WordNet
academic requirement
n. a requirement for admission to or completion of an academic program
Usage examples of "academic requirement".
No doubt I'd find a gray or ebony version of my girlfriend inside, swathed in the robes of a virtuality chador, laboring to fulfill some academic requirement in her latest major maybe Bantu Linguistics or Chinese Military History -- I couldn't follow the way her interests kept swerving, like a hundred million other permanent students on this continent alone.