: of, relating to, or engaged in formal studies after graduation : graduate
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After college, she spent her first postgraduate year studying abroad.
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Berrios already has earned $18,000 toward postgraduate studies (no matter how far in the future) by being one of 13 semifinalists.
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Those with postgraduate degrees were twice as likely to be drawing up exit plans as those with only a secondary-school education.
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Hill’s other postgraduate player is Seth Maxwell, a 7-foot center from Northeastern Pennsylvania’s Abington Heights.
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Similarly, 47 percent of Americans without a college degree know Puerto Ricans are Americans, compared with 72 percent of those with a bachelor’s degree and 66 percent of those with a postgraduate education.
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Now, as a postgraduate student at the University of Melbourne, wāni is cognizant of how racial and economic disparities in opportunity and employment play roles in shaping the dynamics within black and brown communities in New Zealand.
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Meanwhile, Alia Wong explored Chicago's new requirement that high-school seniors provide evidence of a postgraduate plan to get their diplomas.
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In addition, this is the first year U.S. News is offering postgraduate salary information on 1,000 schools.
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Those most likely to call higher education a good investment include those with a college degree (61 percent) or a postgraduate degree (66 percent), high income earners (60 percent), and non-whites.
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First Known Use of postgraduate
1858
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: a student continuing formal education after graduation from high school or college
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Becoming a doctor takes a four-year undergraduate degree, a four-year postgraduate degree, and then a multi-year medical residency.
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The Kennedy Memorial Trust, established by the British government, awards scholarships for British postgraduates attending either Harvard or M.I.T.
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In China, 1,086 North Korean postgraduates studied in 2015, the last year for which official data are available, according to a Chinese Ministry of Education publication, up from 354 in 2009.
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Around the same time in Illinois, a young postgraduate sociology student at the University of Chicago named Paul Campisi saw growing unease in the Italian-American community.
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Around the same time in Illinois, a young postgraduate sociology student at the University of Chicago named Paul Campisi saw growing unease in the Italian-American community.
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Murray Hill, long known as a go-to rental area for postgraduates, is going through some growing pains.
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First Known Use of postgraduate
1877
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POSTGRADUATE Defined for English Language Learners
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: of or relating to studies done after earning a bachelor's degree or other degree
postgraduate
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: a student who continues to study for an advanced degree after earning a bachelor's degree or other first degree : a graduate student
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