A report on Professor, Academy and Scholar

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof. ) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.

A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university.

Many colleges and universities and other institutions of higher learning throughout the world follow a similar hierarchical ranking structure amongst scholars in academia; the list above provides details.

The term scholar is sometimes used with equivalent meaning to that of academic and describes in general those who attain mastery in a research discipline.

In the United States, the term academic is approximately synonymous with that of the job title professor although in recent decades a growing number of institutions include librarians in the category of "academic staff".