undergraduate
noun
a student in a university or college who has not received a first, especially a bachelor's, degree.
undergraduates
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pluralof undergraduate.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Signers would cap international undergraduates at 15%, require the SAT or ACT and freeze tuition for five years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Credit-card use among undergraduates jumped to 54% in 2025, from 43% in 2018, according to the nonprofit higher-education research firm Trellis Strategies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
At Southern Methodist University in Dallas, nearly half of the undergraduates are members of 28 fraternities or sororities—including three the school added this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
With help from Berkeley undergraduates, Vazquez traveled throughout the region, setting up mist nets over streams, ponds and rivers at night.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
I had half an hour to kill, so I wandered through the university bookstore, then got some coffee and sat outside on a stone bench, watching the parade of undergraduates.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
