Associate Professor
Player Title
Associate Professor <Name> Achievement
Associate Professor is the title reward of the achievement What was Briefly Yours is Now Mine (10 points, filed under Archaeology).
Details
In game this title prints before your character's name. The client stores it as the format string Associate Professor %s, where %s is the character wearing it.
How to Obtain
Earned from this achievement:
What the Achievement Asks
The client’s own line for What was Briefly Yours is Now Mine is “Find 10 rare artifacts.” It is worth 10 achievement points.
It supercedes I Had It in My Hand, so completing this one credits the earlier step as well.
A later achievement, It Belongs in a Museum!, builds on it.
The client tracks one step toward it:
- Find 10 rare artifacts.
Who Is Wearing It
67 of the 257,834 ranked PvP characters in our own leaderboard snapshot are wearing “Associate Professor” right now, which is 0.03% of them. The snapshot was last refreshed on 4 November 2026.
- 67 displaying it
- rank 330 of 581 worn titles
- 32 Alliance
- 35 Horde
- 32 in EU
- 35 in US
581 different titles are being displayed across that snapshot, and this one sits at number 330 by wearers.
The specialisation those characters play most is Preservation (6 of them), ahead of Restoration (6), Retribution (6).
Counted from the characters on the current PvP ladders we refresh, not from every player in the game: Blizzard publishes no ownership figure for a title. Browse the leaderboards those characters come from.