Higher Learning

Higher education is tertiary education leading to the award of an academic degree.

Higher education, which makes up a component of post-secondary, third-level, or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

It represents levels 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the 2011 version of the International Standard Classification of Education structure.

Tertiary education at a nondegree level is sometimes referred to as further education or continuing education as distinct from higher education.