scholar vs student

scholar

noun
  • A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship. 

  • A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge. 

  • someone who received a prestigious scholarship 

  • A learned person; a bookman. 

student

noun
  • A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution. 

  • A person who is enrolled at a college or university (as contrasted with a pupil or schoolchild attending a primary or secondary school). 

  • A person who studies or learns about a particular subject. 

How often have the words scholar and student occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )