undergraduate
noun
un·der·grad·u·ate
ˌən-dər-ˈgra-jə-wət 
-ˌwāt;
-ˈgraj-wət
: a student at a college or university who has not received a first and especially a bachelor's degree
undergraduate
adjective
Examples of undergraduate in a Sentence
a group of college undergraduates
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Roughly 1,200 Jewish undergraduates — about 14% of the student body — and 1,000 Jewish graduate students attend Northwestern, according to Hillel International, a Jewish campus organization.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2024
By contrast, Asians and whites make up more than 60% of the undergraduate student body at UCLA, where 9% of undergraduates and 17% of graduate students hail from other nations.
—Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
Stanford University, for example, chose Jonathan Levin as its next president, turning to someone who was an undergraduate there in the 1990s and joined the faculty in 2000.
—Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 22 May 2024
The lawsuit, brought by two graduate students and an undergraduate, aims to be a class action suit for Jewish students who didn’t participate in the encampment, according to the filing.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2024
By contrast, Asians and whites make up more than 60% of the undergraduate student body at UCLA, where 9% of undergraduates and 17% of graduate students hail from other nations.
—Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
Stanford University, for example, chose Jonathan Levin as its next president, turning to someone who was an undergraduate there in the 1990s and joined the faculty in 2000.
—Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 22 May 2024
The lawsuit, brought by two graduate students and an undergraduate, aims to be a class action suit for Jewish students who didn’t participate in the encampment, according to the filing.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
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undergraduate
noun
un·der·grad·u·ate
ˌən-dər-ˈgraj-(ə-)wət
-ə-ˌwāt
: a student at a college or university who has not yet received a degree
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