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* Winding Circle in Tamora Pierce's ''CircleOfMagic'' quartet, published in 1997, the same year as Harry Potter. Also Lightsbridge University, which we haven't actually seen in any of the books (several of the characters are alumni), and which sounds like it follows the trope much more closely than the temple city of Winding Circle.

* Magisterius University in ''TalesOfMu''.

* Magisterious University in TalesOfMu is one of the best in the country, set in a [[DungeonsAndDragons DnD-like]] universe.

* The last few seasons of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' featured a magic school, which, like ''Negima'', was inspired by ''Harry Potter''. Earlier seasons never even hint at its existence and the young witches shown all had to learn how to use their powers without it.

->''Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy, Warty Hogwarts,''\\
''Teach us something please,''\\
''Whether we be old and bald,''\\
''Or young with scabby knees,''\\
''Our heads could do with filling,''\\
''With some interesting stuff,''\\
''For now they're bare, and full of air,''\\
''Dead flies and bits of fluff,''\\
''So teach us things worth knowing,''\\
''Bring back what we've forgot,''\\
''Just do your best, we'll do the rest,''\\
''And learn until our brains all rot.''
-->--'''School song of [[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]]''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''

* The Palace of the Prophets from ''SwordOfTruth'', which was first published in 1994. Bonus points for being built as a spell-form, preventing the Sorceresses, Wizards, and especially the Prophets from aging, allowing them to accrue truly terrifying amounts of knowledge.

* Unseen University in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', which comfortably predates Hogwarts by around fourteen years (and is also very un-Hogwarts-like, being more a parody of a University than of a Public School. The Assassins' Guild School, or the Jesters Guild School, however...)
** Also Bugarup University in the Last Continent.
*** UU is very much a parody of a certain perception of Oxford, Cambridge and similar institutions. It DOES have students, notably the original versions of Rincewind and the Ponder Stibbons group, but the Faculty almost never teach or tutor them and their main career path seems to be to join the Faculty. ''EarlyInstallmentWeirdness'' throws up figures like Igneous Cutwell, but they aren't usual.
*** And now Brazeneck College/University in Pseudopolis, which with the former Dean of UU as the head lends a competetive air to the relationship between it and UU.

* DragonQuestIX has [[CaptainErsatz Swinedimples]] [[Franchise/HarryPotter Academy]]. Amusingly one of the students is a troublemaker named Fred.

-->''Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy, Warty Hogwarts,''
-->''Teach us something please,''
-->''Whether we be old and bald,''
-->''Or young with scabby knees,''
-->''Our heads could do with filling,''
-->''With some interesting stuff,''
-->''For now they're bare, and full of air,''
-->''Dead flies and bits of fluff,''
-->''So teach us things worth knowing,''
-->''Bring back what we've forgot,''
-->''Just do your best, we'll do the rest,''
-->''And learn until our brains all rot.''

** And the prize for a [=PhD=] is ''incredible''!

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* In Medieval Europe, the Spanish cities of Toledo and Salamanca had the strong reputation of harbouring schools for sorcerers.
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* IvyLeague schools like Princeton University not only look like Hogwarts, they are also well known for training all sorts of Financial Wizards and [[MagicFromTechnology sufficiently advanced scientists]].

* There are plenty of these in the world of ''Franchise/DragonAge'', with the twist that they also function as prisons to keep mages carefully supervised and away from the general population. As such the academic politics are even more fierce than normal, with the ever present idea of 'fireballing the guards' proving an attractive idea for many.

-->--'''School song of [[HarryPotter Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]]''', ''HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''

*** UU is very much a parody of a certain perception of Oxford, Cambridge and similar institutions. It DOES have students, notably the original versions of Rincewind and the Ponder Stibbons group, but the Faculty almost never teach or tutor them and their main career path seems to be to join the Faculty. ''EarlyInstallmentWierdness'' throws up figures like Igneous Cutwell, but they aren't usual.

* Oakhurst Academy of the ''Shadow Grail'' series by MercedesLackey and RosemaryEdghill.

* Unseen University in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', which comfortably predates Hogwarts by around fourteen years (and is also very un-Hogwarts-like, being more a parody of a University than of a Public School. The Assassins' Guild School, however...)

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Soul Reapers in training earn how to cast kido spells (among other things) at the Soul Reaper Academy in the Soul Society.

* Bard Games' ''Arcanum'' RPG, "The Lexicon (Atlas of the Lost World of Atlantis)"

** The {{Dragonlance}} setting had the Towers of High Sorcery. One of their functions was to train and test new magic users.

** The ''Literature/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #123 article "The Mystic College" had rules for creating and running a college of magic.

** The Dragon magazine #123 article "The Mystic College" had rules for creating and running a college of magic.