Dummy’s Guide to Education

Education is a part of Torn where you can unlock certain areas of the game and earn passive gains. You can also gain a small amount of job stats with education.

I always recommend you are doing an education course. They are very cheap and they will take a while to complete, so the sooner you start the better. It will take years to finish all of the education courses.

Completing all of the education courses will cost you 225,785 dollars. This is incredibly cheap considering that it takes years to complete education. If it took you 6.75 years (without any upgrades) to complete all of the education courses you would only have to spend 92 dollars every day.

What is an introduction course?

An introduction course is a course that you must complete before starting all the other courses in that area. Introductions will always take 1 week to complete, and will always cost 200 dollars.

What is a bachelor course?

A bachelor course is the final course in an area. To be able to start this, you need to complete all the other education courses in that one area. A bachelor will always unlock an unique bonus or location. You will have to spend 5,000 dollars to start this, and it will take 5-7 weeks to complete, depending on which course you choose.

How do I reduce education time?

• Spend merits to decrease education, giving up to a 20% decrease in education time.
• Join a 1 star Fitness Center or a 7 star Hair Salon, where at that point you can unlock a job special, which will let you use one job point to subtract 30 minutes of time from your current education time. Joining a 10 star company of either type will let you get rid of 5 hours of education time every 24 hours, if you spend all your job points on that.
• Getting to the rank of "Principal" in the Education starter job, will give you a passive bonus of -10% education time.
• A Book of Christmas Carols will let you get you past 2 hours of education time, but right now buying this on the item market will cost you 14 million. You can also find this in Christmas Town, but you might as well sell it.
• Purchasing 1 million shares of West Side South Bank University Block on the Stock Market will reduce your education time by 10%. To unlock the Stock Market you need to spend 20 points.

Biology Courses

• Takes 31 weeks to complete without any upgrades
• 26,150 dollars
• 50 manual labor
• 725 intelligence
• 280 endurance
• +1% damage bonus for all weapons
• +20% medical item effectiveness
• +10% damage bonus on the neck
• Decrease stealth of opponent
• +5% chance of achieving a critical hit
• Withdraw blood and deliver blood

The bachelor course unlocks the Pharmacy, which lets you buy medical items. You can also equip life and stat boosters to your temporary item slot.

Drawing blood is a great way to make passive money because you can sell it on the item market. It takes away some of your life I believe though, so don't do it while chaining or attacking.

Business Management Courses

• Takes 37 weeks of time without any upgrades
• 12,800 dollars
• 75 manual labor
• 880 intelligence
• 220 endurance
• +10% productivity for your company
• +12% employee effectiveness
• Increase in advertising effectiveness
• Increase product prices by 15% without losing customers
• Passive bonus to employee working stats

The bachelor course unlocks new size, storage size, and staff room upgrades for your company.

The business management courses are made for company directors, so only do these if you are one or going to become one soon. Remember, becoming a company director is a big responsibility!

Combat Training Courses

• Takes 26 weeks to complete without any upgrades
• 29,950 dollars
• 290 manual labor
• 845 intelligence
• No endurance
• +1% hit rate
• +5% accuracy for every gun, including heavy artillery

The bachelor course unlocks weapon experience, which lets you become better at certain weapons the more you use them, increasing damage and accuracy.

These are great for people who love to attack, bounty hunt, and chain of course.

Computer Science Courses

• Takes 31 weeks to complete without any upgrades
• 20,150 dollars
• 25 manual labor
• 1,460 intelligence
• 435 endurance
• Code simple, polymorphic, tunneling, armored, and stealth viruses with a laptop or computer
• Gain access to hacking crimes
• +30% decrease in virus coding times
• +10% increase in hacking crime success rate

The bachelor course lets you send cash and mail anonymously to anyone you want. The computer science courses are mainly for the 18 nerve hacking crime.

This is great for people who want to get the 5,000 hacking crime merit.

General Studies Courses

• Takes 28 weeks to complete without any upgrades
• 19,010 dollars
• 310 manual labor
• 760 intelligence
• 295 endurance
• Gain access to driving crimes
• +10% hit increase for temporary items
• +15% hunting bonus

The bachelor course gives a 10% increase to all work stat gains for all the further education courses. This may seem like you should do this one first, but in the end the working stat increase for the amount of time spent is way too small, so do not worry about it.

These are great for people who want to get the drug crime merits, because otherwise you should not do drug crimes due to the high failure rate.

