Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161003151422/@comment-410526-20161004151451

She might still be on campus. Some of the buildings might be student accommodation and stuff like that. Some universities have huge campuses; given how important and prestigious Beacon is, I wouldn't be surprised if it had really, really big grounds.

This shot's a fair bit closer than the Blake pic, but we can at least tell that some student accommodations are quite far from the tower.



Beacon's campus might also not be contiguous, with non-Academy buildings interspersed between. There's also nothing to say that some districts of Vale aren't also located on the upper cliffs with Beacon.