postgraduate
Americanadjective
noun
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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In some universities, students are promised additional benefits, including lump-sum payments, budget-funded places, easier admission to postgraduate courses, or better accommodation.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Alex Papadopoulos, a postgraduate researcher at the Institute for Gravitational Research, explained that the expanded catalog is also helping scientists tackle one of cosmology's biggest unanswered questions: how fast the Universe is expanding.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 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
After high school in Rumson, N.J., he opted to do a postgraduate year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
For a moment he felt as if he, too, had betrayed her by having his own plan: to get a postgraduate degree in America, to work in America, to live in America.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The survey found education correlates with generosity: donor participation peaks among graduates and postgraduates.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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 Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo
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