Made to suffer in excellent college (7)
I believe the answer is:
academe
'college' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'made to suffer in excellent' is the wordplay.
'to suffer' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'suffers' mean this).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'excellent' becomes 'ace' (I've seen this in another clue).
'made' is an anagram of 'adem'.
'adem' placed into 'ace' is 'ACADEME'.
(Other definitions for academe that I've seen before include "learned environment" , "The scholarly world" , "The educational sector" , "The world of scholars" , "Scholarly life" .)