undergraduate
- noun
- /ˌʌndərˈɡrædʒuɪt/
- We were indeed blessed with some of the strongest students in our undergraduate program.
- undergraduate students
- undergraduate program
- undergraduate degree
Six in ten of our undergraduates receive scholarship support.
- Six in ten of our undergraduates receive scholarship support.
- Yeah, I remember when I was an undergraduate having a bet on that.
- And at that time I was studying coaching and psychology as an undergraduate still.
- Can you give advice to people who are undergraduates today?
- This is a course for undergraduates.
- What they didn't count on was how bored undergraduates were at Berkeley.
Examples
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When I was an undergraduate, I actually took your class.
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The two met at nearby Denison College and fell in love as undergraduates.
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We had one session for undergraduate students to give papers.
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This is the last week of my undergraduate college classes.
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the IT was organized by the Committee for Undergraduate Studies.
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That will be when all the undergraduate classes have taken their seats.
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I was an undergraduate at Oxford in my young days.
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Look, it's an undergraduate degree in microbiology.
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Based on our observations, we recommend two modifications to typical undergraduate research programs.
Academic text (2011) -
When I was an undergraduate, I studied biology and chemistry.
Synonyms
A person studying at a college or university to get a first degree
A student at a college or university who has not yet finished a first degree
How Educated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Undergraduate comes from under- meaning 'below' or 'not yet' and graduate meaning 'a step' or 'a degree'. So an undergraduate is a student 'before' they earn their first degree.