postsecondary

Or post-sec·ond·ar·y

[pohst-sek-uhn-der-ee]

adjective

1. of or relating to education beyond high school.

   She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.

   Students can begin coursework in aircraft maintenance at the high school level and complete it at a post-secondary institution.

Word History and Origins

Origin of postsecondary¹

First recorded in 1920–25; post- ( def. ) + secondary ( def. )

Example Sentences

“Psychologically it has the same kind of tone of 10-minute abs,” Clare McCann, the managing director of policy and operations at the Postsecondary Education & Economics Research Center, said of short-term training programs.

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“This bill clarifies, to the extent permitted by federal law, that California public and private postsecondary educational institutions may consider providing a preference in admissions to an applicant who is a descendant of slavery,” Newsom wrote Monday in his veto.

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The state’s Council on Postsecondary Education filed a joint motion, according to Bloomberg Law, that asks a judge to declare Kentucky’s policy unlawful.

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The federal government is relying on a federal law that bans states from offering any postsecondary education benefit to a person not lawfully present in the U.S. within their borders, unless the same benefit is also offered to U.S. citizens without regard to where they live.

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Veterans are twice as likely to attend those colleges as other students, according to the Postsecondary National Policy Institute.

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