Academy

Noun

1. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.

   "the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music; a music academy; a language academy"

3. A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.

   "the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology"

4. Academia.
5. A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.