academic achievements
Educational success markers
Academic achievements are accomplishments in educational settings—degrees earned, honors received, high grades, awards, publications, or other markers of scholarly success.
The phrase appears constantly on résumés and college applications: List your academic achievements below.
Distinguished from personal qualities or extracurricular activities, academic achievements are the measurable outcomes of formal education.
- diplomaAcademic completion document
- bachelor's degreeFirst-level university qualification
- dean's listAcademic achievement recognition
- research grantsMoney awarded for studies
- patentsExclusive rights to inventions
doctorate · fellowships · summa cum laude · citations · tenure track · peer-reviewed articles · honor roll · straight A's · merit awards · grade · Rhodes Scholar · valedictorian · academic journals · master's degree · certificate · thesis defense · scholarships · GED
- education historypublic schooling, education reforms, school reform, educational reforms, one-room school
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- educatorseducator, teacher, teachers, professor, instructor
academic achievementspractical experience
Knowledge from doing, not studying
street smarts · real-world experience · vocational skills · athletic achievements · artistic achievements
academic achievementspoor grades
Unsatisfactory academic performance
underachievement · academic probation · expulsion · dropping out · learning difficulties
academic achievementsstreet smarts
Practical urban knowledge
common sense · practical wisdom · intuition · emotional intelligence · survival skills