Academia? No Thanks

Parent page Life in the Academy

While many players in an Adventure Path about a magic academy might be interested in developing their characters' academic careers, some might want to skip right to the action. That's okay! You can either skip the subsystem entirely, in which case characters will be a little less versatile than normal, or just allow characters to automatically advance their primary branch at every even level, to a maximum branch level of 11 when the character reaches level 20.