The University is the foremost centre of learning in the Four Corners of Civilization, a sprawling institution where students study everything from medicine and mathematics to the arcane arts of sympathy, alchemy, and naming. Located near the town of Imre, the University attracts students from across the known world, though tuition is set individually for each student each term by the Masters - a system that makes Kvothe's perpetual lack of money a recurring source of tension. The University is divided into several disciplines, each overseen by one of the nine Masters: Rhetoric and Logic, Mathematics, Archives, Chemistry, Medicine, the Artificery, Sympathy, Naming, and Linguistics. Beyond the main University lies the Arcanum, the advanced programme for students who show true aptitude. The institution is also home to the Archives - a vast library that Kvothe both reveres and is periodically banned from - and the Fishery, where students craft magical devices called artifices for sale. For Kvothe, the University represents both his greatest ambition and his most persistent source of trouble.