Fortuna Institute

Fortuna Institute is a private research university located in Isuriana, Caphiria. Established in 1796, it has produced more politicians, business executives and world leaders than any other university in Caphiria and quite possibly the world. Ran by the Fortuna Corporation, Fortuna Institute has been one of the most elite places of higher learning due to its longstanding ties with nobility. The school was originally designed to be a place where the children of Noble families would go to learn to be a proper nobleman, a proper politician to ensure the preservation and growth of that family. Over time, due to political instability and economic windfalls, the school slowly eased on its harsh restrictions and has become a liberal arts haven.

The nominal cost of attendance is extremely high though due to its large endowment it offers gracious financial aid packages for students who would otherwise never step foot on campus ground. It operates dozens of arts, cultural and scientific museums, as well as the free-to-the-public Fortuna Library located in the Liburnian District. With an endowment crossing $100 billion, Fortuna Institute has the largest of any educational institution in Caphiria by far.

Campus


Fortuna Institute is organized into eight primary campuses with additional faculties that cover the entire district of Inorni in the city Novo-Aro. The entire Institute covers 37,065 acres, making it the largest-school in the world. Each campus is unique in design and over time has developed their own individual subculture. Across each campus are several "central hubs" which serve as universal meeting places for students. They are multi-purpose and are used for studying, events, parties, socializing, eating, and more.

The six campuses of Fortuna Institute are:


 * Fortuna Institute of Technology (FIT)
 * Fortuna Department of Research and Higher Education (DRHE)
 * Fortuna International Academy of Language and Culture (IALC)
 * Palaestrio Bellator Athletic Hall (Fortuna Field)
 * Montini School of Business (The Chamber)
 * Fortuna Law School (Fortuna Hall)

Despite being three distinct campuses, the Fortuna Institute of Technology, Department of Research and Higher Education, and International Academy of Language and Culture are all physically located across a 209 acre area southwest of Novo-Aro. This area is collectively called Fortuna Valley, or the Valley, and is known as the main campus of Fortuna Institute.

Four miles to the east of Fortuna Valley lies the Palaestrio Bellator Athletic Hall, also known as Fortuna Field, where the athletics facilities and sports fields are. Fortuna Field covers 46,000 square miles and has dozens of sports facilities, two 50,000 capacity modular stadiums, and an 18.53 acre plaza.

North of Fortuna Field is the Montini School of Business, commonly known as "The Chamber" for its iconic main building. The Chamber consists of three building plazas situated on 25 acres.

nestled right on the Marcatarolo Canal is Fortuna Law School, known as Fortuna Hall.

Fortuna Field
The Palaestrio Bellator Athletic Hall covers 46,000 square miles between historical buildings such as Downes-Aldrich House and the Ciduon Va Railway Station. Being at the center of the old city of Eleuia, Fortuna Field was designed to preserve the history of the region while taking advantage of the ideal location. An 18.53 acre plaza serves as a central meeting point and an event space for students, athletes, and other residents, -with its way leading towards the Railway Station. The plaza also contains the Fortuna Cultural Center and a youth entertainment park.

Although the building is designed mainly for sports activities, such as basketball, volleyball, tennis, ice hockey, boxing, etc., it can harbor such cultural activities like concerts and congresses. It meets all the design criteria put out by Sarpedon Basketball League. Furthermore, it follows universal design principles; disabled and elderly people and families with children can easily access and circulate throughout the building. There are private lodges for the disabled. The tribunes are designed via the development of parabolic sections in order to develop an equal angle of vision for every audience. A significant landscape planning was developed, with a considerable amount of tree, for not only the area itself but also the surrounding approach routes.

The Chamber
The Chamber is located in the south and is a centralized hub of activity, creating a diversity of transparent settings, planned spatially around a central three-story atrium space.The building’s architecture reflects contemporary trends and innovations in the workplace sector, now being increasingly adopted in business education. These foster collaboration through transparency, drive student knowledge through experiential learning and perpetuate innovation through designated meeting spaces, group work, spontaneous encounters and quiet individual reflection. An equal focus was spent on the careful design of the academic workplaces. This is increasingly becoming a focus of university communities because of the growing pressure on the need for research. In particular, this has led to a renewed interest in the notion of collegiality and the potential for unstructured intellectual exchange.

At Fortuna's business school, the result is a contemporary take on the traditional ‘club’. While the core need for collegiality remains, academics in today’s university environments can do without the typical social and cultural inhibitors associated with traditional clubs – exclusivity, a closed-door policy, isolation, and structure. Instead, the workplace at Fortuna's business school fosters unstructured transitional process – the same processes of collaboration, innovation, and connectivity that underpin the private sector. Rigorous education-specific space auditing combined with the solid consultation process resulted in a 10 percent saving in space from the original brief which was reinvested in a number of ways, such as: – the creation of a new collaborative and collegiate workplace model for academics; – new learning environments such as collaborative social spaces and breakout spaces; and – chilled beam climate control.

The facility provides a single location for various business faculties formerly housed in several buildings on and off the Fortuna Campus and includes formal and informal IT-enabled learning environments that support project-based learning and encourage collaboration. The provision of a cafe, service centers, study carrels and syndicate rooms enable seamless process to learning and extended hours of activity.

Fortuna Hall
The campus for the Fortuna Institute's most prestigious law school comprises of a 43,000 square foot complex dedicated to the education and the research. It's open in an economical and social environment in partnership with the a large roster of companies onboard a joint-venture program. Built in the Arbolo Gardens, the installation of the new buildings overhang of the existing parking area guarantees the durability of the woods. The present buildings are rehabilitated.

