Illuminatian University of Science and Industry
Illuminatian University of Science and Industry
54 Argentina Avenue, Lark Ascending
Industry: Education
Entity type: Non-profit, public
Product: Secondary, tertiary education
Specialties: Astronomical sciences, telecommunications engineering, electrical sciences
Enrollment: 44,810
Colors: Governor Bay Blue, White
Revenue: 4,929,000μ/AU
Illuminatian University of Science and Industry (IUSI) is a public institution of tertiary education located in Maiden Voyage. UAI offers secondary and tertiary degrees focusing heavily in the natural sciences, scientific theory, and the engineering disciplines.
While the university is best known for its strength in the scientific disciplines, students in all programs receive a comprehensive education in the humanities and liberal arts to complement their chosen areas of focus. The Illuminatian University of Science and Industry is popular among secondary students in north central Illuminatia in the vicinity of the Anglo-Russo-Hungarian Megalopolitan Complex. IUSI tertiary graduates commonly become leading scientists, theorists, experimenters, and laboratory principals. The university's students, as is the case with students attending all public education institutions, enjoy a nearly 100% placement rate upon graduation thanks the Office of Assessment and Placement (OAP)'s government-assisted career matching system.
IUSI's secondary and tertiary enrollment totals 44,810 students. Illuminatian University of Science and Industry receives funding from the Bureau of Education and Enlightenment (BEE) and oversight from the BEE's Office of Curriculum and Programming (OCP). As with most public educational institutions, public funding accounts for nearly all of IUSI's operational resources. The university's annual revenue averages 4,929,000μ annually.
During the first 20 DU of classes each term, new students at IUSI are informally encouraged by upperclasspersons to partake in an initiation ritual that involves large groups of students gathering and humming an agreed-upon single tone for a period of up to 1 TU, purportedly in efforts to utilize a resonant frequency to attempt the shattering of a pane of exterior glass at the entrance of the university's central building. Those questioning the ritual are told that different frequencies are chosen for the collective vocalization each time a group is gathered for experimental purposes, as the resonant frequency of the glass pane is not known. Often persons of similar voice type will be gathered for these vocal experiments—for instance, a group of sopranos might be gathered so that they can perform a very high note that a group of baritones would be unable to vocalize. Never have any students been successful at destroying the pane of glass using this method.