How to Use undergraduate in a Sentence

undergraduate

noun
  • All the undergraduates at Harvard read the New York Times in those days.
    Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • An undergraduate from the lab, Lily Reisinger, built the box and set up the experiment.
    WIRED, 28 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, about 1 in 8 undergraduates changed the school in which they were enrolled last fall.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • At the time, the now-governor Moore was an undergraduate studying abroad in South Africa.
    Lisa Iannucci, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Miles studied theatre at Yale twice, first as an undergraduate and then as a master’s student in the class of 1994.
    Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The class, an elective, was open to any undergraduate student at NYU.
    Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The first year the class was offered, nearly a quarter of the undergraduate student body enrolled.
    David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Last year, Charlie Cowen-Breen, an undergraduate in his department, asked him to sign off on a project.
    Quanta Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Being able to study at her own pace helped her graduate from high school at the age of 13 and earn her undergraduate degree three years later.
    Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 16 May 2022
  • That morning, Mia V. Aponte Román, an undergraduate, squeezed poop out of a snake’s intestines and into a strainer.
    Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2024
  • With only 20 undergraduates, one of Dr. James’ first steps was halving the 60-person staff.
    Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Looking at the first-year undergraduate class, the percentage of U.S. students of color has dropped from roughly 50% last year to 44% this year.
    Alexandra Chaidez, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2024
  • One undergraduate who’d been doxed told me that her parents were new immigrants to the U.S. during the 9/11 attacks, before she was born.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But for an undergraduate churning out a last-minute essay, AI will be far less useful.
    Joseph Vukov, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2024
  • However, undergraduates cannot transfer as the deadline for the portal was in April 2023.
    Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • All of the schools chosen were considered highly selective at the time, and none had more than 6,000 undergraduates.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Karjalainen wants to be on the ice at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games with undergraduate and master’s degrees from Vermont.
    Alan Blinder, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Gumbs earned his undergraduate degree in the fall and was taking classes this winter.
    oregonlive, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The school offers a three-year undergraduate program, which welcomes 28 acting students a year, as well as a one-year MA Theatre Lab.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
  • Ganyard had used four years as an undergraduate, but the NCAA’s clock stops when an athlete is in military service.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Up to 40 undergraduates in their junior year of college will follow a few months later.
    oregonlive, 27 July 2023
  • The Celtics were not very good during Wu’s undergraduate years, never advancing out of the first round of the playoffs and finishing 24-58 her senior year.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022
  • Panahi, who finished her undergraduate degree in 2020, hopes to enroll in grad school.
    Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2022
  • More than 60% of Cal State undergraduates have their tuition fully covered by aid that does not include loans.
    Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The care package inclusions that got me through my undergraduate years?
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Did the protesters at UCLA who allegedly blocked the entrance to the main undergraduate library there this spring to all who lacked a yellow wristband learn that tactic in such a class?
    Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 21 May 2024
  • There are fewer undergraduates than there used to be, perhaps because Partch is no longer teaching.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The changes were to ensure more students would receive the Pell Grant, a form of aid for undergraduates with exceptional financial need.
    Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Harris will speak at Ripon College, a private liberal arts college that enrolls about 800 undergraduates.
    Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Tello-Trillo and her husband met as undergraduates studying economics in Peru.
    Kamaron McNair,valentina Duarte, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024

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