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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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
Credit-card use among undergraduates jumped to 54% in 2025, from 43% in 2018, according to the nonprofit higher-education research firm Trellis Strategies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
At Southern Methodist University in Dallas, nearly half of the undergraduates are members of 28 fraternities or sororities—including three the school added this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Martina Serrano Alvarez and Reed Noyd also participated while they were undergraduates, and Colin Miller contributed as a doctoral student.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
He was probably one of the oldest undergraduates at college, but he joined the military after high school in Iran and didn't move to Baton Rouge until his early twenties.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
