- a person who has a university degree
- job prospects for graduates
- a university/college graduate
- a recent graduate from Coventry University
- an Oxford/a Yale graduate
- graduate of something a graduate of Oxford/Yale
- engineering/science graduates
- graduate in something a graduate in history
- a graduate student
- (North American English) graduate programs/degrees/studies
Extra ExamplesTopics Educationb1- She has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
- The company places great importance on graduate recruitment and training.
- a graduate in sociology
- job opportunities for university graduates
- graduate courses
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- business-school
- law-school
- college
- …
- course
- degree
- program
- …
- graduate in
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- (North American English) a person who has completed their school studies
- a high school graduate
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- business-school
- law-school
- college
- …
- course
- degree
- program
- …
- graduate in
Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin graduat- ‘graduated’, from graduare ‘take a degree’, from Latin gradus ‘degree, step’.
More About studentsstudents
See graduate in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee graduate in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English- A student is a person who is studying at a school, college, university, etc.
- An undergraduate is a student who is studying for their first degree at a university or college.
- In British English, a graduate is a person who has completed a first degree at a university or college. In North American English graduate is usually used with another noun and can also apply to a person who has finished high school:
- a high school graduate
- a graduate student.
- A postgraduate is a person who has finished a first degree and is doing advanced study or research. This is the usual term in British English, but it is formal in North American English and graduate student is usually used instead.
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