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| endowment        = $112 billion
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| chairman          = Alexan Hovnatania
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| province          = [[Isuriana]]
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| country          = Caphiria
| country          = [[Caphiria]]
| colors            = Fortune Red, Fortune Gray
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'''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.
'''Fortuna Institute''' is a [[Education in Caphiria#University|private research university]] located in [[Isuriana|Isuriana Province]], [[Caphiria]]. Established in 1796, it has produced more politicians, business executives, and world leaders than any other university in Caphiria and 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 wealthy patrician families would go to become educated into proper politicians to ensure the preservation and growth of that family. Over time, due to political instability and economic windfalls, the school slowly eased 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.


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. 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 $50 billion, Fortuna Institute has the largest of any educational institution in Caphiria by far.
==Campus==
==Campus==
[[File:FortunaValley01.png|thumb|left|One of the "central hub" buildings of Fortuna Institute]]
[[File:FortunaValley01.png|thumb|left|One of the "central hub" buildings of Fortuna Institute]]
Fortuna Institute is organized into eight primary campuses with additional faculties that cover the entire district of Inorni in the city [[Deonzanta]]. 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 its 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.


Fortuna Institute is organized into twenty faculties with campuses covering the entire district of Inorni in the city [[Novo-Aro]]. The entire Institute covers a massive 150 square kilometers, with the main campus, Fortune Valley, covering 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 Fortuna-Montini School of Business, commonly known as  "The Chamber", 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.
The six campuses of Fortuna Institute are:
 
* Fortuna Institute of Technology (FIT)
===Fortune Valley===
* Fortuna Department of Research and Higher Education (DRHE)
The courtyard view of Fortune Valley
* Fortuna International Academy of Language and Culture (IALC)
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.
* Palaestrio Bellator Athletic Hall (''Fortuna Field'')
 
* Montini School of Business (''The Chamber'')
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.
* Fortuna Law School (''Fortuna Hall'')
 
Despite being three distinct campuses - the Fortuna Institute of Technology, the Department of Research and Higher Education, and the International Academy of Language and Culture are all physically located across a 209-acre area southwest of Deonzanta. This area is collectively called Fortuna Valley, or the Valley, and is known as the main campus of Fortuna Institute.  
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===
Four miles east of Fortuna Valley lies the Palaestrio Bellator Athletic Hall, also known as Fortuna Field, where the athletic facilities and sports fields are. Fortuna Field covers 46,000 square miles between historical buildings such as Downes-Aldrich House and the Ciduon Va Railway Station and has dozens of facilities, including two 50,000-capacity modular stadiums and an 18.53-acre plaza. The complex includes multiple gymnasiums, training halls, and natatoriums and consists of a children's park, a supermarket, a fitness center, KTV, and a variety of catering spaces. Although Fortuna Field is designed mainly for sports activities, such as basketball, volleyball, tennis, ice hockey, boxing, etc., it can harbor such cultural activities as concerts and congresses.  
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.  
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.  


The inside of one of the gymnasiums
West of the Chamber and nestled right on the Marcatarolo Canal is Fortuna Law School, known as Fortuna Hall.  
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.
===Fortune Valley===
. . .


===The Chamber===  
==== Fortuna Institute of Technology ====
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.
==== Department of Research and Higher Education ====


One of the dining halls
==== International Academy of Language and Culture ====
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===  
===Fortuna Field===
The main building of Fortuna Hall.
[[File:Fortuna Sports05.jpg|thumb|One of the modular stadiums and facilities of Fortuna Field |alt=|left]]
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.


===The Chamber===
[[File:Fortuna Chamber 01.jpg|thumb|The main building of The Chamber|alt=|left]]
. . .
===Fortuna Hall===
[[File:Fortuna Law 01.jpg|thumb|One of the buildings in Fortuna Hall|alt=|left]]
. . .
==Organization and administration==
==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 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 about 100,000 students across 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.
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.
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==
==Academics==
===Admission===
===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.
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 it 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===
===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.
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.
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.
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 coursework. Students graduating in the top 4–5% of the class are awarded degrees ''summa cum laude'', students in the next 15% of the course 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 received Latin honors from 90% in 2004 to 60% in 2005. Moreover, the honors of "Pat Nysdrine 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.
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, it was reported that as many as 42% of incoming freshmen had cheated on homework before entering the university. 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%).


For 2025-26, the school year's 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 a 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 help. Grants total 88% of Fortuna's aid for undergraduate students, with aid also provided by loans (8%) and work-study (4%).
===Research===
===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.
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.


===Libraries and museums===
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 [[Occidental world|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, and the Cimonte Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, specializing in cultural history and civilizations.
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.
== Campus life ==
Fortuna is known for its vibrant campus life, with over 350 student organizations on campus. The university also has a number of a cappella groups, including the Fortuna Din & Tone Deafs, the Fortuna Glee Club, and the Fortuna Harmonizers. The Fortuna Institute Band, known as the "Marching Band," is a student-run organization that performs at home football games and other events.
 
