A university is not only a school, but also an academic community. Academic community is a high-frequency term in the field of education. Under the background of the new era, on the basis of clarifying the concept of academic community, discrimination from scientific community and constituent elements, further exploring the logical implication of the construction of application-oriented university academic community and analyzing the value objective of the construction of application-oriented university academic community have important practical significance for improving the academic concept of application-oriented university and improving the academic evaluation system.