History Main / AcademyOfEvil

* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'': In response to the heroic Claremont Academy of Freedom City, the villain Taurus launched the villainous equivalent: the Shadow Academy. 3rd Edition adds the Elysium Academy in Sunset Hill, in the West Coast setting of Emerald City; publicly, Elysium is a boarding school for the children of Sunset Hill's residents. Privately, it's the West Coast extension of the Shadow Academy [[spoiler:(the residents of Sunset Hill are supervillains, after all).]]

* The Institute of Evil, Nether Academy -- the setting of ''{{VideoGame/Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}''. It's literally a school in ''hell'', where demons go to learn how to be properly evil (By their [[PokeThePoodle generally awkward]] standards). Since ''Disgaea'' demons run on BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad, the students they consider honor students are the ones who never attend class or do their homework, while the delinquents are the ones who maintain 100% attendance (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. Oddly, the so-called "delinquents" are the only ones who ever get to graduate from the academy, since they run off the same standards as any other school in that regard... In fact, [[spoiler:the previously mentioned delinquents are the first ones to ever graduate, which amounts to be KickedUpstairs. You see, the Academy's objective is to make the students remain paying the tuition for all eternity]].

* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, any institution run by ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} is this -- he first came to prominence running schools for henchmen of other supervillains. Later, during ''Comicbook/DarkReign'', he was in charge of ''The Initiative'' for a while. He's so good at what he does that the government sometimes hires him to train their operatives, including a replacement ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
* Xavier's School for Exceptionally Wayward Youth in ''ComicBook/XMenNoir'' is a reform school... but ComicBook/ProfessorX 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 reality, he was developing and studying them to prove his theory that sociopathy is the next stage of human behavioral evolution.
* In mainstream ''Comicbook/XMen'' continuity, ComicBook/EmmaFrost 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 ''ComicBook/NewMutants''. When Emma had her HeelFaceTurn, the Massachusetts Academy became a SuperheroSchool, the front for ''ComicBook/GenerationX''.

* The dark elven city of Menzoberranzan from ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has one, most elaborated on in R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt novels (but also appearing in Elaine Cunningham's Liriel novels and the ''Literature/WarOfTheSpiderQueen'' series). Tier-Breche (usually simply called "The Academy") is divided into three sub-schools, Melee-Magthere (for warriors), Sorcere (for wizards) and Arach-Tinillith (for the clergy of [[GodOfEvil Lolth]]). Considering its two functions are to train the students to lethal efficiency in their particular discipline and firmly induct them into a ReligionOfEvil, it's a very scary place. Since the main hero Drizzt is a warrior, his education mostly takes place in Melee-Magthere -- and it's ripe with backstabbing, KlingonPromotion and things like using children to bait monsters for students to practice on. And yet Drizzt's mentor [DefectorFromDecadence Zaknafaien]] adamantly insists that he goes there, because apparently Sorcere ''is even worse''.

** The Hellfire Academy in ''Comicbook/WolverineAndTheXMen'' is kind of like the Massachusetts Academy only ''completely insane''.

* The Umbrella Management Training Facility in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilZero'' is what it sounds like: an ornate, mansion-like university of sorts owned by [[EvilInc Umbrella]] to train prospective employees, managers and scientists for future employment, as well as instill within its students fanatical loyalty to the company. Said education does indeed involve [[MadScience Umbrella's signature unethical experiments with viruses among others.]] Additionally, its situated in the Arklay Mountains of Raccoon City, not far from Umbrella's main Arklay Laboratory. And yes, there is a hidden lab underneath the facility as well, run by a mad scientist (James Marcus) to boot, and to give you an idea of what kind of madmen this place churned out, series supervillain Albert Wesker got his start here alongside G-Virus creator William Birkin. The school was shut down at some point, and when plans to reopen it were made, they were just as soon scrapped by both the resurrected James Marcus going on a rampage and unleashing the T-Virus in it, and when Birkin set off the facility's self-destruct system, destroying it.

