The phrase "academic universities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to institutions of higher education that focus on academic study and research, distinguishing them from vocational or technical schools.
Example: "Many academic universities offer a wide range of programs that cater to both undergraduate and graduate students."
Alternatives: "higher education institutions" or "research universities".
Second, Finns have taken teachers and teaching seriously by requiring that all teachers must be well trained in academic universities.
Legislative approval is not required because the planners are making the medical school a part of U.T.-Austin, bucking the state's history of having medical institutions separate from its academic universities.
There is also still a divide at university level between the academic universities and the polytechnics (as the government calls them) or the universities of applied science, as they style themselves.
Entirely new academic universities have been added to the ranks of the ancient institutions, and the status of institutes and colleges of technology, education, and art have been upgraded to university rank.
That created a panoply of new academic courses, many of dubious merit, and kicked away a vital pillar of the higher education system, between the purely vocational further education colleges and the fully academic universities.
Not surprising, his college list reflects some of the top academic universities in the country, including Stanford, Duke, North Carolina, U.C.L.A., Iowa State, Iowa, Florida, Southern California and Minnesota.
For an academic university you have to remember we don't have people training to be artists.
With few private dollars, they achieved their athletic goal and managed to keep Binghamton a premier academic university.
Academic (university, research institute).
1. Academic (university, research institute) .
A suburban academic university-affiliated emergency department (ED) with 75,000 visits per year.
