Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140926004722/@comment-25399914-20140927220451

EmbraceTheHood wrote: Another thing about that, L1984, is that I don't think all students attending Beacon are going to necessarily be on the battlefield once they graduate. Qrow, Taiyang, Ozpin, Glynda, Port, Oobleck, and Peach are all teachers, so while, yes, they're all Hunstmen, they're not necessarily full-time "soldiers" (I'm just going to use this term because it's the best I can come up with right off the top of my head) like Summer and some of the other Huntsmen. So another possibility as to why Huntsmen are such a rare sight in the streets is because they're either fighting outside of the kingdoms, or are teaching at the schools.... I do agree as I can also imagine a lot of the high ranking police and military being huntsmen like general James Ironwood, the academies are vary good at emphasising discipline teamwork and leadership which are all valuable.

I would also assume the at least in her fathers mind Weiss will go back to Atlas and learn about the business rather that actually become a huntress.

So I can see a lot of people going of into other careers.

But everyone also compares Signal to real world universities whist missing one of the most important points. Real world universities don't just teach one course but a huge variety.

So there are only 40 or 50 first year student for huntsmen and huntresses but what about other courses. Say another 50 for each of the following.

Robotics Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, architecture, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Dust Studies, Physics, History, Ecology, Biology, fine art, media studies, politics, economy, business, psychology, teaching, nursing.

19 courses x 50 students x 4 years = 3,800 students

Add 200 hunters 4000 student and the figures for students are far closer to a real world university.

Medicine and veterinary medicine take longer, some courses will have larger classes, there may be more course and this doesn't take into account postgraduate education.

Maybe the huntsmen academies have a special permit to tech huntsmen skills given there martial status and gain huge amounts of prestige and funding through this which make them the best of the best more like Harvard and Oxbridge.