According to the university, "...[i]ts islands have been carefully constructed to provide teachers, students, researchers, and visitors a variety of learning environments for use in and out of the classroom." I rather like these for their monumental architecture. The tower and the buildings around it are undoubtedly based on buildings from real life, even though the SL version is mostly an empty shell. The lecture theatre pyramid not so much (though I do like the security room towards the top, which features monitors showing various areas).
Elsewhere there is a training and simulation centre, and other buildings that probably have a function but have been underdeveloped. Not far away, Barnfield Academy features an observatory and seems well laid out, and to the west lies the University of Delaware. This is what i call the "University Archipelago" and other learning institutions will be found in a chain of sims not quite adjacent to each other. I find what the tertiary institutions do in SL are often interesting.
