Time Lord Academy The Time Lord Academy , also known as the Time Academy ( WC : " Shada " ) or the Academy of Time , ( PROSE : " Heart of TARDIS " ) was a school most young Time Lord s attended to further their educations . It was located on the mountains of Gallifrey . Location and Architecture . The Academy was a self - contained city annexed to the Capitol . It covered twenty - eight miles of Gallifrey ' s surface . The Academy had glass turrets , with covered walkways linking them , the dormitories , lecture hall s , TARDIS bay s and scaphe port s . ( PROSE : " Divided Loyalties " ) History . Origins . " to be added " Expansion . During Romana II ' s presidency , she changed the laws to allow human , Monan , Nekkistani , Yevnon and Sunari students study at the Academy . ( AUDIO : " Insurgency " ) It was during this time that the Academy was damaged by a terrorist attack , ( AUDIO : " Imperiatrix " ) and then the Gallifreyan Civil War . ( AUDIO : " Fractures " , " Warfare " ) Curriculum . Admission . According to the Tenth Doctor , children " were taken from their families at the age of eight " to begin their instruction . Part of the initiation into the academy involved looking into the Untempered Schism . ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " ) A selection of the applicants was held . ( TV : " Listen " ) At the induction ceremony for the Academy all Time Lords said : Studies . Time Lords spent " centuries " at the Academy . ( COMIC : " Mortal Beloved " ) Subjects . Branches of knowledge taught in the Time Lord education system included botany , ( PROSE : " Wooden Heart " ) thermodynamics , ( TV : " Time and the Rani " ) cybernetics , ( TV : " Destiny of the Daleks " , " The Armageddon Factor " ) cosmic science , ( TV : " Terror of the Autons " ) Veteran and Vintage Vehicles ( TV : " The Pirate Planet " ) and Gallifreyan flutterwing s . ( TV : " The Pirate Planet " ) Sports . The Eleventh Doctor told John Jones that he came in fourth place 900 years earlier in the Time Lord Academy Sprint Championship . ( COMIC : " Space in Dimension Relative and Time " ) Time Lords — or at least the First Doctor — rode Vortisaur s bareback at the Academy . As a result , the Doctor gained a lot of knowledge about Vortisaurs by his eighth incarnation . ( AUDIO : " Storm Warning " ) Graduation . When a Gallifreyan had been granted the rank of Junior Time Lord in the Time Lord Academy , they received their symbiotic nuclei . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book One " ) To graduate they were tested , with a pass rate of 51 % ( such as that achieved by the Doctor ) , up to a " Triple First " grade ( like Romana I ) , and could take the test more than once if necessary , with the result being confidential . ( TV : " The Ribos Operation " ) There was a TARDIS cradle in the Time Lord Academy for students who had formed a symbiotic bond , but hadn ' t left the Academy yet . ( AUDIO : " The Apocalypse Element " ) Chapters and classes . Each of the six Chapter s was represented a college in the Time Lord Academy , ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) including the Prydonian Academy ( PROSE : " " ) and the Academy of the Patrexes . ( PROSE : " Damaged Goods " ) The Doctor ' s class . The Doctor belonged to the Prydonian Chapter . ( TV : " The Deadly Assassin " et al . ) His class at the Academy had 26 members . Three of them prematurely retire d injured and two were dead by the Doctor ' s seventh incarnation . ( PROSE : " Lungbarrow " ) At the Academy , a group of students , called the Deca , named themselves Theta Sigma ( the Doctor ) , Koschei ( the Master ) , Mortimus ( the Monk ) , Ushas ( the Rani ) and Magnus ( the War Chief ) . ( PROSE : " Divided Loyalties " ) Tebediatroculozan attended the Academy at the same time as the Doctor . ( PROSE : " Seven Deadly Sins " )