* The Institute of Evil, Nether Academy -- the setting of ''{{VideoGame/Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}''. It's literally a school in ''hell'', where demons go to learn how to be properly evil (By their [[PokeThePoodle generally awkward]] standards). Since ''Disgaea'' demons run on BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad, the students they consider honor students are the ones who never attend class or do their homework, while the delinquents are the ones who maintain 100% attendance (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. Oddly, the so-called "delinquents" are the only ones who ever get to graduate from the academy, since they run off the same standards as any other school in that regard... In fact, [[spoiler:the previously mentioned delinquents are the first ones to ever graduate, which amounts to be KickedUpstairs. You see, the Academy's objective is to make the students remain paying the tuition for all the eternity]].

* The Institute of Evil, Nether Academy -- the setting of ''{{VideoGame/Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}''. It's literally a school in ''hell'', where demons go to learn how to be properly evil (By their [[PokeThePoodle generally awkward]] standards). Also doubles as a BizarroWorld, since honor students are the ones who never attend class or do their homework, while delinquents maintain 100% attendance (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. Oddly, the so-called "delinquents" are the only ones who ever get to graduate from the academy, since they run off the same standards as any other school in that regard... In fact, [[spoiler:the previously mentioned delinquents are the first ones to ever graduate, which amounts to be KickedUpstairs. You see, the Academy's objective is to make the students remain paying the tuition for all the eternity]].

* Bekinsop's Academy for the Daughters of Gentlefolk in ''Blonde Genius'' by Creator/JTEdson.

* Battle School from ''Literature/EndersGame'' is on the very dark side of morally ambiguous. On the one hand, they're training commanders to attack an alien race that once attacked them. On the other hand [[spoiler: they plan the complete genocide of the aliens and consider students killing one another an acceptable part of their training]].
** The eventual sequels cast Battle School in a different light, showing that while it's quite deliberately teaching "evil values" to many of the students, it's doing so for their ''weaknesses'': the institution was founded to deal with far more important and long-term problems than an unfortunate kerfuffle with an alien race, and a number of its students were destined even before their enrollment to become problems. Battle School is actually finishing them to look really good to their sponsors upon graduation... and then ''fail miserably''. (And in the meantime, using them to help finish the other students in other directions.)

* Catherine Jinks's ''Literature/{{Evil Genius|Trilogy}}'' sends its protagonist, the SociopathicHero Cadel, to the Axis Institute, which includes courses like "Poisoning" and "Forgery."

Presumably, such a school is funded by graduates tithing back money to the principal, though he or she may get funding from parents who enroll their children because they [[InTheBlood want their kids]] to [[LegacyCharacter follow their evil jackboot-steps.]] Then again, the school may act as a talent agency / crime ring and hire out students as mercenaries, or use them to commit crimes.

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* Byrgenwerth College in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''. While they started out as a regular college of some type, one day they discovered the hidden Pthumerian Tombs below the city of Yharnam. It was their decision to crack open the "Tomb of the Gods" that inadvertently started the city's descent into madness, and it ''was'' a demented former student that started the blood craze (leading to the Vilebloods). The evil part comes in when it's revealed in The Old Hunters DLC that Byrgenwerth sent Hunters and students to sack a fishing village that was home to a local EldritchAbomination and apparently killed everyone there. Eventually, they split into several factions, the largest of which being the Healing Church. Their decision to keep investigating alternate ways of understanding the Pthumerians' mastery of magic aside from Old Blood (the Fishing Hamlet massacre, research on Insight) brought them into conflict with the Healing Church, and spelled doom for everyone involved. In the modern day, Byrgenwerth is abandoned aside from the dead and the insane. The implication is that most students went their separate ways once the Healing Church started to take off.

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 evil 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 ''[[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught getting caught]]'' because [[DoWrongRight it's a sign of sloppy work]].

* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, any institution run by ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} is this - he first came to prominence running schools for henchmen of other supervillains. Later, during ''Comicbook/DarkReign'', he was in charge of ''The Initiative'' for a while. He's so good at what he does that the government sometimes hires him to train their operatives, including a replacement ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.

