University of Chorrdo

The University of Chorrdo was a public research university on Mezlagob, in the Unknown Regions. It was the most prestigious university of the natural sciences in the Mezlag sector, and admissions to its undergraduate and graduate programs in physics and engineering were notoriously selective, regularly admitting under five percent of applicants.

Under the reign of the Tetrarchy of Mezlagob, the University served as a buffer to keep the best and brightest minds from the Tetrarchy's vassal worlds out of the best programs, only admitting students with clearly demonstrated loyalty, and almost always from prime worlds. When the Tetrarchy fell and was replaced by the Golden Empire, Rin Sakaros ordered the University to open itself equally to all qualified applicants. When holdovers from the old administration tried to subtly maintain the discriminatory system, the Minister of Education deposed the entire Board of Rectors and forced the academic community to appoint a new one.

Despite these issues, the University maintained its high reputation for scholarship under the Empire's rule, and hosted the Queen's Symposium four times in its first thirty years.