Education

Information

Education is available from either the sidebar or the West Side of the City and is extremely beneficial as it can enhance nearly every aspect of your game.

To enroll in an Education course you need to have the required amount of money, which varies for each course. Some Education courses require you to complete a certain prerequisite course before enrolling.

Starting an education course will cost a player some money. If a player owns the IST Benefit Block, their education fees will be waived.

While enrolled in an education course, a player can be kicked out of the course for drug usage. If this happens, a player will need start the course again from the very beginning.

Advantages of Education

• Earn Working Stats
• Boost gains in the Gym
• Earn passive buffs to Battle Stats
• Unlock Hacking Crimes, and Driving-related Crimes Transport Drugs and Arson
• Boost your crime success rate
• Earn 16 awards (Honors + Merits), 12 for completing a degree and 4 for completing a certain number of classes
• Reduce the cost of Bails, Property upgrades and Company advertising
• Increase Bust success rate and gain the ability to Bust yourself out of jail
• Unlock kick attack when in a battle
• Increase the effectiveness of Weapons and temporary weapons (known as Needles) found in the Pharmacy
• Gain the ability to earn weapon experience for increased damage and accuracy in specific weapons used
• Unlock new locations on the map: the Museum and the Sports Shop
• Increase Ammunition effectiveness
• Increase Business Efficiency
• Gain the ability to code Viruses
• Gain the ability to send anonymous E-mails
• Gain the ability to find Artifacts
• Gain the ability to exchange Museum items (plushies, flowers, and artifacts) for Points
• Gain the ability to draw blood and use Blood Bags
• Boost Awareness by a large amount

How to shorten Education time

• Spending Merits on decreasing education time. The merit upgrade removes 2% of the education time per upgrade, up to a maximum of 20% shorter education time with 10 upgrades.

• Promoting to the top rank of the starter job Education (Principal) you will gain a passive 10% decrease in education time. You will keep this passive even if you leave the starter job.

• Having a West Side University (WSU) Stock Block of 1,000,000 shares will reduce education time by 10%.

Education reductions are calculated additively (I.e full education merits, WSU, and principal perk would be a 40% reduction).

Promoting to Principal, investing Merits in 'Education Length', or acquiring the WSU benefit block will reduce the length of any subsequent courses — having no effect on a course that has already been started.

Example of time reduction calculation table for entire Education: History module, which is without any reductions 175 days long.

Reduction Category	Percentage	Days Saved	Remaining Days
No Reductions (Baseline)	0%	0	175
Education Principal Job	10%	17.5	157.5
WSU Stock Block	10%	17.5	157.5
Merits Only	20%	35	140
Merits + (Job OR Stock)	30%	52.5	122.5
All Combined	40%	70	105

Additionally you can reduce your education length time with following options:

• Through the 1* Fitness Center special "Healthy Mind". Each job point used will reduce education time by 30 minutes.

• Through the 7* Hair Salon special "Cutting corners". Each job point used will reduce education time by 30 minutes.

• Using "Book of Carols" lowers current education time by 6 hours. This item spawns in Christmas Town.

Using job points in Fitness Center or Hair Salon will reduce your current education time by 30 minutes per. Book of Carols will reduce your current education time by 6 hours.

Historical Notes

Until April 2024, percentage reductions to education time were calculated multiplicatively (I.e full education merits, WSU, and principal perk would not be a 40% reduction, but would work out to be 35%.) Following formula was used:

(1-x)*(1-y)*(1-z)*l

x = 0.10 from WSU

y = 0.20 from merits

z = 0.10 from job

l = Education length

Patch History

Released prior to Patch list #1

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Patch list #368 : 07/01/2025

• Fixed ability to program Firewalk Virus not being mentioned in the Algorithms & Advanced Programming course

Patch list #334 : 16/04/24

• Changed Education course time reduction bonuses to be additive instead of multiplicative

Patch list #259 : 04/10/22

• Changed method of leaving education courses to be more consistent with leaving factions, companies, and jobs

Patch list #196 : 15/06/21

• Fixed Sports Medicine education course not providing 10% to temporary booster passive stat increases

Patch list #188 : 13/04/21

• Renamed Recoil Pad's "control" and Education's "ammo management" bonuses to "ammo conservation".

Patch list #185 : 23/03/21

• Changed "Master of Self Defense" course name to "Bachelor of Self Defense".

Patch list #179 : 09/02/21

• Changed 'Anatomy' education course from +5% (+3.5% actual) to +3%.

Patch list #174 : 29/12/20

• Added new modifier Addiction Mitigation which reduces all effects of addiction.

Patch list #172 : 15/12/20

• Added an event which is received when an education course is completed (only educations after today).

Patch list #132 : 10/03/20

• Changed 'rate of fire' educations / weapon mod to be additive and use stochastic rounding.
• Reduced Bachelor of Mathematics education to provide 20% ammo management instead of 30%.

Patch list #103 : 23/07/19

• Changed Self Defence bachelor bonus to affect the final damage of fists instead of internal damage modifier.

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