* The dark elven city of Menzoberranzan from ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has one, most elaborated on in R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt novels (but also appearing in Elaine Cunningham's Liriel novels and the ''Literature/WarOfTheSpiderQueen'' series). Tier-Breche (usually simply called "The Academy") is divided into three sub-schools, Melee-Magthere (for warriors), Sorcere (for wizards) and Arach-Tinillith (for the clergy of [[GodOfEvil Lolth]]). Considering its two functions are to train the students to lethal efficiency in their particular discipline and firmly induct them into a ReligionOfEvil, it's a very scary place. Since the main hero Drizzt is a warrior, his education mostly takes place in Melee-Magthere - and it's ripe with backstabbing, KlingonPromotion and things like using children to bait monsters for students to practice on. And yet Drizzt's mentor [DefectorFromDecadence Zaknafaien]] adamantly insists that he goes there, because apparently Sorcere ''is even worse''.

** The Death Eaters tried to make Hogwarts this in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', when it's being run by the Death Eaters--they change the curriculum to make the Dark Arts and Muggle "Studies" mandatory, making the curriculum all-evil, all the time. It doesn't work on the students except for [[BlackShirt Slytherin House]].

* Xavier's School for Exceptionally Wayward Youth in ''ComicBook/XMenNoir'' is a reform school... but ComicBook/ProfessorX 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 reality, he was developing and studying them to prove his theory that sociopathy is the next stage of human behavioral evolution.
* In mainstream ''Comicbook/XMen'' continuity, ComicBook/EmmaFrost 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 ''ComicBook/NewMutants''. When Emma had her HeelFaceTurn, the Massachusetts Academy became a SuperheroSchool, the front for ''ComicBook/GenerationX''.
** In ''ComicBook/NewXMenAcademyX'', the Hellions were another "house" within the Xavier Institute, but still kind of villain-y and rivals to the New Mutants team.
** The Hellfire Academy in ''Comicbook/WolverineAndTheXMen'' is kind of like the Massachusetts Academy only ''completely insane''.

* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, any institution run by ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} is this - he first came to prominence running schools for henchmen of other supervillains. Later, during ''Comicbook/DarkReign'', he was in charge of ''The Initiative'' for a while. He's so good at what he does that the government sometimes hires him to train their operatives, including a replacement ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
* St. Hadrian's Finishing School for Girls in ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman Incorporated]]'', which is run by the international TerroristsWithoutACause group Leviathan and trains its pupils to become spies, assassins and depraved seducers. After Batman and an undercover Stephanie Brown took it out, it was restarted by Spyral, and trained its pupils to become spies, assassins, and depraved seducers for ''good causes'', under the new headmistress [[spoiler: Kathy Kane (the Silver Age Batwoman, recently retconned back into continuity)]].

* In ''Black Hood Comics'' #9, criminal mastermind Markov started a school for (adult) criminals, teaching them how to fight barehanded, how to evade police capture, etc. He did so out of a simple desire to improve the local criminal landscape, having found the crooks he'd met up to that point clumsy and stupid.
* In ''ComicBook/DeadlyClass'' students are the sons and daughters of fine important figures such as KGB/CIA/FBI agents, GangBangers, Neo Nazis, African Warlords, and South American Drug Cartels just to name a few.

* The eponymous school in the 1960 film ''School for Scoundrels'' teaches how to be a nasty manipulative person, but without ever breaking any rules, because rule-breakers risk being caught. [[BasedOnAnAdviceBook Based on a series of spoof self-help books]].

* The Higher Institute of Villainous Education, or ''[[Literature/HIVESeries H.I.V.E.]]''

* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has Mesaana opening a lot of those during [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas The age of legends]], and its pupils were ''not'' dedicated to idle cackling.
* Played with in {{Literature/Discworld}} with the [[SpySchool Assassins' Guild School]], which while it does still teach the art of assassination, is also considered a prestigious academy for gentlemen and, as of recently, ladies. Another Academy of Evil is discussed in ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'', though it may not actually exist:
-->Of course, all [[EvilVizier Grand Viziers]] talk like that all the time. There's probably a school somewhere.
* Literature/{{Dracula}} is mentioned to have studied at the "Scholomance" -- presumably the same one from the Myths & Religion section below. Freda Warrington's [[Literature/DraculaTheUndead1997 unofficial sequel]] has the now-abandoned Scholomance play a big role in the plot.
* Bekinsop's Academy for the Daughters of Gentlefolk in ''Blonde Genius'' by Creator/JTEdson.
* Battle School from ''Literature/EndersGame'' is on the very dark side of morally ambiguous. On the one hand, they're training commanders to attack an alien race that once attacked them. On the other hand [[spoiler: they plan the complete genocide of the aliens and consider students killing one another an acceptable part of their training]].
** The eventual sequels cast Battle School in a different light, showing that while it's quite deliberately teaching "evil values" to many of the students, it's doing so for their ''weaknesses'': the institution was founded to deal with far more important and long-term problems than an unfortunate kerfluffle with an alien race, and a number of its students were destined even before their enrollment to become problems. Battle School is actually finishing them to look really good to their sponsors upon graduation... and then ''fail miserably''. (And in the meantime, using them to help finish the other students in other directions.)
* The dark elven city of Menzoberranzan from ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has one, most elaborated on in R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt novels (but also appearing in Elaine Cunningham's Liriel novels and the ''Literature/WarOfTheSpiderQueen'' series). Tier-Breche (usually simply called "The Academy") is divided into three sub-schools, Melee-Magthere (for warriors), Sorcere (for wizards) and Arach-Tinillith (for the clergy of [[GodOfEvil Lolth]]). Considering its two functions are to train the students to lethal efficiency in their particular discipline and firmly induct them into a ReligionOfEvil, it's a very scary place. Since the main hero Drizzt is a warrior, his education mostly takes place in Melee-Magthere - and it's ripe with backstabbing, KlingonPromotion and things like using children to bait monsters for students to practice on. And yet Drizzt's mentor [DefectorFromDecadence Zaknafaien]] adamantly insists that he goes there, because apparently Sorcere ''is even worse''.
* In ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'', it's mentioned that {{Hell}} has a Training College for young devils, run by a demon named Slubgob. They study such courses as sexual temptation ("a subject of considerable tedium," complains Screwtape, who is no {{Horny Devil|s}}) and [[AWolfInSheepsClothing disguising oneself as an Angel of Light]].
* Lawless Academy in ''Literature/{{Lawless}}'' is a school for criminals.
* In ''Literature/{{Twig}}'', an academic organization known simply as "The Academy" is the scientific force behind an empire spanning a full third of the known world, with a specialization in [[BioPunk biological modification]]. Weapons projects are first in line for funding, students are subtly encouraged to backstab and sabotage each other, and the Academy has anyone who they suspect knows Academy science when they shouldn't assassinated.
* The House of Reform in ''Literature/TheHauntingOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'', rivals to the eponymous ExtranormalInstitute, and described as "a whole school of Wrong 'Uns. Lobelia Draycott probably gave out end of term prizes for the most inventive crimes."

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' featured a school where students were implanted with a mind control chip. One of the classes featured assassination as a viable business practice for getting rid of the competition.
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': A Season 5 episode reveals that HYDRA operated at least one secret facility that served as a boarding school for children born into the organization. It's shown that [[WellIntentionedExtremist Brigadier General Hale]], [[EvilutionaryBiologist Wolfgang Von Strucker]], and [[TheMole Jasper Sitwell]] were all students there in the same class.

