuation from post immediately above this one.)
@co_emmi
Ok this is what I have found. And remember, I do
not own the Campus DLC.
My issue (questions) is about the regular, vanilla University, and I don't remember having this problem with my University eligible individuals, before the new update was downloaded.
So as you can see from the image below, the Info Views/Education panel, for the Universities shows: "Eligible = 15439" and "Capacity = 9000." ("Capacity" of 9000 is two Universities of 4500 each.)
Also included in the image, is the University panel that displays when you click on the structure itself. Here you will notice that it says (total) "University students in the city = 7103."
So if I have 15439 "eligible" individuals, and I have the physical "capacity" to educate up to 9000 students, then why do I only have 7103 students ? (Spread out between both Universities in my city.)
What I did to test this, is that I built a third University far away from either of the two that already exist (this increased "capacity" to 13500). I was wondering if building another, would entice more individuals to attend, especially those "possible eligible" individuals that reside close to the newly built University. But nothing. I played the game for a while to test this and very little changed (my "University students in the city" would barely fluctuate between around 7100 to 7200.)
So I left this new, third University in my city, but just turned it Off using the "On/Off" button/option found in its panel (no reason to pay for its upkeep cost, if it provides no benefit).
This is strange, because the Elementary and High School education programming (system) in the game, do not have the problem explained above for the University.
(I will provide images of this in the next post.)