In the fictional universe of Star Trek, Starfleet Academy is where a first members of Starfleet learn the skills required for their jobs. A Academy was created in a season 2161, whilst the United Federation of Planets was founded. A Academy's catchword is "Ex astris, scientia" - "from the stars, knowledge". This occurs as paraphrasis of the Apollo 13 motto "Ex luna scientia," - "From the moon, knowledge." Successively, a Apollo Long dozen shibboleth was the paraphrasis of "Ex scientia tridens," a shibboleth of the United States Naval Academy, meaning "From knowledge, seapower."

A independent campus of the Academy is located touching Starfleet headquarters on Earth, in San Francisco, California, although there are other campuses. Lieutenant Tom Paris studied at a campus around Marseilles, France.

The main campus of Starfleet Academy, circa 2370 A Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Coming of Age" revolved around Wesley Crusher's first attempt to enter Starfleet Academy, & includes numbers of details of the Academy's entrance examination.

A groundskeeper of the Academy is a human known as Boothby, a character played by Ray Walston who is first featured in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The First Duty." Boothby has offered advice to, and taken interest in the careers of, several students, including Jean-Luc Picard and Kathryn Janeway, both late captains.

For non-Federation citizens, a letter of recommendation from either the command-level officer around Starfleet is involved prior to it may require the Starfleet entrance exam. Commander Benjamin Sisko wrote such a letter for Nog in 2371 when he applied for Starfleet in the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episode "Heart of Stone" .

In the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise, the Academy doesn't eventually survive; Starfleet officers of that period of time make their way their expert instruction at various service academies scattered all about Globe.

Inside 1995, a computer game with a story surrounding a Academy, known as Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, was discharged by Interplay and High Voltage Software.