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To be fair, DarkIsNotEvil, and the Academy Of Evil may just be suffering from a bad reputation. In this case it will at worst be teaching the [[strike:Dark]] [[GreyAndGreyMorality Off-Grey]] [[TheDarkArts Arts]] and fomenting [[AmbitionIsEvil ambition]] and [[GuileHero guile]] in the student body. Speaking of which, expect it to have a near [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority Darwnian social scene]] that makes most prisons seem like a SugarBowl. TheLibby won't just badmouth you, she'll have her GirlPosse cut you up and sell you for parts to the MadScientist-in-training.

* The Sith Academies on Korriban and Malachor V in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic I'' and ''II'', respectively. The former encourages backstabbing and killing your fellow students and even teachers to gnaw your way to the top.

This is a school that teaches their students how to be better villains. There will be courses on mayhem, [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord extortion]], use of [[BadPowersBadPeople powers]] for [[GoodPowersBadPeople evil]], money laundering and many other topics. Usually the school will be a strictly LawfulEvil institution that is staffed entirely with {{Sadist Teacher}}s and directed by the Principal / BigBad. Despite this rigid order much of the rules have two big caveats: MightMakesRight, and the teachers won't punish cheating-- rather, they'll punish ''[[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty getting caught]]'' because it's a sign of sloppy work.

* Evil University in ''{{Adventurers}}''.

* The titular institution in ''HollowFields'' is a school for mad scientists, with courses in graverobbing, building machines of destruction, and so forth.

* From ''HarryPotter:'' Durmstrang, where people are taught Dark Arts instead of DADA, according to Draco Malfoy (See ''HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'').

** Not that any important villains come from Durmstrang; the closest we get are Karkaroff, who was a coward and quit the Death Eaters, and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Grindelwald]], who was expelled from Durmstrang and isn't really much eviler than Dumbledore.
*** Grindelwald was literally the wizarding world's counterpart to Hitler. Just because his evil happened outside the timeframe of the series doesn't mean it didn't happen.

* Evil University in ''{{Adventurers}}!''.

* The Institute of Evil, Nether Academy - the setting of ''{{Disgaea}} 3''. It's literally a school in ''hell'', where demons go to learn how to be properly evil. Also doubles as a BizarroWorld, since Honor Students are the ones who never attend class or do their homework, while Delinquents maintain 100% Attention (even though the teachers rarely bother showing up), and give THEMSELVES homework (which they always complete) since the teachers won't. They also pick up litter.

To be fair, DarkIsNotEvil, and the Academy Of Evil may just be suffering from a bad reputation. In this case it will at worst be teaching the [[strike:Dark]] [[GreyAndGreyMorality Off-Grey]] [[TheDarkArts Arts]] and fomenting [[AmbitionIsEvil ambition]] and [[GuileHero guile]] in the student body. Speaking of which, expect it to have a near [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority Darwnian social scene]] that makes most prison's seem like a SugarBowl. TheLibby won't just badmouth you, she'll have her GirlPosse cut you up and sell you for parts to the MadScientist-in-training.

* The ''Series/TeenTitans'' animated series had Brother Blood as headmaster of such a school.

** Not that any important villains come from Durmstrang; the closest we get are Karkaroff, who was a coward and quit the Death Eaters, and Grindelwald, who was expelled from Durmstrang and isn't really much eviler than Dumbledore.

* The ''TeenTitans'' animated series had Brother Blood as headmaster of such a school.

* Xavier's School for Exceptionally Wayward Youth in ''X-Men Noir'' is a reform school... but Professor Xavier taught his students how to be better criminals rather than actually reforming them. He insists this was a ploy to gain their trust so they would gradually open up to him and therapy could begin in earnest.

* In mainstream ''{{X-Men}}'' continuity, Emma Frost used to be headmistress of the Massachusetts Academy -- a front for the Hellfire Club that produced the Hellions, rivals to the then-Xavier Institute student body, the NewMutants.

** In the more recent ''NewMutants'' title, the Hellions were another "house" within the Xavier Institute, but still kind of villainy, and rivals to the New Mutants team.

* The Huntsclan Academy in ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'', where students are taught how to slay dragons and to be overall [[FantasticRacist racist]] [[KnightTemplar Knight Templars]].

* ''Dark Heart High'' uses one as a setting.

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* From ''HarryPotter:'' Durmstrang, where people are taught Dark Arts instead of DADA, according to Draco Malfoy (See HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire.
** The entirety of Hogwarts in Book 7 when it's being run by the Death Eaters- they change the curriculum to be all-evil, all the time.

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If there is a good aligned WizardingSchool, NinjaSchool, or SuperheroSchool, expect them both to be rivals. May overlap with AllGhoulsSchool.

* (Please confirm) Scholomance in ''WorldOfWarcraft.''