matriculant
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- noun
- /məˈtrɪkjʊlənt/
- Formal
:
matriculado
- Since most two-year colleges do not confer baccalaureate degrees, it appears obvious that four-year institutions would inherently have more matriculants earning the four-year degree.
- four-year matriculants
- matriculants at four-year
- college matriculants
Examples
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As a new matriculant, she eagerly attended orientation to learn about her classes.
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Matriculants at two-year colleges are more likely to be male and non-White, and are less likely to complete an academic high school curriculum or participate as leaders in a high school extracurricular activity than matriculants at four-year institutions.
Academic text (2003) -
A matriculant's first role at the University is and must be as a student.
Fiction book (1997) -
The large number of community college matriculants and the diversity in their academic abilities and cultural characteristics also challenge community colleges' goals of equal access for all.
Academic text (1995) -
In the spring of 1868, sixty-eight students gathered to become the first matriculants of the Illinois Industrial University.
Academic text (2004) -
Two-year and four-year college matriculants differ on several variables.
Academic text (2003) -
The most notable difference by institutional type is socioeconomic status, which is much higher for four-year college matriculants than for their two-year counterparts.
Academic text (2003) -
Matriculants at two-year colleges are more likely to be male and non-White, and are less likely to complete an academic high school curriculum or participate as leaders in a high school extracurricular activity than matriculants at four-year institutions.
Academic text (2003) -
That is, should we evaluate the transfer performance of community colleges largely upon what a student wishes, regardless of how realistic those wishes may be (from the standpoint of how realistic an individual's chances are and from the standpoint of the resources a community college has to raise the chances of success for the very underprepared matriculant)?
Academic text (2009) -
The university welcomed over a hundred matriculants at its annual induction ceremony.
Synonyms
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A person who studies at a school or university
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A person studying at a college or university to get a first degree
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A person who studies at a university to get a degree
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A person who is registered in a class, course, or program
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A person who is or was a student at a college
How Registered
Surface Forms
Morphology
matriculant = matriculate (semi-transparent) = matricul + ant
Formed regularly from the verb 'matriculate' with the agentive suffix '-ant', but the base verb and root are relatively rare and Latin-derived, so the relation may not be fully obvious to average learners.
Etymology
Matriculant comes from the Latin matricula, which means 'register' or 'little list'. So a matriculant is someone put on the official list — a student who has been enrolled at a college or university.