So, you're a new player, looking at the University.

You're wondering what in the name of god INT does.
Well, INT increases success chance for crimes, your gym gains and the more INT you have, the more INT you gain. This goes exponentially so faster over time. 
The maximum is 1000 at this time. (25-09-2023)
Edit 23/10/2023 - Properties have been added. If you own a museum you can get up to +50 on top of the 1000 cap for each upgrade level.
Max upgrade is lvl 4 with the most expensive property. That means the INT cap can be 1200 in total.

It's not worth pumping any of your energy into the university until you have at least 70 INT.
Put your energy into the gym for now. Don't try to balance all 4 stats but pick 3 of them. My personal balance is 35% str/35% def/10% agility/20% accuracy

Back to the guide.

I see you thinking: 'Well, Jari, how am I ever going to get that if you're telling me to not put any E into INT?'

The answer is the medical degree. You will get 5 at first, but the further you progress, the more you get.
On to the guide.

Edit 05/03/2024 It has come to my attention (thank you Renals) that there is a starter mission that gives you 10 INT

Day 1-7 Follow MED-1000. This will get you 5 INT.
Day 7-21 Follow MED-1020. Your total will be 10 INT now.

From here on the courses will take longer but you will also get more Intelligence.

Day 21-28 Follow MED-1030. Your total will be 20 INT.
Day 28-42 Follow MED-1050. Your total will be 30 INT.
Day 42-56 Follow MED-1080. Your total will be 40 INT.

The courses will take even longer from this day.

Day 56-84 Follow MED-1210. Your total will be 55 INT.
Day 84-102 Follow MED-1220. Your total will be 70 int.

Stop putting energy in the gym and focus on INT now.
Once you gain more reputation, you'll gain more money because of the productions.

It's time for the final course.

Day 102-147 Follow MED-2100. Your total will be (at least) 95 INT.

After day 147, if possible, get a donator pack. The 100 energy boost from 100 - 200 will be huge

From this day on, pump at least 400 energy each day into INT. 

Courses V2

I'll ignore INT gains with energy for the next courses. The amount of INT you have will most likely be higher.

Day 147-154 Follow BM-1000. You'll have 100 int.
Day 154-168 Follow BM-1010. You'll have 105 int.
Day 168-182 Follow BM-1020. You'll have 110 int.
Day 182-196 Follow BM-1030. You'll have 115 int.
Day 196-210 Follow BM-1040. You'll have 120 int.
Day 210-238 Follow BM-1050. You'll have 125 int.
Day 238-283 Follow BM-1060. You'll have 135 int.

Your real amount of Intelligence will be much higher at this time, but the bonusses are worth it.

This can be achieved by simply waiting for your energy to refill, this will take 5 hours and 30 minutes for 0 - 200 or 2 hours and 45 minutes for 0-100.

If you subscribe to the game you will get 100 points every month. This is a nice bonus since you can use 25 points every day for an energy refill.

You can also buy 25 points every day at the Premium Warehouse or an unlimited amount at the Item Market. This will cost you around 1-1.2 million for 25 points.
Later in the game, when you get more reputation and more money, buy Cocaine from the Item Market. If your money isn't where it should be and you're poor . (=D) You can trade production materials.
Coca paste and Agave hearts are the most sought after. 

This will be around 500-650k for 1 bag AT THE TIME OF WRITING.
Once you reach 160.000 reputation you can produce your own coke, but this will be a long way off.

You can use 8 bags a day. After that your cooldown will be 24 h and you cannot use drugs anymore.
Make sure to use 1 bag > INT train, 1 more bag > INT train, 1 bag> INT train.

It's possible to overdose. This is why you only use 1 bag at a time.
You'll spend 6 hours in hospital if you do and the drug cooldown will be 40-44 hours.
The chance to OD is about 2%.

 Keep doing this until you reach the magic number of 1000 INT.

The below graph gives you a rough idea of the progress.

Thanks for reading. 

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This is by far the best in depth int guide.

I highly recommend it. I my self use this strategy and it does benefit alot.

Well written! 

A+ on this guide.  I came to the same conclusions as well.  Int isn't really worth dumping alot until 70 ish and then you can start doing 400 e ish a day and it's beneficial.  And then slowly increase that as you complete courses. That was my strat so far anyway.  Great guide 

Fantastic writeup!

/The new dude

Very in-depth guide! Great for new players 

great guide just one thing to note the 1020 course on week 2 is 2 weeks long not 1 week

Love it, the new players will die for this!

Could anyone please explain why we only go for 3 out of 4 battle stats? Why we can't build our BS like making a barrel.

Could anyone please explain why we only go for 3 out of 4 battle stats? Why we can't build our BS like making a barrel.

MSLOCKSMITH - 01/01/1970, 00:00:00

For instance, a person with 1 million strength, 1 million accuracy and 1 million defence and 500.000 agility will tank the hits instead of migating the damage. You'll take less damage than a player doing 25/25/25/25 (875.000 ea) while hitting more and harder. Also works for multiple builds, just in other ways.