Unlike the top six elite schools, the second-tier academies tend to emphasize vocational specialization and require extremely high scores and abilities. They represent the ceiling that average people without extraordinary talent can reach. Even so, students who can enter these academies usually come from families that aren't poor, since the threshold for admission in terms of scores and abilities also demands the investment of excellent educational resources.
Apart from the aforementioned four, many of the academies ranked 11-20 are also focused on strong vocational fields. For instance, Heghaus Academy, ranked twelfth, primarily trains industrial designers; Fasiting Academy, ranked fourteenth, cultivates talents in aesthetics, many of whom are artists; the fifteenth-ranked academy specializes in Enchantment Branding Pattern Masters; while Yuanting Academy, ranked seventeenth, specializes in breeders.
