"exceptional academic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that has achieved exceptional results in academic endeavors. For example, "The student had exceptional academic results, with a 4.0 GPA and several awards for her research."
"Applicants selected to be interviewed at Cambridge also have to demonstrate exceptional academic potential.
Under his energetic and flamboyant leadership, the school developed an exceptional academic reputation and served in these troubled times as a bridge between the Islamic and Western Worlds.
Classmates of Juan at Miami Killian Senior High School, citing his exceptional academic performance, rallied the support of federal lawmakers, winning a temporary reprieve from deportation for the two young men.
Scholarships NCH offers a select number of scholarships - including some named after individual members of its professoriate such as professor Richard Dawkins - to recognise exceptional academic potential and achievements.
Perhaps women are more likely to avoid starting a family if they're an academic high flyer, or perhaps women are being actively discriminated against unless they display exceptional academic achievements.
Outstanding entrepreneur, public servant, and philanthropist, he was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree in 1982, served on the Graduate Center Foundation Board for over two decades, and in 1985 generously established the J. Bruce Llewellyn Fellowship, which recognizes exceptional academic promise in African Americans as they pursue the doctoral degree.
At the heart of a world class aerospace complex located in an exceptional industrial, academic and research environment, the Toulouse Business School was bound to devote its management expertise to the service of aerospace companies.
There are, of course, some exceptional senior academics who work hard to ensure that their own success and ability to generate big funding results in future jobs opportunities for their own students and other postgraduates who fight tooth and nail to take the next step into the academic world.
"We're very comfortable saying some kids are the best in sports, but we're not as comfortable singling out the kids who are really exceptional in academics," says science fair alumna Lisa Randall, a Harvard theoretical-physics professor who won the Westinghouse competition as a senior.
The typical high functioning male, if he is lucky, finds a secure post in a university where he can use his exceptional powers for academic study, shunning most social contact as the "eccentric professor", and relaxing at home with his train set in the attic.
Although the remarkable optical activity of these macroscale plasmonic platforms makes them exceptional candidates for academic applications, such as single-molecule detection 10 (see Figure S10), in this study we designed an ultrafast and reversible optical sensor for the monitoring of carbon monoxide (CO) with an inexpensive handheld Raman spectrometer (see Figure S11).
