Academic education refers to systematic, planned and hierarchical educational activities carried out by regular schools or institutions, aiming at cultivating students' subject knowledge, professional skills and comprehensive quality in specific fields, achieving certain learning results and obtaining corresponding academic certificates. Common academic qualifications include primary school, junior high school, senior high school, junior college, undergraduate, master and doctor.

In academic education, education can provide students with corresponding course contents, teaching services and assessment methods according to different educational stages, different disciplines or professional fields, different academic systems and different academic levels, so that students can obtain corresponding academic certificates after a series of study and assessment.

Academic education has become one of the important educational methods generally recognized in modern society. As one of the necessary ways for personal career development and further promotion of academic qualifications, it is also one of the standards for social recognition of personal academic qualifications.