An educated and intellectual elite WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers. Wikipedia

Status class of educated people Wikidata

An elite group of intellectuals; learned people, the literati. Wiktionary