Education
Eight degrees, an XP bar, and a scholarship system that pays back 1.5× your tuition if you finish.
For beginners
Degrees unlock jobs, which unlock career tiers, which unlock credit cards — school is the bottom of that whole pyramid. You enroll, grind !study minigames every 30 minutes for XP, sit the exam, and graduate with a permanent intelligence boost. Hit both milestones and the scholarships return 1.5× your tuition.
Tip: Scholarships pay back half your tuition at 75% progress and the full tuition again at 100% — finish any degree and you walk out 50% up on what you paid. Quit before 75% and the tuition is simply gone.
The degree catalog
Eight degrees, each with a tuition, an XP bar to fill, a minimum intelligence to enroll, and prerequisites — everything past high school requires the diploma first, and the two terminal degrees chain off LLB and MBBS. Graduating grants a permanent intelligence boost that gates the higher degrees.
| Degree | Tuition | XP required | Min INT | INT boost | Prerequisite | Unlocks (jobs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High School Diploma | 150,000 | 600 | 0 | +1 | — | IT Intern, Sales Intern |
| Trade License | 300,000 | 900 | 2 | +1 | High School | Mechanic ladder |
| BA Fine Arts (Business) | 900,000 | 1,400 | 4 | +2 | High School | Analyst → Sales Manager |
| BS Computer Science | 1,200,000 | 1,600 | 5 | +2 | High School | Developer ladder → Lead Engineer |
| LLB | 2,500,000 | 2,200 | 6 | +3 | High School | Paralegal → Associate Attorney |
| MBBS | 4,000,000 | 2,800 | 6 | +3 | High School | Medical ladder |
| LLM | 6,000,000 | 3,600 | 8 | +5 | LLB | Partner (tier 4) |
| MD/PhD | 10,000,000 | 5,000 | 8 | +5 | MBBS | Surgeon, Chief of Medicine |
Tuition can go on your Fortuna Card — !education's enroll flow offers wallet or credit. Enrollment blocks: already enrolled elsewhere, insufficient intelligence, or missing prerequisite.
Studying: the 30-minute loop
!study runs one of five minigames — math, word scramble, reaction test, trivia, typing — on a 30-minute cooldown that applies whether you win or lose, and you can study at most 16 times a day. A win banks 50 XP base; a loss banks nothing. UNI shop items stack onto wins: the best owned study book adds ~+20 XP, multipliers like Study Laptop (1.15×) or Tutor Pass (1.6×) amplify further (multiplier total caps at 2×), and Focus Notes drops +45 on your next success. The crafted Duck Feather Quill from hunting adds +25 once.
Every session also adds stress — 20 base, reduced by your discipline stat, floored at 5. Push past 90 education stress and each study risks a 25% chance of burnout that wipes 100 XP. !relax is the release valve (Meditation Retreat: −35 education stress for 150,000).
One session in four triggers a study event: Flow State (+40 XP), a stolen bag (−70 XP, +30 stress), a Pop Quiz you might ace — 35 events, some degree-specific, a few of which even pay coins. They're the variance in an otherwise steady grind.
Scholarships: finish to profit
Two milestones per degree, auto-detected while you study and claimed with a button on !education: reach 75% of the XP bar for a payout of 0.5× your tuition, and 100% for another 1× tuition — 1.5× back in total. Claim both and every degree in the game is net-positive, before you even count the jobs it unlocks.
A BS Computer Science costs 1,200,000 — its scholarships return 1,800,000, a 600,000 profit. The MD/PhD's 10,000,000 sticker price returns 15,000,000. All eight degrees together cost 25,050,000 and return 37,575,000.
The profit only exists at the finish line. At the 75% milestone you've recovered half your tuition and are still down the other half; only the 100% payout puts you ahead. Treat tuition as money locked up until you graduate, not as free money.
The exam
!exam checks one thing: is your education XP at or above the requirement? If yes, you graduate — enrollment closes, the degree and intelligence boost are permanent. If not, nothing bad happens; you're told how far you are and go back to studying. There is no exam-day RNG to fear.
Unless you invite it: a Cheat Sheet (250,000) gambles the clean run — 70% chance it adds +25% of the required XP, 30% chance you're caught: −15% of your XP, +15 stress, and a 10% wallet fine.
!dropout abandons the enrollment after a confirmation — tuition is not refunded. Dropping out before 75% loses the whole tuition; pushing to 75% first at least claws back half of it, and the last quarter of the bar is worth the full tuition again.
UNI shop cheat sheet
Every study accelerant, ranked by what it does: Coffee Thermos (80,000) clears one 30-minute cooldown for +8 stress, once per 4h; Textbook Bundle (120,000) 1.4× for 3 sessions with a 15% wrong-chapter risk each; Calculator Pro (150,000) +30% fail rescue + 1.1× ×3; Focus Notes (160,000) +45 next win and cancels one bad event; Study Laptop (180,000) 1.15× + −6 stress + 10% rescue ×5; Cheat Sheet (250,000) the exam gamble; Lab Kit (300,000) 1.15× + 10% rescue with amplified events ×3; Tutor Pass (400,000) a no-fail 1.6× session with a guaranteed positive event ×1; Scholarship Letter (750,000) an instant roll — 45% for 50k–200k coins, 35% for 25–150 XP, 20% nothing +5 stress.
Getting better at school
Study between everything. The 30-minute cooldown nests inside every other timer in Fortuna — casino cooldowns, the work hour, hunt timers. A degree is ~12–100 successful sessions depending on tier; the players who finish fast are the ones studying while waiting on something else anyway.
Enroll on credit only if you'll finish fast. The 75% milestone repays just half the tuition, so a degree on the Fortuna Card only clears itself at 100% — if that won't happen before Monday's statement, pay at least the minimum from your wallet or bank, or enroll with cash instead.
Stack multipliers on burst days: Study Laptop + Focus Notes + a Duck Feather Quill turns a 50-XP session into 125+. With the 2× multiplier cap, don't run Tutor Pass and Textbook Bundle simultaneously — sequence them.
Order matters: High School → BS Computer Science is the best early ROI (cheap, unlocks the smooth Tech ladder). LLB → LLM is the cheapest path to career tier 4. MBBS → MD/PhD costs the most and pays the most — endgame. The earlier degrees' scholarship profits cover only a slice of the 10,000,000, so budget the rest from work and claims.
Commands in this module
Pro tips
- Claim scholarships the moment they unlock — 75% pays 0.5× tuition and 100% pays 1× more. Forgetting them is leaving 1.5× your tuition on the table.
- The exam has no RNG — it's just an XP check. The Cheat Sheet is the only way to fail dramatically; skip it unless you enjoy 30% odds of a wallet fine.
- Watch education stress separately from job stress: past 90, one in four study sessions torches 100 XP. Meditation Retreat covers both meters at −35.
- Intelligence gates enrollment (LLM and MD/PhD need 8) and only degrees raise it — the ladder is self-locking, so plan the sequence, not just the next degree.
- !degrees is your proof sheet — check it against a job posting's requirements before applying; the requirement is the diploma, not the enrollment.