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Schools, universities, academies, and other educational institutions that appear in works of fiction. This can include wholly fictional schools (e.g. Hogwarts from the Harry Potter books) or real schools that are used fictionally (e.g. Cambridge University is James Bonds's alma mater).
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| x Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry |
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Harry Potter |
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry or simply Hogwarts is a Boarding school of magic for witches and wizards between the ages of eleven and seventeen living in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Six of the seven books in the Harry Potter series...
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| x University of Cambridge |
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James Bond |
The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University, or simply Cambridge), located in the City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, is the second oldest university in the English-speaking world and the fourth oldest in Europe. The...
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| x Eton College |
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James Bond |
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent boarding school for boys aged approx. 13 to 19. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor".
It is located in Eton, near...
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| x Fettes College |
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James Bond |
Fettes College is an independent boarding and day school in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is often referred to as a public school in common with the traditional independent schools in the UK.
To perpetuate the memory of his only son William, who had...
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| x Sunnydale High |
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Buffy Summers |
Sunnydale High is a fictional high school in Joss Whedon's TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and associated books and comics. Located in fictionalSunnydale, California, it serves as a main setting for much of early Buffy.
Buffy Summers joins...
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| x University of California, Sunnydale | Riley Finn |
The University of California, Sunnydale is a fictional university in the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and other works set in the same universe).
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| x Rugby School |
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George Arthur |
Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is regarded as one of the UK's leading co-educational boarding schools and is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain.
Rugby School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the will of...
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| x University of Oxford |
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Tom Brown |
The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University, or simply Oxford), located in the UK city of Oxford, is the oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions....
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| x University of Gotham City | Robin | ||
| x Westminster School |
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Robert Ferrars |
The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools,, with the highest Oxbridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college. Located in the precincts of...
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| x Harvard Medical School |
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Stephen Franklin |
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is currently ranked first among American research medical schools by U.S. News and World Report.
Located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill...
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| x Yale University |
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Joshua Lyman |
The Yale Bulldogs are the athletic teams of the Yale University. The school sponsors 35 varsity sports. The school has won two NCAA national championships in women's fencing, four in men's swimming and diving, and twenty one in men's golf.
The...
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| x Northwestern University |
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Temperance Brennan |
Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university located primarily in Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern is a comprehensive research institution consisting of eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools and colleges: the Judd...
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| x Princeton University |
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Sam Seaborn |
Princeton University is a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges.
Princeton University has traditionally...
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| x Duke University School of Law |
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Sam Seaborn |
The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in...
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| x Brown University |
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Amy Gardner |
Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence...
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| x Yale Law School |
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Amy Gardner |
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars and a number of legal research...
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| x Faber College | Eric "Otter" Stratton | ||
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| x Forks High School | Edward Cullen |
Forks High School (also FHS) is a comprehensive Washington public high school on South Spartan Avenue in the city of Forks, Washington, serving grades 9-12 in the Quillayute Valley School District. It is the only high school in the district, and is...
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| x Springfield Elementary School |
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Springfield Elementary School is a fictional school on The Simpsons, attended by Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson and other Springfieldian children.
Springfield Elementary is a grossly underfunded school and suffers from the incompetence and apathy of its...
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| x Camden College |
Camden College is a fictional liberal arts college which appears in the works of Bret Easton Ellis, Jill Eisenstadt, and in Jonathan Lethem's book The Fortress of Solitude. Whereas Ellis' Camden College is located in New Hampshire, Lethem's Camden...
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| x James K. Polk Middle School |
James K. Polk Middle School is a fictional school seen on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. It is located in California. The exterior of the school is filmed at La Mesa Junior High in Santa Clarita, California. The team is the Wolves and...
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| x Unseen University |
Unseen University (UU) is a school of wizardry in Terry Pratchett's fictional Discworld city of Ankh-Morpork, staffed by a faculty composed of mostly indolent and inept old wizards. The university's name is a pun on the real-world Invisible College....
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| x Miskatonic University |
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Miskatonic University is a fictional university located in the equally fictitious Arkham, set in the real-world Essex County, Massachusetts. After first appearing in the H. P. Lovecraft 1922 serial "Herbert West—Reanimator", the school appeared in...
