graduate
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Burgwald is a West Point graduate who has received multiple attorney general’s awards.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Reductions in federal subsidies have impelled universities to cut Ph.D. admissions in programs that enroll few undergraduates, meaning there’s less demand for graduate student labor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
"The value in this project is practically unquantifiable," said Berkeley archaeology graduate student Leah Packard-Grams, who consulted on the project as a papyrologist.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
He pointed to the example of computer science, where a graduate working in quantitative finance would likely earn a higher salary than the average software developer.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Von Tschermak had been a graduate student at Halle and in Ghent, where, working on pea hybrids, he had also observed hereditary traits moving independently and discretely, like particles, across generations of hybrids.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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“An uptick in the unemployment rate for workers with doctorate degrees may be tied to an oversupply of PhD graduates and a limited number of tenure-track professorships within institutions of higher education,” the report noted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
When these graduates landed work, they were also likely getting paid less compared to peers who had majors that were less vulnerable to AI’s advance in the workplace.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
One told me they would rather the focus had been wooing younger voters by tackling the amount graduates repay in student loans, an old bruise for the Lib Dems.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The earnings-by-major metric replaced previous criteria that looked at typical federal loan debt of graduates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Exactly zero percent of those 1940 college graduates became engineers.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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When I graduated from college, I aspired to be a war correspondent and report on the humanitarian crises shaping our time.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
I also have two older children who graduated in 2024 and 2026, as well as a fifth-grader, so I have some comparison points Ms. Hannah-Jones lacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Several Montana State University students contributed to the research, including some who have since graduated.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Born in Miami, Eckhart graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor of science degree in telecommunications-news, according to her biography.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
He and Craig graduated from Princeton at the end of my sophomore year.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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They experienced an initial full-quarter earnings decline of 13% that would be comparable in scale “with graduating into a large recession,” the authors wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
As Radcliff embarks on his investing journey, he has a goal of graduating debt-free with $250,000 in assets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Every graduating senior in our high schools was admitted to a two- or four-year college.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
After graduating two years ago, she thought the playing field would even out.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
After graduating from high school, Oshiro received his draft notice.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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