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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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.  

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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%).

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.

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.