(Submission by @becauseforoncethisisme)

My ideal UA is one where we keep the classes taught by pros because they know what’s what and can catch things outsiders wouldn’t spot. Plus, impressing the youngsters.

However, each student would be assigned a nutritionist, personal trainer, and counselor from the moment they were accepted. Yaoyorozu’s nutritionist would immediately be like “WE NEED TO RAISE YOUR BMI, STAT, YOU’RE GONNA NEED ALL THE FAT YOU CAN GET”; Izuku’s trainer would be all “LET’S START BY FIGURING OUT HOW TO NOT BREAK YOUR FUCKING BONES WHEN YOU USE YOUR QUIRK, DAMN, CHILD”; Bakugou’s counselor would groan and slam their head on the table because of course they got the one with serious issues. Mineta wouldn’t make it past the first weekly counselor meeting where all the girls complained about his disgusting behavior if he even managed to get assigned an all-male team, because if he pulled his shit on the people assigned to help him? He’d be out on his ass immediately.

Second year is when support kids and management kids start working with the hero kids, because you want to instill respect for support and management young, but you also want support and management to know the basics before they start working with hero students.

Third year is pretty hands-off, comparatively, like they have homeroom weeks once a month to make sure they keep up with their education, but it’s mostly working on your internships and networking. You’ve probably already teamed up with some support and management students; it’s considered…not bad, exactly…more unlucky? Like, a bad omen, if you don’t work with your peers during your third year. Certainly you’d work with professionals as well, but it’s expected to not ONLY work with them.

Also, Recovery Girl definitely has a full team of surgeons and other medical professionals behind her, so she can save her stamina and use as little of her Quirk as possible. She’d use a kiss first if the patient needed medical attention STAT, but usually she uses it after the others attended to the wound, to make sure that her healing went right. No ruined hands here!

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It’s been confirmed multiple times that UA has an insane budget. If they can build enormous fake cities for the kids to wreck, there should be teams of specialised making sure they develop correctly, like real-world professional athletes. You’re so right.

Their quirks and bodies are pushed to their limits while they’re still growing, not to mention the mental toll that comes with being a UA student. They’re under dangerous amounts of stress on an everyday basis just trying to stay ahead, and they’re the target of villain attacks. They need trained professionals to monitor them. Pro heroes just don’t cut it.

And yes!!! I’ve been thinking about the support and management kids being unleashed on the hero course students for so long. The hero kids are like walking, talking educational props for the other departments. The management kids use the hero course to brainstorm how to market a diverse range of heroes, how to deal with mistakes and flaws, ect. (The management department is fascinated with Midoriya, both because he’s a lot more difficult to market to the public, unlike heroes like Iida or Tsuyu, and because he fucks up a lot. To his dismay, there have been entire classes dedicated to brainstorming how to run damage control on his destructive tendencies.) And the support course get to work with real people and real quirks and see first-hand how they hold-up in the field! And the hero course needs to get used to dealing with non-hero personale, since management and support are key aspects of being a pro hero.

I also headcanon that the hero course is (at first, at least) kind of scared of the other departments. Everyone outside of UA assumes that the hero course is King Of The School, but NOPE. The hero kids are either being fought over by management/support kids or death-glared at by Gen Ed.

Third-years not having such a strict traditional education also makes a lot of sense! In canon, it’s mentioned that UA teachers have a lot of control over the curriculum, so it makes a lot of sense that formal classes would only be once a week, maybe once a month at the end of third year. The hero kids would bounce between internships, promotional events, meet-ups with their management and support teams, and regular training sessions.