This renowned institution has long produced many of the best-educated men and women in the civilized world. It has rigorous entrance requirements and offers scholarships to excellent students from distant lands or poor households.
The main buildings of the college are centered around the area shown on the map. But certain parts of the school are scattered throughout other small buildings in Clerkburg and even beyond, for the small observatory of the Astronomy School is located outside Clerk's Gate.
The largest buildings o the College are the Hall of the Dean, College Hall and Timber Hall.
The Hall of the Dean is the largest: its tower is visible along the Processional for much of it's length. It is a mazelike building of classes, libraries, laboratories, closets and storerooms. Like a grad mansion it rambles up and down wide staircases, with here the faculty offices of the School of Geography and there the laboratory complex of the School of Alchemy. Since it is the original college building, all departments are represented here, but none is entirely contained here.
The cellar under the Hall of the Dean is a pleasant, quiet tavern and restaurant. Its prices are very high but students and faculty of any school or tutorial service in Clerkburg are granted a 90% discount. It has become the focal point of literary discussion and liberal ideas within the city. Those not associated with the college community in some way rarely come here.
College Hall is a building of fine, classic, architecture. Here are the offices of the faculty, the college library, and some classrooms and meeting halls. Timber Hall, the other structure, is an uninspired block of brown boards, containing most of the classrooms of the college.
Other classes, most notably the Scool of Music's chambers for both instrumental and vocal education, and the School of Sculture's studios are spread among the smaller buildings on the university's parklike grounds.
Grey College has an average of about 400 students during a term. Like the other colleges in the city, a Grey College term begins a month after Midsummer, and ends the following year a month before Midsummer. During the intervening 10 months, classes and school exercises are pursued six days a week, every week except for a break of a week or two in midwinter.
The college offers courses of study ranging from two to eight years in duration. Its schools encompass most of the great realms of learning - Alchemy, Engineering, Healing, Geography, Economy, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Theater, Literature, and History.
Tuition varies, based on the level of program sought. It begins at about 50 gp for the first term. The total tends to double each subsequent year, so the later years of schooling become very expensive.
However, each student can be assured of receiving instruction from knowledgeable and motivated professors. Classes are small, with individual attention common during the later years of schooling.
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