The work spaces are functional and answer to the comfort expected for the users and innovative services such as an e-learning platform, research laboratories, and even an incubator are available. But the specific feature of the campus is the ability to "offer more". The distension of the distribution spaces magnifies the space more. The areas of free movement become independent work spaces or places of exchanges. These spaces receive associations, companies, and institution when punctual events happen in the campus calendar. The opening of the campus to the city allow a more informal way of exchanges. The amphitheater and the restaurant are available for the resident of the city. The sports hub open is door to the associations of the borough. The park generates a place for a walk opened to everybody.

Organization and administration
The Fortuna Institute, as well as virtually all of Caphiria's prestigious higher and lower education schools, is governed by the Fortuna Corporation. The Fortuna Corporation hires staff and faculty, maintains facilities, and handles higher administrative duties. Fortuna Institute employs over 12,000 staff and faculty who instruct a total of about 100,000 students across the many schools.

The school colors are Fortune Red and Fortune Gray, which can be traced back to before the formation of the school and has deep symbolic meaning.

Fortuna Institute has the largest university endowment in the world, by far. As of 2020, Fortuna Institute had a total financial aid reserve of $400 million for students.

Admission
Undergraduate admission to Fortuna is characterized as "more selective, lower transfer-in". Fortuna accepted 3.3% of applicants for the class of 2030, a record low and the second lowest acceptance rate among all national universities. Fortuna Institute ended its early admissions program in 2027 as the program was believed to disadvantage low-income and underrepresented minority applicants applying to selective universities, yet for the class of 2030 an Early Action program was reintroduced.

Teaching and learning
Fortuna is a large, highly residential research university. The university has been accredited by the Caphirian Association of Schools and Colleges since 1929. The university offers 46 undergraduate concentrations (majors), 134 graduate degrees, and 40 professional degrees. For the 2029–2030 academic year, Fortuna granted 1,664 baccalaureate degrees, 800 master's degrees, 5120 doctoral degrees, and 4,460 professional degrees.

The four-year, full-time undergraduate program comprises a minority of enrollments at the university and emphasizes instruction with an "arts and sciences focus". Between 1978 and 2008, entering students were required to complete a core curriculum of seven classes outside of their concentration. Since 2008, undergraduate students have been required to complete courses in eight General Education categories: Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, Culture and Belief, Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, Ethical Reasoning, Science of Living Systems, Science of the Physical Universe, Societies of the World, and Caphiria in the World. Fortuna offers a comprehensive doctoral graduate program and there is a high level of coexistence between graduate and undergraduate degrees.

Fortuna's academic programs operate on a semester calendar beginning in early September and ending in mid-May. Undergraduates typically take four half-courses per term and must maintain a four-course rate average to be considered full-time. In many concentrations, students can elect to pursue a basic program or an honors-eligible program requiring a senior thesis and/or advanced course work. Students graduating in the top 4–5% of the class are awarded degrees summa cum laude, students in the next 15% of the class are awarded magna cum laude, and the next 30% of the class are awarded cum laude. Fortuna has chapters of academic honor societies and various committees and departments also award several hundred named prizes annually. Fortuna, along with other universities, has been accused of grade inflation, although there is evidence that the quality of the student body and its motivation have also increased. Fortuna Institute reduced the number of students who receive Latin honors from 90% in 2004 to 60% in 2005. Moreover, the honors of "Pat Cronin Scholar" and "Fortuna College Scholar" will now be given only to the top 5 percent and the next 5 percent of each class.

University policy is to expel students engaging in academic dishonesty to discourage a "culture of cheating." In 2024, dozens of students were expelled for cheating after an investigation of more than 120 students.In 2025, there was a report that as many as 42% of incoming freshmen had cheated on homework prior to entering the university, and these incidents have prompted the university to consider adopting an honor code.

For the 2025-26 school year annual tuition was $63,000, with a total cost of attendance of $88,000. Beginning in 2030, families with incomes below $60,000 pay nothing for their children to attend, including room and board. Families with incomes between $60,000 to $80,000 pay only few-thousand dollars a year, and families earning between $120,000 and $180,000 pay no more than 10% of their annual incomes. In 2009, Fortuna offered grants totaling $414 million across all eleven divisions; $340 million came from institutional funds, $35 million from federal support, and $39 million from other outside support. Grants total 88% of Fortuna's aid for undergraduate students, with aid also provided by loans (8%) and work-study (4%).

Research
Fortuna is a founding member of the Association of Sarpedonic Universities and remains a research university with "very high" research activity and a "comprehensive" doctoral program across the arts, sciences, engineering, and medicine. Research and development expenditures in 2014 totaled $69.7 billion.

Libraries and museums
The Fortuna Institute Library System is centered in Forte Bilbiotheca in Fortuna Hall and comprises nearly 80 individual libraries holding over 18 million volumes. There are rare books, manuscripts and other special collections throughout Fortuna's libraries; Apex Library, Labyrinth Bilbiotheca and Paragon Library, and the Fortuna University Archives consist principally of rare and unique materials.

Fortuna operates several arts, cultural, and scientific museums. The Fortuna Art Museums comprises three museums. The Aeos Museum includes collections of ancient Caphirian, Latin and later Vannoisian art, the Revelation Museum, formerly the Oracle Museum, covers central and northern Sarpedonic art, and the Tempest Museum of Art, covers Western art from the Middle Ages to the present emphasizing Latin early Renaissance, Vannosian pre-imperial, and 19th-century Ghantish art. The Fortuna Museum of Natural History includes the Fortuna Mineralogical Museum, Fortuna University Herbaria featuring the Milanepi Glass Flowers exhibit, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Other museums include the Forte Center for the Visual Art, housing the film archive, the Cimonte Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, specializing in the cultural history and civilizations.