diff --git a/MekHQ/src/mekhq/campaign/personnel/education/EducationController.java b/MekHQ/src/mekhq/campaign/personnel/education/EducationController.java
index 7e61e2ce66..b84a87eaf2 100644
--- a/MekHQ/src/mekhq/campaign/personnel/education/EducationController.java
+++ b/MekHQ/src/mekhq/campaign/personnel/education/EducationController.java
@@ -492,6 +492,13 @@ private static void processNewWeekChecks(Campaign campaign, Academy academy, Per
                 }
             }
 
+            // has the system been depopulated? Nominally similar to the above, but here we use actual system data, so it's more dynamic.
+            if (campaign.getSystemById(person.getEduAcademySystem()).getPopulation(campaign.getLocalDate()) == 0) {
+                if (checkForAcademyDestruction(campaign, academy, person, resources)) {
+                    return;
+                }
+            }
+
             // is the academy faction at war with person faction, or the campaign faction?
             if (checkForAcademyFactionConflict(campaign, academy, person, resources)) {
                 return;
@@ -658,7 +665,9 @@ private static boolean checkForAcademyClosure(Campaign campaign, Academy academy
      * @return true if the academy has been destroyed, false otherwise
      */
     private static boolean checkForAcademyDestruction(Campaign campaign, Academy academy, Person person, ResourceBundle resources) {
-        if (campaign.getLocalDate().getYear() >= academy.getDestructionYear()) {
+        // we assume that if the system's population has been depleted, the academy has been destroyed too.
+        if ((campaign.getLocalDate().getYear() >= academy.getDestructionYear())
+                || (campaign.getSystemById(person.getEduAcademySystem()).getPopulation(campaign.getLocalDate()) == 0)) {
             if ((!person.isChild(campaign.getLocalDate())) || (campaign.getCampaignOptions().isAllAges())) {
                 if (Compute.d6(2) >= 5) {
                     campaign.addReport(person.getHyperlinkedName() + ' ' + resources.getString("eventDestruction.text"));