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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The country's annual entrance exam season for engineering, medicine, universities and postgraduate admissions begins in December and runs through May or June.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Storm Colloms, a postgraduate researcher at the Institute for Gravitational Research, said:
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 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
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
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
The redevelopment of the site includes new student accommodation for postgraduates studying at King's College London and office space.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 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
But the story of what the politicians, and those postgraduates of politics, the statesmen, have done for and against the fishermen of New England, is not that which I have to tell.
From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
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