art student - someone studying to be an artist

auditor - a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit

catechumen, neophyte - a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist

college boy, college man, collegian - a student (or former student) at a college or university

crammer - a student who crams

enrollee - a person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study

Etonian - a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Eton College

Ivy Leaguer - a student or graduate at an Ivy League school

law student - a student in law school

major - a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject; "she is a linguistics major"

medical student, medico - a student in medical school

nonreader - a student who is very slow in learning to read

overachiever - a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated

passer - a student who passes and examination

scholar - a student who holds a scholarship

seminarian, seminarist - a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary)

sixth-former - a student in the sixth form

skipper - a student who fails to attend classes

nonachiever, underachiever, underperformer - a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates

withdrawer - a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled

Wykehamist - a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College

teacher-student relation - the academic relation between teachers and their students

intellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creatively

academician, schoolman - a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation

alumna, alumnus, graduate, grad, alum - a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Arabist - a scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture

bibliographer - someone trained in compiling bibliographies

bibliophile, book lover, booklover - someone who loves (and usually collects) books

Kabbalist, Cabalist - a student of the Jewish Kabbalah

Dr., doctor - a person who holds Ph.D. degree from an academic institution; "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"

goliard - a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs

historian, historiographer - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

humanist - a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts

learned person, pundit, savant, initiate - someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

licentiate - holds a license (degree) from a (European) university

Masorete, Masorite, Massorete - a scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah)

master - someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution

mujtihad - an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts

musicologist - a student of musicology

bookworm, pedant, scholastic - a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

philosopher - a specialist in philosophy

post doc, postdoc - a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree

reader - a person who enjoys reading

Renaissance man - a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics

generalist, Renaissance man - a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests; "a statistician has to be something of a generalist"

salutatorian, salutatory speaker - the graduating student with the second highest academic rank; delivers the opening address at graduation exercises

scholiast - a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

medieval Schoolman, Schoolman - a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism

Sinologist - a student of Chinese history and language and culture

theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer - someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology (especially Christian theology)

valedictorian, valedictory speaker - the student with the best grades who delivers the valedictory at graduation

Vedist - a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas

Crichton, James Crichton, The Admirable Crichton - Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582)

Lorenzo de Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent - Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492)

Edmond Malone, Edmund Malone, Malone - English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812)

Marcus Terentius Varro, Varro - Roman scholar (116-27 BC)