higher education

noun

: education beyond the secondary level

especially : education provided by a college or university

Examples of higher education in a Sentence

Students and their parents worry about the rising cost of higher education.

Recent Examples on the Web

Her Dolores Huerta Foundation supported endeavors as diverse as a performing arts camp for children, higher education mentoring for high school students and food distribution to victims of floods that inundated the Central Valley in 2023. — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Welch Suggs, one of the study’s authors and an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at Georgia, noted the study was done over a period of growth in higher education. — ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026

In 2021, Aune co-sponsored a bill to establish the Missouri Cybersecurity Commission to analyze state agencies, schools and higher education institutions to find vulnerabilities in Missouri cybersecurity. — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2026

The government also promised 15,000 additional places in higher education, introduced across 2027 and 2028, and increases in student grants linked to inflation from the start of the 2027 academic year. — Thomas Adamson, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1834, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for higher education

• acclimatisation
• acclimatization
• acidification
• actualization
• annualization
• autocorrelation
• autoregulation
• beatification
• beneficiation
• biodegradation
• biotransformation
• bureaucratization

Kids Definition

higher education

noun

: education provided by a college or university