What sort of university did you go to where they don't do econometrics or macroeconomics, or international trade, or... all things where you can not open a text

What sort of university did you go to where they don't do econometrics or macroeconomics, or international trade, or... all things where you can not open a textbook without being confronted with real life data? The large majority of articles in top journals feature both mathematical theory and statistical&causal inference on real data.