academic excellence
Top educational achievement
Academic excellence refers to outstanding achievement in educational pursuits—high grades, rigorous study, intellectual distinction.
Schools and universities promote it as an ideal: The scholarship rewards academic excellence.
The phrase appears constantly in institutional mission statements and award ceremonies, sometimes so routinely that it becomes meaningless boilerplate.
- summa cum laudeTop graduation honor
- valedictorianTop-ranked graduating student
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
- curriculumEducational program's content plan
- critical thinkingObjective evaluation of information
analytical skills · education · honor roll · straight A's · grade point average · university · tenure track · publish or perish · intellectual curiosity · alumni network · study habits · honor society · ivy league · meritocracy · accolades · perseverance · prestigious · time management
- elite schoolsprivate academies, preparatory schools, selective schools, Ivy League, grammar schools
- Educational Fundingscholarship, grant, merit scholarship, education grant, federal aid
- French Educationlycee, baccalaureate, classes, college, rector
- universitiesuniversities, Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge
- achieversachiever, high achiever, overachiever, go-getter, striver
- awardsaward, awards, winner, winners, prize
academic excellenceanti-intellectualism
Hostility toward educated thought
book-burning · willful ignorance · street smarts · practical skills · athletic achievement