* The Institute of Evil, Nether Academy - the setting of ''{{VideoGame/Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}''. It's literally a school in ''hell'', where demons go to learn how to be properly evil (By their [[PokeThePoodle generally awkward]] standards). Also doubles as a BizarroWorld, since honor students are the ones who never attend class or do their homework, while delinquents maintain 100% attendance (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. Oddly, the so-called "delinquents" are the only ones who ever get to graduate from the academy, since they run off the same standards as any other school in that regard... In fact, [[spoiler:the previously mentioned delinquents are the first ones to ever graduate, which amounts to be KickedUpstairs. You see, the Academy's objective is to make the students remain paying the tuition for all the eternity]].
* Scholomance in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft.'' It's a school for necromancy that trains aspiring cultists and minions of the Scourage.

* Byrgenwerth College in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''. While they started out as a regular college of some type, one day they discovered the hidden Pthumerian Tombs below the city of Yharnam. It was their decision to crack open the "Tomb of the Gods" that inadvertently started the city's descent into madness, and it ''was'' a demented former student that started the blood craze (Leading to the Vilebloods). The evil part comes in when it's revealed in The Old Hunters DLC that Byrgenwerth sent Hunters and students to sack a fishing village that was home to a local EldritchAbomination and apparently killed everyone there. Eventually, they split into several factions, the largest of which being the Healing Church. Their decision to keep investigating alternate ways of understanding the Pthumerians' mastery of magic aside from Old Blood (the Fishing Hamlet massacre, research on Insight) brought them into conflict with the Healing Church, and spelled doom for everyone involved. In the modern day, Byrgenwerth is abandoned aside from the dead and the insane. The implication is that most students went their separate ways once the Healing Church started to take off.
** The School of Mensis is a heretical offshoot of the Healing Church, which as previously mentioned splintered from Byrgenwerth. It is, bar none, the most malevolent faction of the game, having no issue with kidnapping people to serve as fodder for their rituals. Their land has been twisted into an expanse of mountains bearing countless screaming faces, rising above a sea of fog. Their headquarters serve as a prison for an EldritchAbomination and an incubator for another.
* VideoGame/ChoiceOfGames offers ''Grand Academy for Future Villains'' where you're attending the school that teachers evil masterminds and would-be despots, and is aware of the genres they're being to sent to.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation frequently has to deal with [=SCP=]s created by Alexylva University, a mind control-obsessed organization from an AlternateUniverse where the Roman empire lasted to the modern age.
* In the world of ''Literature/NocteYin'', there are Evil Academy and HeroAcademy, as well as their rival schools.
* Silas University in ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'' is an evil university, as described in its student handbook. Which at DoorStopper length (700 pages), [[ActionSurvivor Laura Hollis]] failed to read.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', there was the H.I.V.E. ([[Literature/HIVESeries not this one]]), which originally trained super-villains to work as mercenaries, its star pupils being Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth, used by Slade in a very early episode. Later, in the third season, the school played a much bigger part of the plot, with Brother Blood as the BigBad of the storyline and headmaster of the school. After Blood's defeat, the school was defunct, but Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth formed a team called the H.I.V.E. Five (which [[ArtifactTitle eventually got six members]]) that eventually joined the Brain's Brotherhood of Evil.
* ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' feature a humorous advertisement for a school for villains, showing a teacher pointing at the black board and reading, "Ah...ha...ha...ha...ha..."
* {{Subverted|Trope}} with Cloud Tower, a boarding school for witches in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub''. Despite its dark atmosphere, the school has nothing more than your standard academic rivalry with the protagonists' Alfea Academy. Most witches from the institution, such as Headmistress Griffin, are [[DarkIsNotEvil mischievous at best]] and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold mild jerks at worst]]. In fact, recurring antagonists the Trix get ''expelled'' from the school early on precisely because of their evil behavior.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz intended to open one in "The Swiss Family Phineas". He tried to drive laundromats bankrupt so he could turn them into school buildings.

