Jedi academy

Jedi academies were established to train Force-sensitive beings accepted into the Jedi Order in the ways of the Force.

Overseen by the Council of First Knowledge, each academy was governed by an advisory Council appointed by their superiors on Coruscant. Mainstreaming the majority of teachings at the Temple, certain practices were permitted to vary from world to world. However, at all sanctioned academies, a group of Jedi Masters would instruct Initiates to the Order in the ways of the Force. The size of the school varied from world to world; some as small as to consist of a single clan of younglings, and as the large as the main academy housed within the Jedi Temple of Coruscant. Many academies had been established during the Old Sith Wars and were located in the Galactic Rim. Some were located on or near Force-wellsprings or places significant to the Order like crystal caves or nexuses of dark side energies that needed constant monitoring.

In addition to the traditional academies established by the Order, the Exploration Corps maintained several spacefaring mobile academies such as the Chu'unthor so that roaming the galaxy and exploring new worlds could be achieved while still teaching traditional doctrine.

By the fall of the Galactic Republic in 19 BBY, many of the ancient academies had been shut down for decades, with the Council of First Knowledge preferring the central teachings of the Coruscant Temple. After the dissolution of the Order during the Great Jedi Purge, all orthodox Temples and academies were routed and burned in order to prevent any more Jedi from learning the secrets of the Force. However, the Galactic Empire's choke hold on Force-education did not last and the Order was reformed following the conclusion of the Galactic Civil War. When Grand Master Luke Skywalker began to expand his Order from a single class to the size of the old Order, he opened several old academies, as well as new facilities to promote growth within the Order.

Pre-Great Jedi Purge

 * The Almas Academy
 * The Arkanian Academy
 * The Bogden Jedi Training Facility
 * The Chu'unthor
 * The Second Chu'unthor''
 * The Culu Memorial Center on Alpheridies
 * The Gray Pilgrim
 * The Jedi Academy on Obroa-skai
 * The Jedi Enclave on Bespin
 * The Jedi Enclave on Dantooine
 * The Jedi Enclave on Mustafar
 * The Jedi Enclave on Tython
 * The Jedi Praxeum on H'ratth
 * The Jedi Temple on Alaris Prime
 * The Jedi Temple on Tython
 * The Jedi Temple on Coruscant
 * The Kamparas Jedi Training Center
 * The Jedi Praxeum of Jedi Master Ooroo
 * The School of Hidden Wisdom on Baltimn (Emulated Jedi teaching with few Force-sensitives)
 * The Taris Academy
 * The Telosian Jedi Academy
 * The Jedi Praxeum on Teya IV

Post Great Jedi Purge

 * The Jedi Academy on Ossus
 * The Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4
 * The Jedi enclave on Corellia
 * The Jedi Academy on Shedu Maad
 * The New Jedi Temple
 * The First Hidden Temple
 * The Second Hidden Temple on Taivas
 * The Jedi academy in the Diamond Level of the Errant Venture during the Yuuzhan Vong War

Behind the scenes
In the Spring of 2006, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee had a vote regarding a possible name change to "Wisconsin State University". Among the write-ins: ten votes to change the institution's name to "Jedi Academy".

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith
 * Shadows and Light
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: Commencement, Part 2
 * The Betrayal of Darth Revan
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Red Harvest
 * Star Wars: Rebellion
 * Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
 * Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
 * The Courtship of Princess Leia
 * Jedi Search
 * Dark Apprentice
 * Champions of the Force
 * I, Jedi
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * Jedi Academy: Leviathan
 * Darksaber
 * Star Wars: Union
 * Young Jedi Knights series
 * Junior Jedi Knights series
 * The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest
 * Dark Nest I: The Joiner King
 * Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
 * Legacy of the Force: Betrayal
 * Bloodlines
 * Tempest
 * Exile
 * Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice
 * Inferno
 * Millennium Falcon
 * Omen
 * Star Wars: Jedi Academy