How to get more educated workers?

[AlexanderGames]

Hey! I've noticed I have issues getting educated workers into my cities. Does anybody have advice on this?

I have an example city on youtube. Here's the link:

 

[Promethian]

Schools. Make sure they have good coverage of your residential areas. Also click the schools and check their capacity numbers. If they are full then make more. There are 3 tiers of school as well. You need coverage and capacity for all 3. The university tier tends to be expensive but long reaching and has way more capacity than you need. So plan its placement well.

 

[prismaticmarcus]

you also need a good mix of low and high density residential. high density gets young adults to move in and low density means families with children

 

[Steve B.]

It doesn't matter where you place schools; the green streets you see only indicate the area that will level up when you place the school. Cims will travel anywhere to go to school.

I didn't watch your whole play through but I'll take a guess and say that it is commercial areas that are complaining about 'not enough educated workers'. Commercial areas level up more quickly than other areas. Schools, parks, and transit options within the 'green streets' will cause them to level up to their highest level long before you have a University that they require for highly educated workers.

I deal with this by using the 'control building level up' mod, but you can also be careful not to place parks, schools or transit near commercial areas before you get access to universities. Place schools as soon as you get them. There is no downside to educating your cims. As you have found out, the only downside is not educating them.

 

[Promethian]

It doesn't matter where you place schools; the green streets you see only indicate the area that will level up when you place the school. Cims will travel anywhere to go to school.

You contradict yourself in a single sentence. Leveling up your zones is extremely important.

Also the influence area affects the chance the cims living there will attend school. This is why your university placement is so important. While you will get some attendance outside its influence you get a significantly smaller rate.

 

[Steve B.]

You contradict yourself in a single sentence. Leveling up your zones is extremely important.

Also the influence area affects the chance the cims living there will attend school. This is why your university placement is so important. While you will get some attendance outside its influence you get a significantly smaller rate.

Sorry, I disagree. I will reiterate; cims will travel anywhere to go to school. It doesn't matter where the school is located.

Leveling up zones is indeed important for land value and the progress of your city but it does not affect the education of cims. As long as you have enough schools for the number of cims that need schooling at any particular level, cims will travel to them. I don't know where you got the idea that cims attend schools at a "significantly smaller rate" from; this is not my experience in the game. One university anywhere in the city will enable you to have 'highly educated cims". Unless your city is extremely large you rarely need more than one.

I, of course, place elementary and high schools all over my city even though I already have enough schools to handle the amount of potential students. I do it only to level up areas; not to provide more 'educational opportunities'.

 

[Promethian]

Sorry, I disagree. I will reiterate; cims will travel anywhere to go to school. It doesn't matter where the school is located.

Leveling up zones is indeed important for land value and the progress of your city but it does not affect the education of cims. As long as you have enough schools for the number of cims that need schooling at any particular level, cims will travel to them. I don't know where you got the idea that cims attend schools at a "significantly smaller rate" from; this is not my experience in the game. One university anywhere in the city will enable you to have 'highly educated cims". Unless your city is extremely large you rarely need more than one.

I, of course, place elementary and high schools all over my city even though I already have enough schools to handle the amount of potential students. I do it only to level up areas; not to provide more 'educational opportunities'.

Then you don't understand what I said. I didn't say they won't travel. I said they are more likely to choose to attend the tier of schooling if they are in its influence. They do not 100% always attend the next tier of school if there is room. If that were the case then, yes, a single university would do it because they rarely fill up. However that is clearly not the case. Otherwise we'd have much higher %s of high ed.

 

[Clemcy]

Don’t worry next dlc is university zoning!

 

[Xiziz]

Its age dependent, children will always attend elementary school if there is capacity and teleport there. Teens will also always attend high school if there is capacity but need to travel there to get the education. Young adults will either join the workforce or attend university(and they need to travel there).

The two policies, education boost and schools out increse/decrease the likleyhood of attending university. Happyness, level, education of parents does not matter, distance does not matter as long as the cim can get to a high school/university, which means public transit to these buildings is important. I belive the school they attend also needs to have free capacity(they wont travel to a full school).

Having a elementary/high school/university also increases the likleyhood of the associated educational level moving in to the city if I understand it correctly.

Tldr, make sure you have enough educational facilites and that your cims can get there.