Randall Bay College
Randall Bay College
71 1st Street, Thelonious
Industry: Education
Entity type: Part-private, non-profit
Product: Secondary education
Specialties: Industrial engineering, financial theoretics, cinematographic arts
Enrollment: 19,500
Colors: Conifer, Blue Gem
Revenue: 2,100,000μ/AU
The Randall Bay College (RBC) is a private institution of secondary education located in Thelonious. Prospective students interested in degree programs in certain specialty areas, including industrial engineering, financial theoretics, and cinematographic arts, find RBC to be an alluring school thanks to the strength of the instruction in these courses of study at the college.
RBC attracts many of its 19,500 students from the southern half of the Randall Bay Megalopolitan Complex as well as the greater Modal Peninsula. Acolytes seeking the most specific of the highly-acclaimed specialty degree programs the school offers, however, have been known to travel from across eastern Illuminatia to attend the college.
Students attending Randall Bay College, as with those attending most institutions of education which are not fully public, are not qualified to receive a full subsidy of their tuition-related expenses from the Bureau of Education and Enlightenment (BEE), and as such, the college's annual 2,100,000μ/AU revenue largely comes from private donations, sponsorship, and other forms of earned income. Per Office of Assessment and Placement (OAP) policy, graduates of RBC are afforded partial participation in the Occupational and Instructional Productivity and Placement System which the OAP manages. As with all educational institutions, Randall Bay College remains under the full regulatory oversight of the BEE's Office of Curriculum and Programming (OCP) in respects to curriculum and pedagogy.
Students at RBC are known to comply with and affirm an informal tradition of taking part in a rowing expedition across the waters of Randall Bay with a destination of opposite shore at Anthem, where they, per convention, deliver formal messages of disrespect and discourtesy to their peer pupils at Third Peninsula University. This tradition of frivolity has been maintained since the founding of both schools. According to custom, a student is expected to make this journey, either individually or, more commonly, as a part of a team, at any point during their academic career so long as it occurs before their matriculation. Students most often embark on these expeditions on days on which classes are not in session in convoys of paddle boats or kayaks. Maritime traffic anticipates the regularity of these expeditions and diverts traffic as to not coincide with the smaller human-powered watercraft. The traditional route involves rowing or paddling directly northeast across a narrower part of the bay toward a point in between Maiden Voyage and Blue Skies, before following close to the shore in a southeasterly direction toward downtown Anthem, where they exit their boats and walk a short distance to the campus of Third Peninsula University. TPU students then receive the visitors from RBC, providing an attentive and conscientious audience for the visitors' remarks, before returning to their dormitories. RBC students, often somewhat exhausted by their adventure, will frequently spend the night in Anthem, arrange for transportation of the watercraft back to their origin point, and then will board some more-passive form of public transportation back to Thelonious so they can arrive back at their college before classes resume the next day.