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| x Starfleet Academy |
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James T. Kirk |
In the fictional universe of Star Trek, Starfleet Academy is where the future members of Starfleet are trained. It was created in the year 2161, when the United Federation of Planets was founded. The Academy's motto is "Ex astris, scientia" - "From...
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| x Malory Towers |
Malory Towers is a fictional Cornish seaside boarding school which features in a series of six novels by British children's author Enid Blyton. In 2009 six more books were added to the series by author Pamela Cox, who has also made additions to Enid...
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| x Bash Street School |
Bash Street School is a fictional school featured in the long-running UK comic strip The Bash Street Kids in The Beano. It has ninety two students, as well as several members of staff, including:
The school badge is, for some reason, a red-and-black...
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| x St Trinian's School |
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St Trinian's is a fictional girls' boarding school, the creation of English cartoonist Ronald Searle, that later became the subject of a popular series of comedy films.
The school is the antithesis of the Enid Blyton/Angela Brazil-type posh girls'...
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| x Coal Hill School |
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Coal Hill School is a fictional school in the television series Doctor Who. It is a comprehensive school located in the Shoreditch area of London.
The Coal Hill School is the setting of much of the very first episode of the series, "An Unearthly...
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| x Chalet School |
The Chalet School is a fictional girls' boarding school, the setting of around sixty school story novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970. The school was initially located in Austria, moved to Guernsey in 1939,...
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| x St. Cedd's College, Cambridge |
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St. Cedd's College is a fictional college, created by Douglas Adams, of Cambridge University. It appears in the Doctor Who serial Shada, and in the novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
It is the home of Professor Chronotis, a retired time...
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| x University of Okoboji |
The University of Okoboji is a fictitious university in the state of Iowa in the United States.
The university was the creation of three brothers (The Three Sons) in the early 1970s, who printed t-shirts with an "official" school crest. The word ...
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| x Greyfriars School |
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Greyfriars School is a fictional English school used as a setting in the long running series of stories by the writer Charles Hamilton using the pen-name Frank Richards. Although the stories are focused on the Remove, whose most famous pupil was...
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| x USND at Hoople |
The University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople is the fictional university that is the home institution of "Professor" Peter Schickele, who is renowned as the greatest expert on the life and works of the (similarly renowned) fictional composer P...
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| x Academy of Law |
The Academy of Law is a fictional place of learning appearing in the Judge Dredd series that appears in the British comic 2000 AD.
The Academy of Law is where the Judges of Mega-City One are trained. Training a Street Judge takes fifteen long, hard...
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| x Witchright Hall | Amanda Wiccan |
Witchright Hall is a special school for "maladjusted young witches", located in the mortal realm of the television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
Episode 115 of Sabrina, entitled "Witchright Hall", served as a backdoor pilot for a series of the...
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| x University of Edgestow |
The University of Edgestow is a university which appears in the novel That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis. It is a small collegiate institution, dating back to at least the 14th Century. It has four colleges:
Some commentators have suggested that...
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| x Imperial Academy |
In the Star Wars universe, the Imperial Academy was a system of military training programs formed by the Galactic Empire for youth from across the galaxy who wanted to become commissioned officers in the Imperial Military (Army, Navy or Stormtrooper...
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| x Jedi Academy |
The Jedi Academy is a training establishment in the fictional universe of Star Wars.
The Jedi Academy, also known as Praxeum, was first housed in the Great Massassi Temple and had 12 original students, including Kyle Katarn, Brakiss, Corran Horn,...
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| x Magic School |
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Magic School is a fictional location used in The WB television series Charmed.
Magic school is a place where young or novice witches or supernatural beings learn to improve their magical craft and history. There are classes for students in...
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| x Scholomance |
The Scholomance was told to be a legendary school said to have been run by the Devil. It was supposedly located near an unnamed lake in the mountains south of the city of Hermannstadt (called Sibiu in Romanian) in the Transylvania region of Romania....
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| x Shiz University |
Shiz University is a fictional university in Gregory Maguire's revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Shiz also appears in Stephen Schwartz's Wicked, the hit Broadway musical based on the book. In the book, the...
