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InCities: Skylines 2, there are four tiers of education, progressing from elementary school to university. As citizens grow in your city, they can attend school, become more educated, and contribute to the workforce. When your city is still growing, you won’t have access to all the best education though.
Here, we are going to go over how to properly educate your citizens. Thankfully, once your education infrastructure is set up, it’s pretty self-sufficient from there. Additionally, we will cover the benefits of educating citizens, and how to encourage attendance at colleges and universities.
What Types Of Education Is There?
As mentioned above, there arefour tiers of education,which can be seen below. Additionally, you can check out the corresponding school for each tier.
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University (This includes the Technical and Medical Universities)
What Is The Education Budget?
From the services tab in the Economy menu, you canraise or lower the education budget of your city.
This willaffect the chances of graduationfor students in your city, as well asimpact any city-wide effects that you have.For example, the Medical University decreases recovery failures and increases hospital efficiency within your city. With a decreased budget, this willnot be as effective.
Does Every Citizen Go To College?
In real life, you decide if you want to attend college. This is implemented in Cities: Skylines 2 as well. Citizens canchoose if they want to attend college or not,which means that not everyone will become college/university-educated.
There are ways to boost college interest though. For example, thesignature building Principiis will have a city-wide increase in university education,as well as price an increased chance of graduation.
How To Provide Elementary & High School Education
Child and teen citizens will attend school normally,you don’t have to boost interest in these public schools.
To provide adequate elementary and high school education, be sure to check out the education overlay. This will show you the capacity for each school, as well as the eligibility number.
With one elementary school, you will have a base of 1,000 capacity, if you have more than 1,000 eligible children,try building another school or upgrading the current school.
Eligibility Vs. Capacity
Within the education overlay, you will see theeligible students, the maximum capacity, and the current number of students in the corresponding school type.Your college eligibility may be way more than your maximum capacity, but don’t panic just yet!
The important number here is the current number of students. If this is nowhere near the capacity, then you simply havea lot of adults who opted out of college.Fortunately, adults can go back to college later in life, allowing them to become well and highly educated.
Transportation To School
Another important thing to keep in mind ishow your citizens get to school.If you place a college far from residential zones, some citizens may struggle to get there and use this as a reason to not attend. Withmedium to high-density residential buildingsclose to your colleges and universities, you can helpboost the number of citizens who attend.
Additionally, we suggest setting up atransportation system that goes between residential areas and schools.This can be as simple as a subway stop, or a complex bus network that covers many residential zones. Regardless of what you choose,people need a way to get to school!
