List of fictional magic schools

A magic school is an institution for learning magic, appearing in works of fantasy depicting worlds in which magic exists and in which there is an organized society of magicians or wizards who pass on their knowledge in a systematic way. It may also be a school which is magically protected, or a Faculty of Magic in a university which also teaches other subjects. In a more loose way, also a place where a single wizard teaches an apprentice can count as a magic school.

Magic schools include:

Dungeons and Dragons

Elder Scrolls

Harry Potter series

Legendary

Winx Club universe

  • Alfea College, a magic school/college that teaches magic and its history for fairies featured in Winx Club
  • Beta Academy for Fairies, a rival school of Alfea College that teaches magic for fairies
  • Cloud Tower, a school that teaches dark magic for witches, supposedly an enemy school of Alfea College

Others

  • Alectoria School of Magic, located on Vancouver Island, Canada
  • Rowan Academy, featured in The Hound of Rowan series by Henry H. Neff
  • Burg Magic School, featured in Lunar: Walking School and its remake Magic School Lunar!
  • Balamb Garden, a magic school featured in Final Fantasy VIII. Other "gardens" in this game include Galbadia Garden and Trabia Garden.
  • Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a fictional college in The Magicians by Lev Grossman. Located on the Hudson in upstate New York. It is the only school of magic in North America. There is a reference other scools. One in the UK, two in continental Europe - one of them in Zurich, which is considered very old-fashioned - four in Asia and one in New Zealand.
  • Carthak University, in Tamora Pierce's Tortall books. Her books in the Circle universe also have a school of magic in the Winding Circle community.
  • Greenlaw College, in A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer
  • Groosham Grange, an academy of witchcraft
  • The Lisbon School of Magic, in Sofia Ester's books
  • Magic School, a fictional school of magic which is a location of the Charmed television series
  • Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches from The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy
  • Miss Robichaux's Academy for exceptional young ladies in American Horror Story
  • Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts, on the Floating Island or Roanoke in the books of Unexpected Enlightenment
  • Roke: The School of Magic on Roke Island, the sage school governing the Archipelago in the Earthsea Cycle
  • Veritas, the hidden magical university inside Harvard in The Siren and the Sword and other books of the Magic University series by Cecilia Tan
  • Unseen University in the Discworld books of Terry Pratchett
  • Will O' Wisp Academy in Magical Starsign
  • Witch University, featured in the fourth Halloween Town movie, Return To Halloween Town (2006)
  • Wizard's Hall, in the eponymous novel by Jane Yolen
  • School of magic from The False Princess by Eilis O'Neal
  • Magicians' Guild / University from The Black Magician series by Trudi Canavan
  • The Colleges of Magic, from Warhammer Fantasy
  • The University, from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
  • University of Rhiannon, granting its graduates the degree of "Magister in the field of Magic", in Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson
  • University of Salamanca Chair of Magic / Faculty of Magic in The Charwoman's Shadow by Lord Dunsany
  • Mr. Wickens' School, in The Wall Around the World by Theodore Cogswell
  • College of Magical Arts, located in the city-state of Xylar until closed by a king hostile to magicians, in The Goblin Tower by L. Sprague de Camp
  • Lyceum of Metouro in the same book, granting diplomas in various fields, including magic
  • The House of Learning in Iraz, in de Camp's The Clocks of Iraz. Founded by King Hoscha of Penembei, it is divided into The School of Spirit which deals mainly with magic and the School of Matter which deals with mechanical inventions. The Scool of Spirit is subdived into the Departments of Theoretical Thaumthurgy and Applied Thaumathurgy.
  • The Academy of Othoamae in The Unbeheaded King is the largest and most prestigious academic institution in the Novarian city states. It offers courses on magic along with many other subjects such as poetry and engineeeing. Magic is classed as part of the Faculty of Philosophy and Professors of Magic are located in the prestigious, ivy-covered Philosophy building.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Hughes, WilliM (January 30, 2016). "J.K. Rowling announces four new wizarding schools you'll never get to attend". AV Club. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Wonderbook: Book of Potions
  3. ↑ J. K. Rowling (December 4, 2008). The Tales of Beedle the Bard Children's High Level Group.
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