postgraduate

[ pohst-graj-oo-it, -eyt ]

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates:

   a postgraduate seminar.

noun

1. a student who is taking advanced work after graduation, as from a high school or college.

postgraduate

/ pəʊstˈɡrædjʊɪt /

noun

1. a student who has obtained a degree from a university, etc, and is pursuing studies for a more advanced qualification
2. modifier of or relating to such a student or to his studies

Word History and Origins

Origin of postgraduate¹

First recorded in 1855–60; post- + graduate

Example Sentences

Sara Sheridan is a Philadelphia-based postgraduate reporting fellow at the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and a postgraduate research scholar and editor at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism.

From Eater

“The need to combine software implementations and mathematical algorithms presupposes high qualifications at the postgraduate level and above,” one job listing says.

From Washington Post

Pagels’s sister, Laura Menendez, described her brother as funny, smart and passionate about many things — pursuing his postgraduate studies, playing tennis and board games, and traveling by bike.

From Washington Post

While 24 percent of those with less than a bachelor’s degree say they don’t plan to get the vaccine, that number is just 11 percent for those with college degrees and just 8 percent for those with postgraduate degrees.

From Washington Post

Two years later, he was pursuing postgraduate studies at the Institute of Kashmir Studies, University of Kashmir, when he went missing.

From Ozy

During the 1990s, however, he went abroad again to finish his postgraduate studies at Glasgow Caledonian University.

From The Daily Beast

In the Northeast, spring is in the air, and at Ivy League schools, kids are planning their postgraduate futures.

From The Daily Beast

She said she might someday go for her postgraduate degree, but she also wants to start several businesses.

From The Daily Beast

I went to Andover with Belichick in the 1970s (he was there for a postgraduate year while I was kept prisoner for four years).

From The Daily Beast

(This may reflect the decided 58-40 pro-Obama tilt of professors, lawyers, teachers, and others with postgraduate degrees).

From The Daily Beast

Have you participated in any postgraduate work since you graduated from high school?

From Project Gutenberg

What postgraduate work had you been doing that you just mentioned?

From Project Gutenberg

It is hoped that these repeated examinations may lead to the continuation of such habits of bodily care in postgraduate years.

From Project Gutenberg

The postgraduate may play the game using as counters the great and distinctive cheeses of more than fifty countries.

From Project Gutenberg

In fact she was merely taking a postgraduate course in certain studies.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• alum
• graduate