Vault-Tec University

Vault-Tec University, often abbreviated as VTU, is a location in the Forest region of Appalachia in 2102.

Background
Vault-Tec Corporation purchased Morgantown's local college in 2031 and renamed it to Vault-Tec University. With Vault-Tec's support and the increase in public interest in the company with the advent of the vault program, the university helped to revitalize Morgantown's economy.

Vault-Tec used VTU to train vault staff and overseers. Graduate students seeking to be certified as overseers were obligated to develop thesis papers and then test them as mock-overseers in VTU's Simulation Vault, a complete model vault built beneath the university; certification required completing a four-week stay within the vault and producing viable results from the experiment. VTU students voluntarily served as test-subject "vault dwellers".

Approximately one week before the Great War in 2077, a potential overseer and a group of students were sealed in the vault to test Project Lembas, a new food paste formulation designed to be much more nutritious and filling so that less would need to be produced to feed a vault's population. When the bombs fell, the vault's inhabitants experienced some tremors and equipment malfunctions, but assumed it was part of the test. Not long after, however, a student suffered a fatal heart attack, which the overseer confirmed to be the result of rapid arterial plaque build-up caused by the food paste. The revelation came too late: since the students could no longer eat the food paste, that meant they had to survive on normal rations until the vault's time-locked door unsealed, but unknown to the overseer the food paste had been unpopular from the start and the students had already consumed most of the rations in secret.

Though it mean giving up on certification, the overseer decided to contact his advisors outside the vault and have them open it up early to end the experiment. Unfortunately, no one responded. The desperate students came to believe that the overseer was lying to them and violently revolted. The overseer's last terminal entry notes that he had barricaded himself in his bedroom but was unsure that the door would hold until the vault door unlocked in two weeks. From the number of skeletons found in the overseer's office, it appears that the students got past the door and killed the overseer, but ultimately died of starvation before the vault door finally opened.

Layout
The interior of the main building of Vault-Tec University has become significantly dilapidated. Ceilings and walls have collapsed or been knocked open, and the ground floor rooms are infested by some feral ghouls.

Deeper inside lies the entrance to the VTU Simulation Vault. The entrance room is the office used by the Simulation Vault's mock-overseer, which contains several skeletons, a desk terminal holding records of the vault's last, failed experiment, and a wall terminal that unlocks the door into the vault proper. Docile Mister Handys, used to clean and maintain the facility, can be found in the rooms and passages.

Appearances
Vault-Tec University appears only in Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes
Vault-Tec University's appearance and location is a real life location named West Virginia University, an institution of higher learning within the state of West Virginia.

Universidad de Virginia Occidental Университет «Волт-Тек» Університет Волт-Тек