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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CrazyMage" data-source="post: 761634" data-attributes="member: 565">Couple of quick things before I go to bed:I think the university should be rather modest in size, but that gives this possibility--perhaps it is a fairly new school, and there is a faction/wealthy few that wants to promote it in order to gain fame and power for the city.  Others see it as a major waste of public funds (as much as public funds are used to support it) and actively oppose it.  Put a few retired wizards on staff, and the town has to listen to the needs of the university.If you do go with a larger university, how does the city react to all the students and their misbehavior, a question that comes up where I live now.  One additional "plus" to a larger school--more taverns, because students = bar patrons!  What D&D city doesn't need more taverns?As for colleges in said university:-If there's any sort of wealthy elite, there's an excuse for a theater/opera house/bard college to provide "sophisticated" entertainment.-Theology, medicine and law were the major emphases in the medieval university.  In a world with clerics, perhaps the first two are combined or at least have major overlap.  Clerics teaching classes might lead to some feeling resentful at the church for gettin too involved in the university and "tainting" the students.  Law would be useful for the bureaucracy of Mor's End, and (unless this is a city-state) the larger governmental structures.-Science (alchemy/chemistry, astronomy, physics)-Humanities (history, language, literature)--Other?  One man departments of crazy old scholars?Just found this at <a href="http://www.robertpascoe.net/UniHist/lectures/THEME03.html" target="_blank">http://www.robertpascoe.net/UniHist/lectures/THEME03.html</a>The medieval universities mostly comprised four faculties: arts, theology, law, and medicine. The Arts Faculty was the most important because it provided the civil servants who made it possible to improve and expand civil administrations right across Europe, especially as the princes and other secular leaders developed their governmental systems. The emergence of better styles of government can be attributed to this university training. What the four faculties had in common was there did not exist organised guilds in their areas where knowledge and skills could be passed down from masters to apprentices. This also explains why universities did not venture into areas such as shipbuilding, architecture, or veterinary science, however important these areas were to the economic functioning of the medieval world, because training in these fields was already controlled by the guilds. Not having luck finding any sizes of schools/faculty as a historical example for our planning.  I didn't think my little question would stir up so much discussion<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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