Federal Centers

Federal Centers are a type of tertiary education institution in the Terran Republic. They exist parallel to regular universities. Unlike universities, they are directly managed by a Federal ministry without autonomy. Their goal is to ensure the forming of professionals in critical areas. They are highly selectiveand accessed at the post-graduate level. All students enter in the main course, but the majority are forced into side courses by the second year. These are more specialised and less prestigious than the main course. Both main and side courses last seven years. There have been a varying number of types of Federal Centers, with the current ones being:
*Federal Administrative Centers, education of future technocrats, statesmen, diplomats and various other administrative workers
*Federal Military Centers, education of military staff and officers
*Federal Polytechnic Centers, education of general-purpose engineers
*Federal Medical Centers, education of doctors and surgeons, simultaneously the larger medical facility than a hospital