Imperial University of Malisk II

The Imperial University of Malisk II is the oldest, best, and most prestigious of the EIT's public Universities of the Empire. As a part of this system of schools, the IUM offers a full five years of high-level education to the Empire's best and brightest free of charge. Competition to enter the school is intense, and countless millions from across the Empire vie to pass through the bottleneck of admission. Located in the upper levels of Vyzalinkh-Bogdana's richer districts, the school is as much respected for its architecture and design as it is for the quality of its graduates.

History
The IUM was the first school of twenty to be founded as part of Supreme Commander Siem Mieszko's National Tide program of improvements and reforms to education and infrastructure in the 1700's AD. Upon its completion, IUM had space for only 110,000 students and was the smallest of the Universities of the Empire. Constrained for centuries by Malisk II's vertically sprawling cityscapes, IUM only expanded in the early 2000's. Supreme Commander Agnija Iulijana's Second Tide program included provisions for the purchase of a swathe of commercial and residential skyscrapers in the center of Vyzalinkh-Bogdana's wealthiest areas. Additionally, the Imperial Navy gifted an old naval station in Sius to IUM and paid for its conversion to an experimental FTL propulsion school and laboratory. Since these changes, IUM has remained mostly the same, and is now the fourth largest University of the Empire in terms of physical space.

Research Programs and Academics
IUM specializes in various starship and space travel-related disciplines, with a smaller number of unrelated full five-year programs offered. Listed below are IUM's offered five-year disciplines:
 * FTL engineering
 * Experimental FTL design
 * Specialized hull design and construction
 * Shipyard engineering, design, operation, and construction
 * Underway combat engineering
 * Propulsion computing
 * Starship internal design
 * Propulsion and vessel systems design and integration
 * Advanced FTL modification and integration
 * Orbital architecture
 * Low-gravity design and construction
 * Deep-space and zero-gravity utility design, construction, and integration
 * Orbital traffic and freight system streamlining theory
 * Long-range bulk transport engineering
 * Naval combat design
 * High-stress vessel design, integration, and systems engineering
 * Interstellar trade and travel navigation, law, and design
 * Advanced trade law
 * International-domestic policing
 * Business operation
 * High-level accounting
 * Xenobiological science
 * Interstellar terrorism and political movement
 * Interstellar cultural and economic exchange and osmosis
 * Naval theory
 * Colonization and xeno-ecological engineering
 * Aquatic xenoscience
 * Non-familiar xenoscience
 * Imperial history
 * Interstellar inter-dependent political and diplomatic theory
 * Imperial journalism

The school operates a pair of repurposed Imperial Navy gunboats for experimentation as well as a full FTL propulsion school and lab in orbit. Students who are accepted into IUM can choose from