Health and Fitness Courses

• Takes 23 weeks to complete without any upgrades
• 15,450 dollars
• 790 manual labor
• 20 intelligence
• 340 endurance
• +2% bonus to dexterity
• +4% bonus to speed
• +3% bonus to strength

The bachelor course gives a +25% increase in speed when your opponent tries to escape. This one has probably the most useless bachelor course, so do it for the gym gains then move on to other courses.

This is great for increasing your battle stats.

History Courses

• Takes 25 weeks to complete without any upgrades
• 11,150 dollars
• 120 manual labor
• 325 intelligence
• 320 endurance
• +10% damage increase with japanese weapons, so kodachi swords and samurai swords I assume
• +2% melee damage
• Ability to find medieval coins, Asians sculptures, pages from the Quran, Senet board pieces, and amulets.

The bachelor course unlocks the museum.

If you travel, you need to unlock the museum. You make way much more money by trading in plushies and flowers for points then anywhere else. You can also buy plushies and flowers on the market, and then trade them in at the museum and you will still make a profit.

What is the museum?

The museum is a location in the city where you can exchange certain artifacts and collectibles for points. A set is made up of one of each item (sometimes multiple of a certain item is needed) in that set.

Plushie Set = 10 points = at least 500,000

Exotic Flower Set = 10 points = at least 500,000

Medieval Coin Set = 100 points = at least 5,000,000

Vairocana Buddha = 100 points = at least 5,000,000

Ganesha Sculpture = 250 points = at least 12,500,000

Shabti Sculpture = 500 points = at least 25,000,000

Quran Scripts = 1,000 points = at least 50,000,000

Senet Game Set = 2,000 points = at least 100,000,000

Egyptian Amulet = 10,000 points = at least 500,000,000

Law Courses

• Takes 40 weeks to complete without any upgrades
• 28,745 dollars
• No manual labor
• 1,120 intelligence
• 220 endurance
• Reduce chance of getting caught while trying to bust someone
• Buy yourself and others out of jail while you are also jailed
• +5% discount when buying properties from Estate Agents
• +15% skill in busting
• +15% discount when bailing people out of jail
• Use less nerve when trying to escape from jail
• Gain increase in advertising effectiveness for your company

The bachelor course makes busting 50% easier and bailing 50% cheaper.

Overall the law courses are pretty useless, because when in jail you will typically be broken out by someone extremely soon. You will only want to do part of this if you own a company or want to soon. However, this will help with the busting merits that are required.

Mathematics Courses

• Takes 35 weeks to complete without any upgrades
• 14,070 dollars
• 20 manual labor
• 990 intelligence
• 435 endurance
• +2% bonus to speed
• +3% bonus to defense
• +1% productivity for your company
• +5% bonus to ammo management

The bachelor course will give you a +30% bonus to ammo management.

These are great for people who want high battle stats, and like to use guns as their main weapons to save a bit on ammo.

Psychology Courses

• Takes 24 weeks to complete without any upgrades
• 12,180 dollars
• 65 manual labor
• 688 intelligence
• 25 endurance
• +15% bonus to dexterity
• +10% increase to awareness (chance of finding items in city)

The bachelor course will give you a +10% crime success rate.

These are great for people who like to do crimes.

Self Defense Courses

• Takes 22 weeks to complete without any upgrades
• 17,500 dollars
• 885 manual labor
• 60 intelligence
• 485 endurance
• +6% bonus to defence
• +5% bonus to speed
• Unlock kick attack

The bachelor course gives you a +100% increase in fist damage in a fight.

Self Defense is great for people for people who like to roleplay as ninjas, but otherwise they are good for battle stats.

Sports Science Courses

• 29 weeks
• 18,630 dollars
• 470 manual labor
• 185 intelligence
• 300 endurance
• +1% bonus to strength gains
• +1% bonus to speed gains
• +1% bonus to defense gains
• +1% bonus to dexterity gains
• +10% increase in effectiveness of temporary weapons
• +2% bonus to speed, strength, defense, and dexterity
• Unlock the sports shop

The bachelor course gives you a +1% increase to all further gym gains.

This is the first education courses I recommend you complete, because the sooner you do them the more you will benefit in the long run.

Honor Bars

You get a honor bar for every bachelor course you finish. Apparently there are 3 others, but I could find out what they were. I will look more into it later.

Conclusion

There are a bunch of paths that you can choose to go down, and I will not tell you which one to go down. You can look at this and choose for yourself. I hope this guide made your life easier.

If you have any ideas or suggestions, please comment below and I will respond in <1 day.

Edit
8/21/2019 - About a year or so back, I quit Torn. So, if there are any changes made to education in the future then this guide will no longer be accurate. As I write this, I believe the guide is still 100% accurate. It's great to see many new players have found this guide at least semi-useful. Good luck!