Fortuna has a number of athletic facilities, including the Palaestrio Bellator Athletic Hall, which houses multiple gymnasiums, training halls, and natatoriums. The university also has multiple sports fields and facilities, including two 50,000-capacity modular stadiums and an 18.53-acre plaza. Fortuna fields 41 varsity sports teams, known as the Fortuna Parliament, which compete in the [[Sarpedon Athletic Association]] (SAA). The university has won a total of 36 SAA championships in various sports.


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 [[Occidental world|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.
Fortuna also has a number of social and cultural events, including the annual Fortuna Film Festival, the Spring Fling, and the Fortuna Arts Festival. The university also has a number of student publications, including The Fortuna Tribune, a student-run newspaper, and The Fortuna Record, a student-run podcast.
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Fortuna CentralHub 02.jpg|A "central hub" of Fortuna Institute
File:Fortuna Chamber 01.jpg|Exterior of the main Fortuna Chamber building
File:Fortuna Field 01.jpg|Fortuna Field training facility
File:Fortuna CentralHub 03.jpg|Inside a central hub
File:Fortuna Valley 02.jpg|Inside a Fortuna Valley building
File:Fortuna Sports05.jpg|Modular Fortuna Field stadium and facilities
File:Fortuna Chamber 04.jpg|Inside the main Fortuna Chamber building
File:Fortuna Law 02.jpg|Part of the Fortuna Hall campus
File:Fortuna Valley 05.jpg|Hallway and social space at Fortuna Valley
File:Fortuna Law 04.jpg|Gardens at Fortuna Hall
File:Fortuna Chamber 03.jpg|Entrance to the main Fortuna Chamber building
File:Fortuna Field 02.jpg|Inside a Fortuna Field training facility
File:Fortuna Chamber 05.jpg|Exterior of a Fortuna Chamber building
File:Fortuna Chamber 02.jpg|Inside the main Fortuna Chamber building
File:Fortuna Law 03.jpg|Part of the Fortuna Hall campus
File:Fortuna Valley 03.jpg|Inside a classroom at Fortuna Valley
File:Fortuna Sports04.jpg|Tennis court at a Fortuna Field facility
File:Fortuna Chamber 07.jpg|Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building
File:Fortuna Valley 01.jpg|Fortuna Valley campus
File:Fortuna Sports08.jpg|Inside a Fortuna Field facility
File:Fortuna Chamber 06.jpg|Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building
File:Fortuna Sports0.jpg|Inside a modular Fortuna Field facility
File:Fortuna Chamber 09.jpg|Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building, showing walkways
File:Fortuna Field 04.jpg|Basketball training facility at Fortuna Field
File:Fortuna Chamber 08.jpg|Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building, showing walkways
File:Fortuna Sports02.jpg|Modular Fortuna Field stadium and facilities
File:Fortuna Field 03.jpg|Outside a Fortuna Field facility
File:Fortuna Valley 04.jpg|Atrium at Fortuna Valley
</gallery>
==See also==
[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Colleges]]
[[Category:Colleges]]
[[Category:Caphiria]]
[[Category:Caphiria]]
[[Category:Education in Caphiria]]
[[Category:Education in Caphiria]]
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Fortuna Institute
Latin: Universitatis Fortuna
MottoScientia, Aqua Et Rex
Motto in English
Knowledge, Water And King
TypePrivate - Research
Established14 Aug 1796
Parent institution
The Fortuna Corporation
Endowment$50.6 billion
ChairmanAlexan Hovnatania
ChancellorLudvík Sude
DeanLucia Burcanius
Academic staff
12,150
Students100,000
Undergraduates32,238
Postgraduates44,589
23,173
Location
Deonzanta
,
Isuriana
,
Caphiria
ColorsFortune Red, Fortune Gray
AthleticsICAA D-1
Sports33 varsity teams
MascotKerry the Kebab Killer

Fortuna Institute is a private research university located in Isuriana Province, Caphiria. Established in 1796, it has produced more politicians, business executives, and world leaders than any other university in Caphiria and 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 wealthy patrician families would go to become educated into proper politicians to ensure the preservation and growth of that family. Over time, due to political instability and economic windfalls, the school slowly eased 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. 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 $50 billion, Fortuna Institute has the largest of any educational institution in Caphiria by far.

Campus

One of the "central hub" buildings of Fortuna Institute

Fortuna Institute is organized into eight primary campuses with additional faculties that cover the entire district of Inorni in the city Deonzanta. 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 its 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, the Department of Research and Higher Education, and the International Academy of Language and Culture are all physically located across a 209-acre area southwest of Deonzanta. This area is collectively called Fortuna Valley, or the Valley, and is known as the main campus of Fortuna Institute.

