Academia :  (noun)

1: the academic world [syn: academe]

academe, alma mater, college, college of engineering, community college, degree-granting institution, four-year college, graduate school, institute of technology, ivied halls, journalism school, junior college, law school, medical school, multiversity, normal, normal school, postgraduate school, school of communications, school of education, two-year college, university, university college, varsity,