higher education

noun

1. uncountable Education beyond a level viewed as basic, such as any beyond universal government-funded secondary education. Holonym: education
2. uncountable Education at a university level or beyond. (Often with more or less connotation of education that leads to higher rank in a hierarchy of social class.) For some, the goals of their higher education involved deep meaningfulness or the frontiers of knowledge; others aspired merely to elitism. Some were honest enough to admit to themselves that meaning, service, money, and class rank were all among their motives.