postgraduate
Americanadjective
noun
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postgraduates
plural
noun
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a student who has obtained a degree from a university, etc, and is pursuing studies for a more advanced qualification
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(modifier) of or relating to such a student or to his studies
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Students and graduates in England have different loan plans depending on when and what they studied, and the cap will only apply to Plan 2 loans and Plan 3 postgraduate loans from September.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
After receiving a postgraduate diploma in marketing at the Australian Graduate School of Management, she held senior positions at Australian telecom companies including Telstra.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Analysis by BBC Scotland News has revealed that more than 4,000 spaces on the secondary postgraduate teacher training course, the PGDE, have not been filled in the past nine years.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
When I completed my postgraduate studies in the late 1990s, I shelved my doctoral finance thesis in a dusty library.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
“Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij. How can someone pursuing a postgraduate degree in American literature display such abominable English-language skills?”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
While there had been a "significant drop in international students" - who are largely postgraduates, and who pay higher fees - Hillman said universities were utilising their resources for UK undergraduates instead.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
UNLV, less than two miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, has an enrollment of about 25,000 undergraduates and 8,000 postgraduates and doctoral candidates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
CAS reduced the unidentified team leader’s funding and suspended him from supervising postgraduates for a year, according to the news report.
From Science Magazine ● May 24, 2023
He told me that many of his clients are postgraduates worried about their money situation, and a large debt balance is “a dark cloud that always follows you.”
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2023
From the ranks of this wayward class came the old editors and reporters; they were postgraduates from the back room of newspaper offices and they brought to the front room their easy view of life.
From In Our Town by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger
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