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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In 1986, Anastasio and Fishman both enrolled at Goddard, and McConnell received a hundred-dollar finder’s fee from the school—at the time, the college had just thirty-three undergraduates.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Eberly Barnes, who currently manages a writing program for undergraduates at UC San Diego, will be the guide and instructor.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
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Yemane’s academic ambitions led him to study architecture, earning both undergraduate and master’s degrees.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Louisiana is the only state in the nation where the average student has fully recovered any academic losses sustained during the pandemic.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Just imagine how positive so many of Harvard’s alumni, partners, faculty, and current students must feel due to the position taken by the University.—
Dan Pontefract,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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School of Style The same could perhaps now be said for Zendaya, who arrived at the Los Angeles headquarters of Law Roach’s School of Style–an online styling course that appointed the image architect as its professor in late 2024–to serve as an instructional aid for students.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Postgraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postgraduate. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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