![]() Sometimes comes combined with a Magical Society. Compare with All-Ghouls School, Superhero School, and Ninja School. Often overlaps with Academy of Adventure and/or Academy of Evil. Often the institution where the story is set won't be the only such in the world, though the others don't do very much.Ī subtrope of Extranormal Institute. ![]() ![]() The students will spend half their time drinking in the local bars and seeking romantic trysts the professors will mix teaching with cutthroat academic politics and magical research. Universities usually only take students who are nominally young adults, though exceptions may be made for a rare genius prodigy who is an adolescent. If the pupils are lucky, they'll also get a good Muggle education in math and science when they aren't learning magic words, spells and potions. The pupils there are children, who leave at sixteen or eighteen. Schools are often boarding schools, with the attendant tropes. ![]() These come in two varieties: actual schools, and universities. And their classrooms would be almost akin to a Wizard Workshop. Expect plenty of Magi Babble on the tests. An exceptional talent may be a prerequisite for entrance, in which case the school is a center for Training the Gift of Magic. There the young sorcerers go to learn various forms of rule-based Functional Magic (after all, there's not much one can learn if the magic is random and uncontrollable), divided into different "subjects" or even schools of magic. Thus was born the Wizarding School, the institute for education in magic. In light of this, some authors decided that the school or university setting was a viable way to educate their magicians. Then, the modern age saw the rise of public schooling and universities almost completely displace apprenticeship as the means of education. In ye olden days, people learned skills by being apprenticed to someone, so it was natural to assume that magicians would learn the ropes in the same manner. ![]()
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