POSTGRADUATE Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

postgraduate 1 of 2

adjective

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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postgraduate

2 of 2

noun

as in undergraduate

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nonstudent

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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

By 2013, the program had paid for more than 4,300 fellows from 22 developing countries to earn graduate or postgraduate degrees, many of whom were educated in the global South. —

Darren Walker, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018 And this year, that desperation was exacerbated by cheating scandals that disrupted India’s extremely competitive undergraduate and postgraduate entrance exams. —

Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for postgraduate

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