The phrase "academic category" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific classification or grouping within an academic context, such as fields of study or types of courses.
Example: "The university offers a wide range of programs, each falling into a distinct academic category."
Alternatives: "scholarly classification" or "educational grouping".
You could call them nihilists, if only their subversions were more systematic; or postmodernists, if their fooling weren't so random that it shattered any academic category you could place it in.
While the growth of American students in those fields is "among the lowest of any academic category," the analysis reported, about 60 percent of foreign graduate students in this country in 2010 were enrolled in those subjects.
Among them are Ralph Earl, Winthrop Chandler and Reuben Moulthrop, whose efforts curators in some museums push toward the academic category, even though their perspectives can skew, and their figures can have a folkish stiffness.
Last year, the importance of his work, especially on SARS, helped Chowell-Puente win Mexico's prestigious National Youth Prize (academic category).
This study was large, but the investigators did not have information on hospital-specific C. difficile prevention processes; so, they were only able to examine structural hospital characteristics such as geographical location, size and academic category.
He had all the Beaux-Arts requisites: a passion for the classical past; respect for academic categories; proficient drawing and finicky high finish.
Bhatia's research defies traditional academic categories, drawing simultaneously on biological and medical sciences, and multiple engineering disciplines.
Works are shown not chronologically, but according to genres – self-portrait, portrait, nude, still life – the traditional academic categories, the better to make them fit the old boxes.
Even the more questionable inclusions, however, serve to enrich an exhibition, which, by defying the usual hierarchies and cutting across standard academic categories, refreshes our relationship to the imperishable art of drawing.
Course work at Middlebury is divided into eight academic categories: literature, the arts, foreign languages, philosophical and religious studies, physical and life sciences, historical studies, deductive reasoning and analytical processes, and social analysis.
More than 95% of students chose to list multiple majors, and 79% of students listed majors that spanned two or more of the following academic categories: humanities & arts, life sciences, physical sciences & engineering, and social sciences.
