Duke's growth and academic focus have contributed to continuing the university's reputation as an academic and research powerhouse.

While being an academic powerhouse, he really could explain things clearly.

Instead, the students were deluged with 596 completed forms, representing more than half the student body at this school, which has never been known as an academic powerhouse.

Mang'u High School has not only been an academic powerhouse but also been leading in extra-curricular activities such as drama, music and mainly sports.

Transit Tech, which offers the usual high-school curriculum, is by no means an academic powerhouse.

The reputation of the school declined in the following centuries but it became an academic powerhouse under Samuel Butler, who became headmaster in 1798.

The King Edward Schools are academic powerhouses and therefore fiercely competitive to get admission.

The town has grown into an academic powerhouse of the region.

Eight of the regions' academic powerhouses have got together as 'the N8'.

But sports programs are also important to academic powerhouses.