* The ''WesternAnimation/CoolMcCool'' episode "College Of Crooks," consisting of Cool's regular roster of villains (The Owl, the Rattler, Hurricane Harry, Jack-In-The-Box, Dr. Madcap and Greta Ghoul).
* Hexley Hall in ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' is shown to have rather naughty students that pick on any non-wizards.
* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'' has V.I.L.E. Academy, where said villainous organization trains new generations of super criminals. The title character was a student there, having been raised there from infancy, but escaped and went rogue after [[HeelRealization realizing]] they were the bad guys.
* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E15HomieTheClown Homie the Clown]]", where TheMafia takes over Krusty's clown college and the new instructors encourage students to commit crimes.
--> '''Mafia Goon:''' Kids these days have a lot of money, so after you perform, you might consider robbing 'em!

** Durmstrang, a {{downplayed|Trope}} example, where people are taught the Dark Arts instead of Defense Against the Dark Arts, has a slight reputation of being this. Grindelwald, Dumbledore's old arch-nemesis, comes from here. We do meet Durmstrang alumni who are definitely not evil and take a hard stand against evil (Viktor Krum comes to mind right away) and this isn't shown as being very odd. And [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Durmstrang had to draw the line and expel Gellert Grindelwald]], where a school that really played this trope straight would probably have nurtured him.

* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDoctorAphra'': At the end of the second arc, Aphra ultimately sells the [[MacGuffin Rur crystal]] to the "Shadow University". Though they are not shown doing anything particularly evil, the fact that they were included on the attendance list to Aphra's AuctionOfEvil and the fact that the morally grey Aphra says she admires them imply that they are this. They also threaten to expose Aphra's cheating and get her doctorate revoked again if she does not sell the Rur crystal to them.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} with Cloud Tower, a boarding school for witches in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub''. Despite its dark atmosphere, the school has nothing more than your standard academic rivalry with the protagonists' Alfea Academy. Most other witches from the institution, such as Headmistress Griffin, are [[DarkIsNotEvil mischievous at best]] and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold mild jerks at worst]]. In fact, recurring antagonists the Trix get ''expelled'' from the school early on precisely because of their evil behavior.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} with Cloud Tower School for Witches in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub''. While the Trix who attend Cloud Tower are evil antagonists throughout the series, the school itself has nothing more than your standard academic rival with the protagonists' Alfea Academy. Most other witches from the institution, such as Miss Griffin, are [[DarkIsNotEvil mischievous at best]] and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold mild jerks at worst]].

* The Cloudtower school for witches opposing Alfea Academy in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' initially seems like one, but it's {{subverted|Trope}} as [[DarkIsNotEvil most witches such as Miss Griffin are mostly good-hearted]], even if they are mischievous or jerks sometimes..

* The dark elven city of Menzoberranzan from ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has one, most elaborated on in R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt novels (but also appearing in Elaine Cunningham's Liriel novels and the ''Literature/WarOfTheSpiderQueen'' series). Tier-Breche (usually simply called "The Academy") is divided into three sub-schools, Melee-Magthere (for warriors), Sorcere (for wizards) and Arach-Tinillith (for the clergy of [[GodOfEvil Lolth]]). Considering its two functions are to train the students to lethal efficiency in their particular discipline and firmly induct them into a ReligionOfEvil, it's a very scary place. Since the main hero Drizzt is a warrior, his education mostly takes place in Melee-Magthere - and it's ripe with backstabbing, KlingonPromotion and things like using children to bait monsters for students to practice on. And yet Drizzt's mentor Zaknafaien adamantly insists that he goes there, because apparently Sorcere ''is even worse''.

[[caption-width-right:340:"And tomorrow, we'll be learning about "DEF": Destruction, Extortion and [[FrenchJerk French]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Accents]]."]]

[[caption-width-right:340:"And tomorrow, we'll be learning about "DEF": Destruction, Extortion and [[FrenchJerk French]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Accents]]."

* Xavier's School for Exceptionally Wayward Youth in ''ComicBook/XMenNoir'' 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 reality, he was developing and studying them to prove his theory that sociopathy is the next stage of human behavioral evolution.
* In mainstream ''Comicbook/XMen'' 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 ''ComicBook/NewMutants''. When Emma had her HeelFaceTurn, the Massachusetts Academy became a SuperheroSchool, the front for ''ComicBook/GenerationX''.
** In a later ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' title, the Hellions were another "house" within the Xavier Institute, but still kind of villain-y and rivals to the New Mutants team.

* Royal Pain plans to turn ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' into one of these, turning the students, faculty and alumni into babies and then raising them anew as supervillains.

** Durmstrang, a {{downplayed}} example, where people are taught the Dark Arts instead of Defense Against the Dark Arts, has a slight reputation of being this. Grindelwald, Dumbledore's old arch-nemesis, comes from here. We do meet Durmstrang alumni who are definitely not evil and take a hard stand against evil (Viktor Krum comes to mind right away) and this isn't shown as being very odd. And [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Durmstrang had to draw the line and expel Gellert Grindelwald]], where a school that really played this trope straight would probably have nurtured him.
** The Death Eaters tried to make Hogwarts this in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', when it's being run by the Death Eaters--they change the curriculum to make the Dark Arts and Muggle "Studies" mandatory, making the curriculum all-evil, all the time. It doesn't work on the students except for [[BlackShirt House Slytherin]].

* There is a "[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Academy Shadow Academy]]" in the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', as a Dark Side counterpart to the Jedi Academy.

* Battle School from ''Literature/EndersGame'' is on the very dark side of morally ambiguous. On the one hand, they're training commanders to attack an alien race that once attacked them. On the other hand [[spoiler: they plan the complete genocide of the aliens and consider students killing one another an acceptable part of their training.]]

* In ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'', it's mentioned that {{Hell}} has a Training College for young devils, run by a demon named Slubgob. They study such courses as sexual temptation ("a subject of considerable tedium," complains Screwtape, who is no HornyDevil) and [[AWolfInSheepsClothing disguising oneself as an Angel of Light]].

* [[Series/TheThundermans Max Thunderman]] wants to go to one of these, but for now he's keeping up TheMasquerade in a suburban public school. And since that's the whole premise of the show...

* The Institute of Evil, Nether Academy - the setting of ''{{VideoGame/Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}''. It's literally a school in ''hell'', where demons go to learn how to be properly evil (By their [[PokeThePoodle generally awkward]] standards). Also doubles as a BizarroWorld, since honor students are the ones who never attend class or do their homework, while delinquents maintain 100% attendance (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. Oddly, the so-called "delinquents" are the only ones who ever get to graduate from the academy, since they run off the same standards as any other school in that regard... In fact, [[spoiler:the previously mentioned delinquents are the first ones to ever graduate, which amounts to be KickedUpstairs. You see, the Academy's objective is to make the students remain paying the tuition for all the eternity.]]

* The Sith Academies on Korriban and Malachor V in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' and ''[[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords The Sith Lords]]'', respectively. The former encourages backstabbing and killing your fellow students and even teachers to gnaw your way to the top.
** The Korriban academy has been rebuilt and reestablished by the time of ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''. It's not notably less evil than it used to be, as Sith Warrior and Inquisitor player characters can attest. For starters, it's possible (even encouraged) for each of them to be the SoleSurvivor of their training cadre.

* ChoiceOfGames offers ''Grand Academy for Future Villains'' where you're attending the school that teachers evil masterminds and would-be despots, and is aware of the genres they're being to sent to.

* The Cloudtower school for witches opposing Alfea Academy in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' initially seems like one, but it's {{subverted}} as [[DarkIsNotEvil most witches such as Miss Griffin are mostly good-hearted]], even if they are mischievous or jerks sometimes..

* [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz]] intended to open one in "The Swiss Family Phineas". He tried to drive laundromats bankrupt so he could turn them into school buildings.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' had the titular character shutting down the M.A.D. Acedemy, which was one of these.
** Then, in [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015 the 2015 version]], we have Evil U, which is also one of these.

* Silas University in ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'' is an evil university, as described in its student handbook. Which at DoorStopper length (700 pages), [[ActionSurvivor Laura Hollis]] failed to read.