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postgraduate

[pohst-graj-oo-it, -eyt] / poʊstˈgrædʒ u ɪt, -ˌeɪt /
NOUN
alumnus
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NOUN
alumna
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Roehampton is offering esports scholarships to undergraduate and postgraduate students who show that they can balance academic progress and video-gaming excellence.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

Storm Colloms, a postgraduate researcher at the Institute for Gravitational Research, said:

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 2026

Students and graduates in England have different loan plans depending on when and what they studied, and the cap will only apply to Plan 2 loans and Plan 3 postgraduate loans from September.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

After receiving a postgraduate diploma in marketing at the Australian Graduate School of Management, she held senior positions at Australian telecom companies including Telstra.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

“Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij. How can someone pursuing a postgraduate degree in American literature display such abominable English-language skills?”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Before becoming a full-time politician, Mr David lectured at Cardiff Metropolitan University, teaching human resource management to undergraduates and postgraduates.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2025

UNLV, less than two miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, has an enrollment of about 25,000 undergraduates and 8,000 postgraduates and doctoral candidates.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2023

CAS reduced the unidentified team leader’s funding and suspended him from supervising postgraduates for a year, according to the news report.

From Science Magazine May 24, 2023

He told me that many of his clients are postgraduates worried about their money situation, and a large debt balance is “a dark cloud that always follows you.”

From Slate Feb. 26, 2023

But the story of what the politicians, and those postgraduates of politics, the statesmen, have done for and against the fishermen of New England, is not that which I have to tell.

From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot




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