Scholar vs. Student

Main Difference

The main difference between Scholar and Student is that the Scholar is a medieval student or cleric and Student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution

• Scholar

  A scholar is a person who devotes themselves to scholarly pursuits, particularly to the study of an area in which they have developed expertise. A scholar may also be an academic, a person who works as a teacher or researcher at a university or other higher education institution. An academic usually holds an advanced degree.

• Student

  A student is primarily a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution who attends classes in a course to attain the appropriate level of mastery of a subject under the guidance of an instructor and who devotes time outside class to do whatever activities the instructor assigns that are necessary either for class preparation or to submit evidence of progress towards that mastery. In the broader sense, a student is anyone who applies themselves to the intensive intellectual engagement with some matter necessary to master it as part of some practical affair in which such mastery is basic or decisive.

  In the United Kingdom and India, the term “student” denotes those enrolled in secondary schools and higher (e.g., college or university); those enrolled in elementary schools are called “pupils.”