Academic

Academia is the internationally recognized establishment of professional scholars and students, usually centered around colleges and universities, who are engaged in higher education and research. Many academic institutions reflect the division of disciplines in their administrative structure, being organized internally into departments or programs. Each department is administered and funded separately by the academic institution, though there may be some faculty members, research and administrative staff that may shared departments.

Academic institutions generally have the tenure system, a major component of academic employment and research. It ensure that academia is relatively protected from political and financial influence.

Academic qualification are organize in order of completion, associate's degree, bachelor's degree (undergraduate study), master's degree, and doctorate (after graduate or postgraduate study). The majority of academic researchers and teachers have doctorates or other degrees, though in some professional and creative fields it is common for scholars and teachers to have only master's degrees.