Four miles east of Fortuna Valley lies the Palaestrio Bellator Athletic Hall, also known as Fortuna Field, where the athletic facilities and sports fields are. Fortuna Field covers 46,000 square miles between historical buildings such as Downes-Aldrich House and the Ciduon Va Railway Station and has dozens of facilities, including two 50,000-capacity modular stadiums and an 18.53-acre plaza. The complex includes multiple gymnasiums, training halls, and natatoriums and consists of a children's park, a supermarket, a fitness center, KTV, and a variety of catering spaces. Although Fortuna Field is designed mainly for sports activities, such as basketball, volleyball, tennis, ice hockey, boxing, etc., it can harbor such cultural activities as concerts and congresses.

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.

West of the Chamber and nestled right on the Marcatarolo Canal is Fortuna Law School, known as Fortuna Hall.

Fortune Valley

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Fortuna Institute of Technology

Department of Research and Higher Education

International Academy of Language and Culture

Fortuna Field

One of the modular stadiums and facilities of Fortuna Field

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The Chamber

The main building of The Chamber

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Fortuna Hall

One of the buildings in Fortuna Hall

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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 about 100,000 students across 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 it 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 coursework. Students graduating in the top 4–5% of the class are awarded degrees summa cum laude, students in the next 15% of the course 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 received Latin honors from 90% in 2004 to 60% in 2005. Moreover, the honors of "Pat Nysdrine 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, it was reported that as many as 42% of incoming freshmen had cheated on homework before entering the university. These incidents have prompted the university to consider adopting an honor code.

For 2025-26, the school year's 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 a 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 help. 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, and the Cimonte Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, specializing in cultural history and civilizations.

Campus life

Fortuna is known for its vibrant campus life, with over 350 student organizations on campus. The university also has a number of a cappella groups, including the Fortuna Din & Tone Deafs, the Fortuna Glee Club, and the Fortuna Harmonizers. The Fortuna Institute Band, known as the "Marching Band," is a student-run organization that performs at home football games and other events.

Fortuna has a number of athletic facilities, including the Palaestrio Bellator Athletic Hall, which houses multiple gymnasiums, training halls, and natatoriums. The university also has multiple sports fields and facilities, including two 50,000-capacity modular stadiums and an 18.53-acre plaza. Fortuna fields 41 varsity sports teams, known as the Fortuna Parliament, which compete in the Sarpedon Athletic Association (SAA). The university has won a total of 36 SAA championships in various sports.

Fortuna also has a number of social and cultural events, including the annual Fortuna Film Festival, the Spring Fling, and the Fortuna Arts Festival. The university also has a number of student publications, including The Fortuna Tribune, a student-run newspaper, and The Fortuna Record, a student-run podcast.

Gallery

  • A "central hub" of Fortuna Institute

    A "central hub" of Fortuna Institute

  • Exterior of the main Fortuna Chamber building

    Exterior of the main Fortuna Chamber building

  • Fortuna Field training facility

    Fortuna Field training facility

  • Inside a central hub

    Inside a central hub

  • Inside a Fortuna Valley building

    Inside a Fortuna Valley building

  • Modular Fortuna Field stadium and facilities

    Modular Fortuna Field stadium and facilities

  • Inside the main Fortuna Chamber building

    Inside the main Fortuna Chamber building

  • Part of the Fortuna Hall campus

    Part of the Fortuna Hall campus

  • Hallway and social space at Fortuna Valley

    Hallway and social space at Fortuna Valley

  • Gardens at Fortuna Hall

    Gardens at Fortuna Hall

  • Entrance to the main Fortuna Chamber building

    Entrance to the main Fortuna Chamber building

  • Inside a Fortuna Field training facility

    Inside a Fortuna Field training facility

  • Exterior of a Fortuna Chamber building

    Exterior of a Fortuna Chamber building

  • Inside the main Fortuna Chamber building

    Inside the main Fortuna Chamber building

  • Part of the Fortuna Hall campus

    Part of the Fortuna Hall campus

  • Inside a classroom at Fortuna Valley

    Inside a classroom at Fortuna Valley

  • Tennis court at a Fortuna Field facility

    Tennis court at a Fortuna Field facility

  • Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building

    Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building

  • Fortuna Valley campus

    Fortuna Valley campus

  • Inside a Fortuna Field facility

    Inside a Fortuna Field facility

  • Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building

    Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building

  • Inside a modular Fortuna Field facility

    Inside a modular Fortuna Field facility

  • Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building, showing walkways

    Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building, showing walkways

  • Basketball training facility at Fortuna Field

    Basketball training facility at Fortuna Field

  • Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building, showing walkways

    Outside of a Fortuna Chamber building, showing walkways

  • Modular Fortuna Field stadium and facilities

    Modular Fortuna Field stadium and facilities

  • Outside a Fortuna Field facility

    Outside a Fortuna Field facility

  • Atrium at Fortuna Valley

    Atrium at Fortuna Valley

See also

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