Education is one of the most useful services inCities: Skylines. While services like electricity, water, and garbagewill keep buildings from being abandoned, education is the biggest deciding factor in determining when buildings get to level up. The more residents or workers are educated, and the better their education is, the higher the building’s level will go.
What makes this so good is the fact that high-level buildings have higher property values, and this means they pay more in taxes. As such, education buildings are a direct investment in the city’s wealth, andany player who wants to boost their incomeshould make sure they have plenty of education opportunities.
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The Education Levels
When players select the education building menu at the bottom of theCities: Skylinesinterface or check the education info view (both look like an open book), they can see the education levels of every citizen in the city. Players can also check the education levels of people in individual residences and of the workers at a workplace by selecting individual buildings.
As players might expect, only children can go to elementary school, only teens can go to high school, and only adults can go to a university. This means that the education level in new residential zones will climb slowly as children are born and graduate from each institution. And while the city-wide education level will increase as long as the availability of each institution is in the green, there will always be a few uneducated citizens so long as the player keeps expanding the city.
Education Tips
Cities: Skylinesis available now on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One, and it’s coming for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on February 15.
