Albrecht University
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| Albrecht University | |
| Motto: "Sub Cruce Lumen (It's dark down here, isn't it?)" | |
| Nationality | Candelaria And Marquez |
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| Main Campus | Hill Side, Albrecht |
| Secondary Campus(es) | Other Albrecht locations, & Bove |
| Established | 1871 |
| Chancellor | Caleb Reed |
| Mascot | Something twee |
Albrecht University is the oldest such institute in the Candelaria And Marquez and also the largest. Modelled originally on the British style, it is considered also the most traditional when compared to the bohemian Onwere University and the thoroughly modern University of Arrigo. Albrecht has the largest proportion of students per capita of any large settlement in C&M.
The university is dominated by its college structure, each of which operates as semi-autonomous bodies with their own faculties. Today, it comprises ten colleges which hold autonomy over tutorials and classes - the university proper controls lectures, examinations, laboratories and the central library. Each college caters for several hundred undergraduates, and a varying number of graduates.
All colleges offer faculties in most major educational areas, though all specialise in certain areas;
- University College: Law, Arts, Religious Studies
- St. Mary's College: Arts and Architecture
- New College: Economics and Business, Music
- New Hall: Politics, Philosophy, Economics and Business
- Mathieu’s College: Science, Engineering, Computer Science,
- Gifton College: Education, Law
- Royal College of Albrecht: Agriculture, Vetinary Medicine
- Rupert Haining College: History, Education
- National College of Medicine: Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Midwifery (NCM campus is in Bove)
- People's College: Languages, Sociology, Anthopology
Historically, many of the country's most talented students have gone abroad for their higher education, mostly to neighbouring nations in Rushmore. Today however, vast and rapid improvements in C&M’s educational attainment at all levels have seen a much higher percentage of young citizens choosing to remain in the country. Such a shift - with less able students increasingly attending the country's several dozen polytechnics - has seen the AU's international reputation rise considerably. The student population now includes 9% of attendees who were born abroad, and while a full half of these are C&M citizens, many young people from Rushmore and the wider world are opting for the AU.
The historic areas of the AU are in what has become known as University Town, a college village near the Hill Side district. University College and New College are also to be found here, the other eight such dotted around Albrecht, and in the case of the National College of Medicine, Bove.
Albrecht University Library
Together with the National Library and the Library of Arrigo; the Auld Drippy is one of C&M's three legal deposit libraries (where a copy of each book copyrighted in the country must be deposited). Its treasure trove of assorted Stuff may include a Gutenburg Bible, though none of the self-consciously gothic librarians that run the place have seen it for a good six years.
