| COLLEGES | Schools of a university (8) |
| ACADEMY | School of a particular art |
| VEDANTIC | Relating to one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy (8) |
| MAHAYANA | One of the two schools of Buddhism |
| OPINIONS | Schools of thought, in fact, can have different viewpoints (8) |
| AQUARIUS | Sign of a university in Iraq upsetting America (8) |
| CAMPUSES | Locations of a university (8) |
| DEGREASE | Clean gun parts as part of a university qualification (8) |
| REDBRICK | Of a university, more recent than Oxford and Cambridge (8) |
| AUTONOMY | Independence of a university man receiving high honour |
| ARTS | Displays of craft in schools of learning |
| SEINE | Vertically-hanging net, with or without a bottom 'drawstring', used by fishermen to encircle schools of fish |
| MOSUL | City of Iraq, noted for its schools of metalwork and painting under the 12th/13th-century Zangid dynasty (5) |
| PODS | Schools of whales, seals or dolphins; or, the seed vessels of pea, cacao, bean, vanilla and chilli plants (4) |
| SECTS | (Religious) followings; schools of opinion; dissenting cliques, factions or parties; or, classes of people (5) |
| GAMS | Word for herds, pods or schools of dolphins, porpoises or whales; social visits, originally between whalers at sea; flocks of large sea birds; women's legs; or, in the Scots language, mouths, teeth or |
| SEMINARIES | Schools of theology |
| ISMS | Schools of thought, slangily |
| NEO | Prefix used with many schools of thought |
| DOGMAS | Schools of thoughts |
