The term Real World or real world may mean:
- the stage of life that one enters after completing one's schooling, as in the sentence, "After students enter the real world, they may not be able to sleep late as often as they did while in school."
- a program on MTV in which seven strangers are picked to live in a house for a season and have their lives taped. See The Real World.
- a record label owned by Peter Gabriel that releases world music.
- the world away from the Internet, also known as real life.
- A Real World situation occurs when the reality differs from the theory