graduate school

noun

1. a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.

Word History and Origins

Origin of graduate school¹

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

In 2003 he took an African American art history class in graduate school, and when he tried to put together a bibliography, he found it difficult to find primary sources.

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Olsen: Even after you went to graduate school, I think there were a few years after school before you really sort of got your career going.

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Di Carlo said that undergraduate students he advises have begun asking for his advice on relocating to universities abroad for graduate school.

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When I was accepted into graduate school at UCLA, I retired as a dental hygienist and moved in with Clark.

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While he was in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, Khawaja was moved by an essay that argued that fish suffer inhumane deaths because they cannot vocalize pain.

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Related Words

• university