C1: Grey College

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 of 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 its length. It is a mazelike building of classes. libraries, laboratories, closets, and storerooms. Like a grand 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 School of Music's chambers for both instrumental and vocal education, and the School of Sculpture'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- AJchemy, Engineering, Healing, Geography, Economy, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, The atre, 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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C1: Grey College. Grey College is an excellent institution of learning that offers classes and degrees in many fields, including alchemy, astrology and astronomy, architecture and engineering, healing, geography, economics and finance, the fine arts, accounting and mathematics, and history. The largest buildings on campus lie near the Processional; from north to south, these are Timber Hall (where most classrooms are), College Hall (holding faculty offices, the library, and meeting rooms), and the Hall of the Dean (containing classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, and storerooms). The Hall of the Dean is the oldest and largest building, built during the reign of Zagig Yragerne, with a dining hall below ground. Smaller buildings are scattered along the northern curve of University Street. An observatory stands outside the eastern city wall. The Grey College chancellor is Hewler Silverfox [LG hm F3; hp 13; Int 16], a distant relative of a noble Greyhawk family.

Grey College has 400-450 students each term. A basic degree can be earned in two to eight years, depending on the courses. Class sizes vary but are generally small, with 20 students at most. Students are almost exclusively upper or middle class, as tuition starts at roughly 50 gp per year and doubles every year thereafter. About three out of ten students are not from Greyhawk; costs increase for these students by another 50%, Economics, finance, and accounting classes are the largest; these students tend to go into mercantile businesses (often family owned) as managers. Many graduates become teachers, but some later become wizards, explorers, and independent sages.

Grey College is sometimes called Greyhawk College or the University of Greyhawk. Some outsiders cannot initially find it, as they think it is named something else, and a few end up applying to other colleges instead by mistake.

DM's Notes: Adventurers have found this school’s tutors to be a good source of news on many aspects of the Flanaess as well as ancient history — especially useful when researching old ruins before walking into them. Many teachers and students have a low opinion of dirty adventurers but also secretly admire them. The campus is known for political activitism but not necessarily for rational thought; naive students might debate ways to prop up Nyrond or how to run the city government more effectively, but they might suspect the Greyhawk Thieves’ Guild controls the whole Flanaess or that Iuz the Evil is not as bad as people say he is. Rumors picked up on this campus can be so wild as to be worse than useless, though entertaining.