undergraduate
noun
a student in a university or college who has not received a first, especially a bachelor's, degree.
undergraduates
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pluralof undergraduate.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Nearly half of Caltech’s graduate students, 46%, come from abroad, along with 16% of undergraduates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
There are currently 34 juniors in the major, suggesting it has become less popular at the liberal-art college, which has some 2,000 undergraduates overall.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Signers would cap international undergraduates at 15%, require the SAT or ACT and freeze tuition for five years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
McKinsey is testing the avatar with undergraduates applying for business-analyst jobs in some North American offices this fall, and hundreds of candidates are likely to participate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Moira told me once that it used to be where the undergraduates ate, in the earlier days of the university.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
