Higher education

2. the latest time or date by which something should be completed
5. a grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement.
7. the acknowledgement of a student's completion of a course or activity that counts towards a degree or diploma as maintained in a school's records
8. a person who makes a formal application for something, especially a job
11. having the right to do or obtain something; satisfying the appropriate conditions
13. a student's principal subject or course
14. fail to reach the required standard in (an examination, test, or course of study)
15. a long essay or dissertation involving personal research, written by a candidate for a university degree
16. a second-year university or high-school student
17. a letter written on behalf of an applicant by someone who can vouch for that person's educational or professional performance

1. a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services
3. a task or piece of work allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study
4. a group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge
6. abandon or discontinue (a course of action or study)
9. a group of long-established universities in the eastern US having high academic and social prestige. It includes Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia (two words written together)
10. a first-year student at university
12. an official record of a student's work, showing courses taken and grades achieved