The phrase "student type" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a type of person or characteristics that are typical of students for example, "The professor was surprised that the student type was more interested in practical applications than theoretical learning."
The 70s student type – think Ali MacGraw in Love Story – had her moment too.
Steve Damon Joness) is a quiet white grad student type whose world is shattered when the skinheads attack him and his African-American girlfriend, Sam Elexa WilliamsSam Elexa Williams
One is a dispossessed aristocrat (Diogo Dória) and the other a young student type (Carloto Cotta) who Julie pretends might be the reincarnation of Dom Sebastião, the Portuguese monarch whose second coming is a staple of local legend.
Renton has all the chances – a place at university, a lovely girlfriend – but blows them all, owing, it seems, to his torment over his "spazzy" younger brother, and to something like an identity crisis: "That's ma problem; ah'm too fuckin poncy tae be a proper Leith gadgie n too fuckin schemie tae be an arty student type".
I didn't know I needed to read another story in which an inexperienced young student type seeks self-knowledge in the arms of an older, seemingly wiser professorial type, but in "My Education" the theme felt entirely original and masterfully handled.
So she told journalists how unhappy she was and, in her mind at least, the whole episode has become a kind of urban myth in which she was simply a typical student type who was portrayed as an artist falling apart.
The student types "2x+10".
The student types in "vache", the machine says "no".
The student types in "fromage", the machine says "yes".
"You'd have a couple of snarky student types watching TV clips and being amusing about them," Armstrong recalls.
When one of the speakers brought up Pinterest, one of the students typed into the discussion forum, "What is Pinterest?" In seconds, another student typed into the chat box: "It's a social bulletin board — image based".
