Fortuna Institute

Fortuna Institute

Latin: Universitatis Fortuna
Motto	Scientia, Aqua Et Rex
Motto in English	Knowledge, Water And King
Type	Private - Research
Established	14 Aug 1796
Parent institution	The Fortuna Corporation
Endowment	$112 billion
Chairman	Alexan Hovnatania
Chancellor	Ludvík Sude
Dean	Lucia Burcanius
Academic staff	12,150
Students	100,000
Undergraduates	32,238
Postgraduates	44,589
Doctoral students	23,173
Location	Novo-Aro , Isuriana , Caphiria
Colors	Fortune Red, Fortune Gray
Athletics	ICAA D-1
Sports	33 varsity teams
Mascot	Kerry the Kebab Killer

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.

Campus

The Institute is organized into twenty faculties with campuses covering the entire district of Inorni in the city Novo-Aro. Though the entire Institute covers a massive 150 square kilometers, the main campus Fortune Valley covers roughly 209 acres, southwest of Novo-Aro. Four miles to the east lies Fortuna Field, where the athletics facilities and sports fields are. North of that is The Chamber, Fortuna's business school and nestled right on the Marcatarolo Canal is Fortuna Hall, the law school. With an endowment crossing $100 billion, Fortuna Institute has the largest of any educational institution in Caphiria by far.

Fortune Valley

The courtyard view of Fortune Valley Nestled in the hills of north Novo-Aro, Fortune Valley is often considered the main campus as The Institute of Technology (IUT) program, The Department of Research and Higher Education (PRES), and The International House of Languages and Culture are all housed in Fortune Valley. The structure of the building within the block provides for a clear separation between the different areas of the IUT and PRES. The individual components are encompassed in a compact ring around a spacious landscaped courtyard, which portrays a representative and quiet building block edge to the outside of the cityscape. The courtyard with its tiered patio areas functions as an open "Forum" promoting communication between the individual institutions.

The uniform block structure at the main entrance is deliberately broken, as the autonomous block of the PRES significantly protrudes in plan and height. A gem-like exterior layer of adjustable vertical glass panels is used in the building ring-seemingly without touching it- thus contributing to its function and location opposite the existing University Construction Office.

The inside of a classroom in Fortune Valley The ground floor and the first floor are reserved for the entrance hall, the dining hall, and the classrooms. In the standard floors are offices, conference rooms, and student apartments. The auditorium is embedded low in the center of the block creating space for a large terrace above, which is linked via seating steps through the courtyard. The rich greenery of the patio creates an oasis within the compact urban structure that makes the "viridi et cogitantium loco meditationis" a significant part of the urban university life.

Fortuna Field

An overview of the 18.53 acre sports plaza The Palaestrio Belletor Athletic Hall -with 50,000 people capacity- is built on a 46,000 square mile land, which is located in the zone reserved for sports activities through the master planning of Novo-Aro. The 53,000 sq mi. building is between historical buildings, such as Downes-Aldrich House and the Ciduon Va Railway Station. Being at the center of the old city of Eleuia, it is designed considering the particularities of a special context and its urban life. Firstly, a relationship was sought between the surrounding regions by implementing an urban plaza as a meeting point and an event space for inhabitants, -with its way leading towards the Railway Station. In addition, a pedestrian axis -surrounded by trees in both sides- is designed to start a relationship in between the zone which harbors the Fortuna Cultural Center and the one which harbors the youth entertainment park. The building has no boundaries, like fences or gates. Unlike typical sports halls that become a vacant place in times when there is not any sports activity taking place, The Palaestrio Belletor Athletic Hall is part of a living city with its plazas and walkways. It is possible to access the place through public transport, like metro, bus or train. The number of car parking is put to a minimum in order to enhance arrival through walking and public transport.

Secondly, rather than accomplishing an introverted typology, an extroverted design was considered. A transparent facade and terraces on certain levels were designed in order to render inhabitants develop visual relationships with the city in every direction. Diverse architectural elements, which are put layer by layer from the outside to the inside, such as tension rods, white horizontal sunshades, orange vertical sunshades, curtain wall, brut concrete columns, white foyer walls, green colored entrances, orange public toilet walls, increase the depth of view from the outside to the foyer walls behind.

The inside of one of the gymnasiums 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 main entrance to 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.

One of the dining halls 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 main building of 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.

One of the numerous lecture classrooms. 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.

Academics

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.