Exactitude of American university upset by smutty type (8)
I believe the answer is:
accuracy
'exactitude' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I don't understand how the rest of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for accuracy that I've seen before include "faithfulness" , "Correctness, precision" , "fidelity" , "Absolute correctness" , "Preciseness" .)