Postgraduate
noun
A person who is studying a subject after they have already completed a degree.
She was a postgraduate in the School of Business.
Often appears as...
- postgraduate student
- postgraduate studies
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Academic
adjective
Related to studies that are done after a first degree has been completed.
He decided to pursue a postgraduate degree in Psychology.
Often appears as...
- postgraduate level
- postgraduate study
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Academic
noun
A person who is studying a subject after they have already completed a degree.
She was a postgraduate in the School of Business.
Often appears as...
- postgraduate student
- postgraduate studies
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Related to studies that are done after a first degree has been completed.
He decided to pursue a postgraduate degree in Psychology.
Often appears as...
- postgraduate level
- postgraduate study
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Bachelor's
Postgraduate refers to education after a bachelor's degree, such as masters or doctorate programs.
After completing his Bachelor's, he enrolled as a postgraduate at the university.
Pro Tip 2/3Advanced Study
Postgraduate work involves more advanced, specialized study and research in a particular field.
Her postgraduate studies focused on marine biology.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Commitment
Becoming a postgraduate often requires a significant time commitment and self-discipline.
He's a full-time postgraduate, working on his thesis this year.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Bachelor's
Postgraduate refers to education after a bachelor's degree, such as masters or doctorate programs.
After completing his Bachelor's, he enrolled as a postgraduate at the university.
Pro Tip 2/3Advanced Study
Postgraduate work involves more advanced, specialized study and research in a particular field.
Her postgraduate studies focused on marine biology.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Commitment
Becoming a postgraduate often requires a significant time commitment and self-discipline.
He's a full-time postgraduate, working on his thesis this year.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Bachelor's
Postgraduate refers to education after a bachelor's degree, such as masters or doctorate programs.
After completing his Bachelor's, he enrolled as a postgraduate at the university.
Pro Tip 2/3Advanced Study
Postgraduate work involves more advanced, specialized study and research in a particular field.
Her postgraduate studies focused on marine biology.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Commitment
Becoming a postgraduate often requires a significant time commitment and self-discipline.
He's a full-time postgraduate, working on his thesis this year.
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now imagine being a freshman having a huge football postgraduate who you've never talked to before in your life publicly make fun of you in passing and then laugh to all of his friends about you and this wasn't an isolated incident
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have that in common so what else do we have in common first of all we're all incredibly good-looking graduated high school college postgraduate degrees travel to interesting places didn't have kids in your early teens financially
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Yang Lan: The generation...
to pursue my postgraduate studies, and then started my own media company, which was unthought of during the years that I started my career. So we do a lot of things. I've interviewed more than a thousand people in the past.
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Bullying must end now PIPE...
now imagine being a freshman having a huge football postgraduate who you've never talked to before in your life publicly make fun of you in passing and then laugh to all of his friends about you and this wasn't an isolated incident
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Greening the ghetto -...
have that in common so what else do we have in common first of all we're all incredibly good-looking graduated high school college postgraduate degrees travel to interesting places didn't have kids in your early teens financially
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Yang Lan: The generation...
to pursue my postgraduate studies, and then started my own media company, which was unthought of during the years that I started my career. So we do a lot of things. I've interviewed more than a thousand people in the past.
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Sasheer Zamata
American Actress
I was actually going to work at Tokyo Disney. I thought, 'I'll work in the family!' That was my postgraduate plan. I didn't really have any plans lined up, but I was going to audition for this big band jazz show that was at Tokyo Disney. I think the concert was, like, for a year or something, and I thought, 'Yeah, that's what I'll do!
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Dawn Foster
British Journalist
Social mobility has always been a slippery term, with nebulous markers of success: how many state school children have to achieve postgraduate degrees, or fill higher professional jobs, before society is deemed to have achieved the requisite degree of mobility to consider prejudice or injustice a thing of the past?
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Chesley Sullenberger
American Aviator
After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.
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Yang Lan
Chinese Journalist
In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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Peter Agre
American Scientist
My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.
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Thomas Sowell
American Economist
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.
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Joe Greene
American Athlete
I came to the Steelers after four years of high school and four years of college, and now I look on my stay here as 13 years of postgraduate work; I think I'm ready for the world.
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Kathleen Battle
American Actress
New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
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Sasheer Zamata
American Actress
I was actually going to work at Tokyo Disney. I thought, 'I'll work in the family!' That was my postgraduate plan. I didn't really have any plans lined up, but I was going to audition for this big band jazz show that was at Tokyo Disney. I think the concert was, like, for a year or something, and I thought, 'Yeah, that's what I'll do!
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Dawn Foster
British Journalist
Social mobility has always been a slippery term, with nebulous markers of success: how many state school children have to achieve postgraduate degrees, or fill higher professional jobs, before society is deemed to have achieved the requisite degree of mobility to consider prejudice or injustice a thing of the past?
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Chesley Sullenberger
American Aviator
After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.
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Yang Lan
Chinese Journalist
In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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Peter Agre
American Scientist
My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.
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Thomas Sowell
American Economist
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.
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Joe Greene
American Athlete
I came to the Steelers after four years of high school and four years of college, and now I look on my stay here as 13 years of postgraduate work; I think I'm ready for the world.
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Kathleen Battle
American Actress
New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
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