undergraduate

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As an undergraduate at Harvard, he majored in history and dreamed of becoming a professor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Despite having an undergraduate and a master's degree, Sophie said she had applied for 300 jobs in the past year with just one interview and no success.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

The study's co-authors included postdoctoral researchers Jordan Kueneman and Katherine Odanaka, undergraduate students Steve Hoge '24 and Cassidy Dobler '26, and lab technician Rachel Fordyce.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

She got her master of fine arts degree in art from ArtCenter College of Design’s graduate art program, where she works as the undergraduate and graduate art departments’ chair and a longtime graduate art professor.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

While I was desultorily attending graduate school, I met in the coffee shop one day a Miss Myma Minkoff, a young undergraduate, a loud, offensive maiden from the Bronx.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole