higher education

noun

1. education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.

higher education

noun

1. education and training at colleges, universities, polytechnics, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of higher education¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

The custodial accounts can’t be invested in individual stocks and are UGMA and UTMA accounts, meaning they can be used for expenses like higher education and turned over to the minor when they reach the appropriate age.

From Washington Post

Still, higher education experts caution that an uptick in applications at some four-year institutions, while a good sign, is only a part of the story.

From Washington Post

Liberal Democrats and Republicans in Congress recognized that a growing number of Americans needed and wanted higher education in the Cold War’s early years.

From Washington Post

They are among the most economically vulnerable students in higher education and have very few protections.

From Washington Post

These are but a few examples among many of the profound and continuing havoc that the coronavirus crisis has wreaked in higher education.

From Washington Post

Harvard calls itself “the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.”

From The Daily Beast

Emory is also one of dozens of higher education institutions with open Title IX sexual violence investigations.

From The Daily Beast

The politicization of public higher education in Texas is hardly new.

From The Daily Beast

“Economic diversity,” by contrast, brings economic difference into higher education in order to liquidate the difference.

From The Daily Beast

“Economic diversity” has entered the language as a standard way to talk about inequality in higher education.

From The Daily Beast

It has continued to be an outstanding institution for higher education in the United States.

From Project Gutenberg

These four great centres of learning constitute the system of Higher Education in Scotland.

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She had not liked this quotation from Mrs. Owen's utterances on this vexed question of higher education.

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Similar arguments are frequently urged against the desire to raise the standard and widen the avenues of the "higher education."

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Who's this rival who has made the higher education seem necessary for Morton Bassett's daughter?

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