Professor was a title given to scholarly teachers to denote their academic ability. It was often, though not exclusively, given to those who had achieved a certain level of learning or held a position that earned them the title.

Ace often referred to theSeventh Doctor as "the Professor" throughout her early association with him (TV:Dragonfire, et al.) and still continued to refer to him as "Professor" in a friendly manner several years later. (PROSE:Happy Endings)

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Liz Shaw was a professor at theUniversity of Cambridge. (AUDIO:Primord)

Dorothy McShane was a professor ofSociology, giving lectures at a college. (AUDIO:Dark Universe)

In the year100,000,000,000,000,Yana used the title of professor, despite there having been no universities for over a thousand years. (TV:Utopia)

Professor Marius, who builtK9 and later gave him to theFourth Doctor, was a specialist in extraterrestrial pathological endomorphisms (alien viruses) at theBi-Al Foundation in the year5000. (TV:The Invisible Enemy)

Bernice Summerfield originally faked her qualifications as a professor ofarchaeology; however, she did eventually obtain a professorship. (PROSE:Love and War,Return of the Living Dad)

ProfessorCandy interviewed River Song when she applied toLuna University to study archaeology. (TV:Let's Kill Hitler)

River Song introduced herself to theTenth Doctor as a professor of archaeology. (TV:Silence in the Library) She was not yet a professor at the time of the crash of theByzantium, although theEleventh Doctor accidentally let slip that she one day would be. (TV:The Time of Angels) She was forced to "kill" the Doctor almost immediately after receiving her doctorate. (TV:Closing Time) After she was pardoned for his "murder", she returned to Archaeology and became a Professor. (TV:The Angels Take Manhattan) She seemed to prefer to be called Doctor Song rather than Professor Song asNardole stated that she was only "sometimes" called Professor. (TV:The Husbands of River Song)

The crew of theRussiansubmarine that theEleventh Doctor encountered in1983 calledGrisenko "the Professor". (TV:Cold War)

K'rokk was a professor. (COMIC:The Cornucopia Caper)