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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==

[[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.  

The six campuses of Fortuna Institute are:  

* Fortuna Institute of Technology (FIT)

* Fortuna Department of Research and Higher Education (DRHE)

* 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.  

===Fortune Valley===

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===Fortuna Field===

[[File:Fortuna Sports05.jpg|thumb|One of the modular stadiums and facilities of Fortuna Field |alt=|left]]

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===The Chamber===

[[File:Fortuna Chamber 01.jpg|thumb|The main building of The Chamber|alt=|left]]

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===Fortuna Hall===

[[File:Fortuna Law 01.jpg|thumb|One of the buildings in Fortuna Hall|alt=|left]]

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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.

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.

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 [[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.

==Gallery==

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