Were the Alhambra-style exteriors of Shiz University based on an existing American university? I swear I’ve seen them before in one of those “20 Best University Campus” articles (and also that collee that Buffy Summers briefly attended). I’m not asking about the bonkers library, which was Hogwarts-meets-2001, just the exteriors.
Haven’t seen the movie, but perhaps UCLA?
Stanford, maybe?
For what it’s worth, this appears to be an image of the place, from the movie:
I’m going with UCLA.