undergraduate
noun
un·der·grad·u·ate
ˌən-dər-ˈgra-jə-wət 
-ˌwāt;
-ˈgraj-wət
: a student at a college or university who has not received a first and especially a bachelor's degree
undergraduate
adjective
Examples of undergraduate in a Sentence
a group of college undergraduates
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The state's public higher education system as a whole saw its second annual increase in fall undergraduate enrollment after nine straight years of declines.
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Steph Solis, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
In 2010, Grant Van Horn was an undergraduate at U.C. San Diego and working in a computer-vision and machine-learning lab led by the computer scientist Serge Belongie.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
The 2023 academic year saw a total undergraduate enrollment of 8,176 with tuition costing $49,140.
—Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
He was required reading for decades of graduate students—and the bolder undergraduates.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2024
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Steph Solis, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
In 2010, Grant Van Horn was an undergraduate at U.C. San Diego and working in a computer-vision and machine-learning lab led by the computer scientist Serge Belongie.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
The 2023 academic year saw a total undergraduate enrollment of 8,176 with tuition costing $49,140.
—Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
He was required reading for decades of graduate students—and the bolder undergraduates.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2024
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undergraduate
noun
un·der·grad·u·ate
ˌən-dər-ˈgraj-(ə-)wət
-ə-ˌwāt
: a student at a college or university who has not yet received a degree
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