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| x X-Mansion |
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In the fictional Marvel Comics universe, the X-Mansion is the common name for Professor Xavier's mansion. It is the base of operations and training site of the X-Men and the location of a school for mutant teenagers, the Xavier Institute for Higher...
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| x Trebizon |
Trebizon is a fictional girls' boarding school, the setting for fourteen school story novels by Anne Digby, published between 1978 and 1994. Like Enid Blyton's much earlier creation, Malory Towers, Trebizon is located in Cornwall.
The novels follow...
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| x Kingscote School for Girls |
Kingscote School for Girls is a fictional girls' boarding school created by Antonia Forest, the pen name of Patricia Rubinstein, where four of her Marlow family books are set.
It is located in Wade Abbas - a fictional town elevated to city status by...
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| x Linbury Court Preparatory School |
Linbury Court Preparatory School is a fictional preparatory school in the English county of Sussex, the setting of the Jennings books of Anthony Buckeridge. It is near the non-existent village of Linbury and the equally fictitious market town of...
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| x St Custard's |
St Custard's is a fictional boys' prep school in a series of books by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle. It is attended by Nigel Molesworth, the narrator of the books, and is ruled with an iron fist by Headmaster GRIMES (BA, Stoke on Trent), who is...
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| x GURPS Illuminati University |
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GURPS Illuminati University (1995) (ISBN 1-55634-206-3), also called GURPS IOU, is a 128-page softbound campaign setting sourcebook for the GURPS role-playing game. The authors are Elizabeth McCoy and Walter Milliken; the illustrations are by Phil...
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| x Maguire University |
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Maguire University is a fictitious college invented in 1963 by a group of Chicago high school basketball coaches, for the sole purpose of securing tickets to the NCAA Final Four.
The idea was hatched by then-Fenwick High School coach Len Tyrrell at...
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| x Medfield College |
Medfield College is a fictitious university used as the setting for several films by The Walt Disney Company. Among them are the two 'Professor Brainard' movies, The Absent-Minded Professor and Son of Flubber; and the 'Dexter Riley' trilogy: The...
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| x Prometheus Academy |
Prometheus Academy is a fictional high school from the Disney animated television series Hercules (see also). Though set in Ancient Greece (specifically Athens), the Academy shares many traits with modern educational institutions. It is...
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| x Walden College |
Walden College is a fictional educational institution (providing fictional education) in the popular editorial comic strip Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau. Originally, it was a thinly-disguised version of Yale University, where the strip was set when it...
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| x Erinsborough High |
Erinsborough High is a fictional high school serving students aged 12-18 (Year 7-12) in the popular Australian soap opera Neighbours. Many of the show's teenaged characters have attended over the years.
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| x Malvern House Preparatory School |
Malvern House Preparatory School, at Kearsney, Kent, was a preparatory school which specialised in preparing boys for entry to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. The comic writer P. G. Wodehouse attended the school for two years from 1891 and...
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| x Teitan High |
Teitan High is the fictional high school, created by Gosho Aoyama for his mystery manga, Meitantei Conan, also known as Case Closed. Here is where ace detective Shinichi Kudo, (Jimmy Kudo to the American translators) as well as the main character in...
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| x The Devon School |
The Devon School is a fictional school created by author John Knowles in the novels A Separate Peace and Peace Breaks Out. It is loosely based on Knowles' alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy. Like Phillips Exeter during World War II, Devon is a boys...
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| x Massachusetts Academy |
The Massachusetts Academy is a fictional prep school in the Marvel Universe. Created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, it first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #151 (cover date November 1981).
Founded in the 1700s in the Berkshire Mountains of Snow...
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| x Shakespeare High School |
Shakespeare High School is a high school in the British Comedy Series on Disney Channel called As the Bell Rings. In the middle of the school there is a Statue of William Shakespeare and is the only part shown in the TV Series on Disney Channel
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| x Hollyoaks Comprehensive | Darren Osborne |
Hollyoaks High School is the fictional school in Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. It is the local school in Hollyoaks Village where teens attend before going onto Hollyoaks Community College. It take pupils from years 7–11 and also has a sixth form.
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| x Hollyoaks Community College | Zak Ramsey |
This is the fictional University characters in the British soap Hollyoaks attend for higher education after leaving Hollyoaks Comprehensive.
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