How to Use postgraduate in a Sentence

postgraduate

1 of 2 adjective
  • After college, she spent her first postgraduate year studying abroad.
  • At the time of his recruitment with the Vikings, Young planned to spend a year with a postgraduate prep team.
    — Matt Goul, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Each week, dozens of graduate and postgraduate researchers lined up in the hall outside his office, waiting to meet with him.
    — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Many have noticed that Bishop Sycamore plays a lot of postgraduate players.
    — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Conversely, Shapiro said now may be the best time for people to enroll in postgraduate programs.
    — Elizabeth Elkind, CBS News, 10 May 2021
  • Nationwide, diverting postgraduate students to take care of virus patients has come at a cost.
    — Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Thomas played a year at Maryland after his postgraduate year at Avon Old Farms.
    — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 28 May 2021
  • The Rhodes scholarships finance up to four years of postgraduate study at Oxford.
    — Richard PÉrez-PeÑa, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
  • In the process, many began offering postgraduate courses in public health.
    — Fortune, 14 May 2021
  • The narrator, who is unnamed, is adrift after dropping out of a one-year postgraduate honors program.
    — Regina Marler, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The increase has been driven largely by mothers who have bachelor's or postgraduate degrees.
    — ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • Those with postgraduate degrees were twice as likely to be drawing up exit plans as those with only a secondary-school education.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Clinton led by 4 points among college graduates and 22 among those with postgraduate degrees.
    — Zak Hudak, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2020
  • To pay the bills, her English mother worked as a secretary by day and at night typed postgraduate doctoral theses for students.
    — Tara John/london, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
  • In his postgraduate days, when his colleagues were debating how cognition could be shaped by culture, Osgood thought back on this image.
    — James Somers, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Two-thirds of Americans without high school degrees say religion is very important in their lives, but less than half of those with postgraduate degrees say this.
    — Joan C. Williams, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The whole postgraduate project—en masse college education, as Obama and others push it—defies logic or reason.
    — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2020
  • One is that more and more students will decide graduate school is not worth it and won’t go at all despite the growing share of the workforce that requires some form of postgraduate education.
    — Aris Folley, The Hill, 3 July 2025
  • The Roanoke sample included 27 percent of likely voters with postgraduate degrees, a group that leans blue.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
  • Velez is now pursuing postgraduate work at Central Saint Martins art school in London.
    — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2019
  • His three daughters also went on to earn postgraduate degrees, a point of pride for Washington and his wife, Claudith — childhood sweethearts who met on a school bus.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Democrats with a postgraduate degree are three times as inaccurate in their perceptions of Republicans as Democrats who dropped out of high school.
    — Amanda Ripley, Twin Cities, 30 June 2019
  • Four winners were named last week, including Rogers, who is entering her second year at Howard and aiming to earn a postgraduate certificate.
    — Sarah Larimer, Washington Post, 19 June 2017
  • Why should taxpayers pay for four years of college, not to mention additional years of postgraduate study, for a person who can’t use that education to make enough money to pay back his or her loans?
    — WSJ, 24 Feb. 2020
  • One of its founders is Roger Hallam, a fifty-three-year-old organic farmer from Wales, who is also a postgraduate student of theories of social change.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 July 2019
  • In 2002, Dalton, by then a postgraduate student in history, returned to the subject.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
  • Among those with postgraduate degrees, 7 in 10 said Russia tried to interfere with the election, while just over half of those with a high school education or less said that was the case.
    — John Wagner, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
  • That map says a lot about the dispersal of postgraduate Chinese immigrants across the country—in each of these cities Chen has teamed up with former schoolmates, many of whom are hanging on to their day jobs.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 5 July 2018
  • Stories set in the Ivory Tower are often understood to be insular and low-stakes, with little to offer anyone who doesn’t possess a postgraduate degree.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most selective in the world, is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford.
    — Jenna Kunze, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2020

postgraduate

2 of 2 noun
  • Murray Hill, long known as a go-to rental area for postgraduates, is going through some growing pains.
    — Kaya Laterman, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2017
  • All carry a five-year postgraduate active duty commitment, with three years in the reserves.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Those who did respond that way were likely to be either workers with a postgraduate degree or people with higher incomes.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 30 Mar. 2023
  • When the researchers looked at young Americans who had gone on to get a postgraduate degree, the situation was even more dire.
    — Paul Tough, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • As a break from the drudgery of surviving a fraught postgraduate landscape, Harris sought refuge in her imagination.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, IndieWire, 16 May 2026
  • Unless this loan is for postgraduate education, perhaps your grandson has faced some challenges and delays on the pathway to a degree.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
  • The Gates Cambridge Scholarships are among the most most prestigious awards for postgraduate study in the world.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • My postgraduate studies in low-life bohemianism seemed even shoddier by contrast.
    — Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Women with a postgraduate degree and liberal or Democratic women were also far more likely to do so.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Drahi, who had a postgraduate degree from Télécom Paris, one of the country’s top engineering schools, was a cable guy.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Where a postgraduate degree is required for state licensure and ability to legally practice in your profession.
    — Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The center left and progressive left—or the postgraduates who control both sides in the party’s debate—have a similar answer to inequality.
    — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2020
  • People with a postgraduate education were also more likely than average to own stock (79%).
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 8 May 2023
  • To attract the most highly skilled, Mr Piñera announced a new visa for postgraduates from the world’s top 200 universities.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Gina, who had become legally blind due to a genetic condition, was raped by a fellow student during a summer postgraduate fellowship.
    — Andrew Stark, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • If the paths for getting there—which may include postgraduate study in a doctoral program or professional school—are diminishing, then college itself will follow suit.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Though postgraduate earnings are drawn from IRS data, most of the rest of this information comes from the institutions themselves.
    — Jon Marcus, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • His postgraduate fellowship further refined his approach.
    — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • All the while scholarships, financial aid, tuition expenses and postgraduate grants are becoming more paramount to would-be student decision-making.
    — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In China, students must pass a highly competitive national postgraduate entrance exam and then study for at least two years before landing a master’s degree.
    — Joyce Jiang, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The company’s software allows students to estimate financial and merit aid, research postgraduate earnings by major, and build a financial plan that may include loans.
    — Nicole Laporte, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2023
  • According to Sports Business, only 13 percent of the students in sports business postgraduate programs are female.
    — Rod Berger, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Harvey, who studied philosophy as a postgraduate, makes a mighty, poignant attempt at intellectual rigor, as if the insanity of her ailment were best glimpsed through weaves of deduction.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 June 2020
  • Originally from the United Kingdom, Humphrey first went to China as a 23-year-old postgraduate student.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Paul was a graduate and had been pursuing postgraduate studies in both law and real estate, Oeste SC Notícias reported.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Jonathan, a postgraduate research scholar, says her 2019 research project found that that dolphins are ending up as by-catch, that is, species that are caught and die in the course of commercial fishing for another species.
    — Andrew Wight, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • After finishing her bachelor and postgraduate degrees overseas, Zhao returned to Beijing to work in investor relations.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Paris’s prestigious postgraduate school Ecole Normale Superieure was in for a surprise this summer when results of its admission exam for literature came out.
    — Geraldine Amiel, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Diminishing value of higher degree Meanwhile, fewer students are betting on postgraduate studies.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025
  • One postgraduate student at HKU has reported at least two faculty members to the tip line, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 5 June 2021

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