I'm not personally aware of any SE-created academic institutions in lore. Some might exist outside of the guilds, but I imagine the guilds are the primary means of education using a apprenticeship system. I would suspect the Garleans would be more likely to use a university system, but I don't know of any support in lore for that, either.
In terms of PC-created things, yep, there's the Academy linked earlier, and AFAIK, that's it so far. (I've considered starting a "mage's guild" FC, but it'd be more "Freemasons and Thelema" than "Oxford and Harvard" conceptually. )
I'm sure a lot of people are playing learned individuals. L'yhta's a voracious reader who was given a classical education by a group of old spellcasters, for instance, and she likes to think of herself as quite learned.
In terms of PC-created things, yep, there's the Academy linked earlier, and AFAIK, that's it so far. (I've considered starting a "mage's guild" FC, but it'd be more "Freemasons and Thelema" than "Oxford and Harvard" conceptually. )
I'm sure a lot of people are playing learned individuals. L'yhta's a voracious reader who was given a classical education by a group of old spellcasters, for instance, and she likes to think of herself as quite learned.
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