as in graduate
of or relating to studies done after earning a bachelor's degree or other degree
After college, she spent her first postgraduate year studying abroad.
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Recent Examples of postgraduate
Walter Loeb, Forbes, 16 June 2022
The University of California and 48,000 people who work as teachers and researchers while earning postgraduate degrees came to a tentative labor agreement Friday, both sides announced.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2022
Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Additional public universities were developed after 1947, notably the prestigious Quaid-i-Azam University, founded in 1967 to offer postgraduate programs, and the Allam Igbal Open University, Pakistan’s largest university with over 1 million students, founded in 1974.
—Bryan Penprase, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
Academia is important for a few reasons; this community generates studies that influence company actions or consumer choices and also often awakens young people to be creative in their postgraduate years.
—Walter Loeb, Forbes, 16 June 2022
The University of California and 48,000 people who work as teachers and researchers while earning postgraduate degrees came to a tentative labor agreement Friday, both sides announced.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2022
Noun
The Gates Cambridge scholarship fully funds postgraduate study and research in any subject at the University of Cambridge.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Additional public universities were developed after 1947, notably the prestigious Quaid-i-Azam University, founded in 1967 to offer postgraduate programs, and the Allam Igbal Open University, Pakistan’s largest university with over 1 million students, founded in 1974.
—Bryan Penprase, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
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Lisa Lowe and Jamie Leonard, graduate students at UCLA, along with Sanjay Mohanty, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA, shared the findings at the American Chemical Society's 2025 meeting in San Diego last month.—
Gretchen Eichenberg,
FOXNews.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Zia co-coordinated our largest ever Debate Watch Party, drawing ~500 students, primarily consisting of graduate students.—
Olivia Antigua,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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As of the 2019-20 school year, 55 percent of undergraduates got some form of federal aid.—
Anna North,
Vox,
3 Apr. 2025
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At Menlo College in Atherton, California, a quarter of the 875 undergraduates come from outside the U.S., primarily from China, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Trinity College is an excellent academic institution where my mom obtained her master’s degree.—
Nikos Mohammadi,
Hartford Courant,
6 Apr. 2025
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Williams’ academic performance, extracurricular leadership, community service learning and essay on the impact of military service on the family earned her the award.—
Lena Miano,
Arkansas Online,
6 Apr. 2025
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Similarly bringing multiple partners together, The Living Tent is a project that stems from the work of an interdisciplinary group of eleven students and two professors from Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art (HSLU).—
Roddy Clarke,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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In the Fort Worth Independent School District, where nearly half of the city’s public school students are enrolled, 33% of students scored on grade level in reading on last year’s STAAR — a number that has barely budged for at least a decade.—
Silas Allen,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Postgraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postgraduate. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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