UNDERGRADUATE Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

undergraduate

noun

Definition of undergraduate

as in student

a person enrolled in a college or university who has not yet earned a degree a group of college undergraduates

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Recent Examples of undergraduate Some of this is offset by a rise in graduate students, but while schools such as TCU and Texas Tech continue to enjoy an increase in enrollment, Baylor’s undergraduate numbers are an undeniable concern for university leadership. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2026 Signers would cap international undergraduates at 15%, require the SAT or ACT and freeze tuition for five years. — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 Cornell is among the less difficult Ivy League schools to get into, and it is known for its top engineering program, while also being one of the few Ivies with a business school open to undergraduates. — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026 However, the math for many has shifted over time, making an investment in an undergraduate and graduate degree riskier. — Jessica Dickler,annie Nova, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for undergraduate

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Noun

Calhoun graduated from Cincinnati in 2004 and was a student assistant under Huggins during the 2003-04 season.

— CBS News, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
School districts in New York, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Missouri have included caffeine pouches in student conduct policies or prohibited their use on campus.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of student

Noun

Morning Glory Milking Farm is the tale of a broke postgraduate who takes a job collecting minotaur semen for a pharmaceutical company.

— Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026
After exiting La Perla, Masotti focused on his Fashion Research Italy, a nonprofit organization founded in 2015, with headquarters in Bologna, postgraduate courses and an educational and exhibition hub dedicated to Made in Italy.

— Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of postgraduate

Noun

During that period and beyond, Hawthorne kept a series of notebooks, which scholars see as an important primary source for understanding the ideas and descriptions that informed his early writings and later novels.

— Robert S. Levine, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
For decades, hundreds of thousands of its objects were available only to scholars and curators.

— Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

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