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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Suddenly, she was free to come and go as she pleased, so when her postgraduate program in Versailles accepted her application, we went.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
He didn’t take on debt for his postgraduate degree—doctoral students are paid to do research rather than paying large sums in tuition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Mills, a postgraduate student in art history, set her alarm for 8 a.m., and logged on early to the museum’s site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The discovery grew out of analytical techniques Muller developed during her postgraduate studies in SU's Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 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
Before becoming a full-time politician, Mr David lectured at Cardiff Metropolitan University, teaching human resource management to undergraduates and postgraduates.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
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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