AP

Education

• Advanced Placement, a program that offers college level courses at high schools across the United States and Canada
• Ang Pamantasan, a Philippine university student publication
• Assistant principal, the assistant chief administrator in a school
• Associate Professor, an academic faculty rank in North America
• Austin Peay State University, a public university in Clarksville, Tennessee

Law

• Advance parole, a United States immigration law term
• Administration Police, Kenyan security unit

Linguistics

• ap, a Welsh patronym
• Ap , the Vedic Sanskrit term for water
• Adjectival phrase, a term used in linguistics to denote a phrase with an adjective as its head

Media

Publishing

• Associated Press, an American news agency
• Allied Press, a major New Zealand newspaper company
• Alternative Press , a music magazine
• A&P , a short story by John Updike referring to the retailer A&P

Other

• Astral Projection , an electronic musical group producing psychedelic and goa trance music
• Animal Planet, a television channel dedicated to animals
• The A&P Gypsies, a musical radio program (1924–36), named after the retailer A&P
• Action point, a point-system used in video games

Medicine

• Arterial pressure, the pressure in the arteries (most prominently the Aorta)
• Action potential, a "spike" of electrical discharge that travels along the membrane of a cell
• Alkaline phosphatase, an......