Winding Circle in Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic quartet, published in 1997, the same year as Harry Potter. Also Lightsbridge University, which we haven't actually seen in any of the books (several of the characters are alumni), and which sounds like it follows the trope much more closely than the temple city of Winding Circle.

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In Absit Omen, Hogwarts is the main focus, but due to the Tetrawizard Tournament, students from Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, and Salem are currently present. Some adult characters graduated from other wizarding schools from around the world, such as Beit Gaddol in Jerusalem and Mahoutokoro in Japan. I created an online Magical Academy, a central hub for all my latest magical teaching – a lively, positive community of magically-minded people all supporting, encouraging and even collaborating with each other, all over the world. 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. The Glitterwings Academy series is about the adventures of a young fairy at the titular fairy school, which is situated in an oak tree.Magic University: Veritas is the titular secret magic university, hidden inside of Harvard. Aside from teaching magic, it's very similar to a normal American university. The Royal Sorcery Academy from Howl's Moving Castle is a school for Court Mages. They're made to sign a contract to be loyal to the king and deserters get depowered. Most of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! takes place in an unnamed school that trains all magic users in the kingdom, as they are considered to be an incredibly valuable asset. Due to the fact that the ability to use magic is almost exclusively found among nobility and royalty, it also doubles as a Royal School.

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Subverted with Naming, where the University is too domesticated and safe for most Namers to find all the names they might at the ends of civilization. "Chasing the Wind" has morphed into a term of derision speaking of futility, but it originally referred to someone going off on adventures to seek the ever-changing Name of the Wind. Exalted actually has a lot of these. Lookshy has an academy for those wanting to study Magitek, the Sidereals have Department 137 of the Forbidding Manse of Ivy, and the Underworld has the Raiton Academy for the tutelage of necromancy.

There's a College of Magic in Salamander, published in 2001, where most of the story takes place. It's portrayed as a research center as much as a school, though.