postsecondary

adjective

post·​sec·​ond·​ary ˌpōst-ˈse-kən-ˌder-ē 

: of, relating to, or being education following secondary school

postsecondary education

The country has a rich infrastructure of 4,500 public and private postsecondary institutions with a high regard for academic freedom.

—Lee Lawrence

Examples of postsecondary in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

These efforts helped to grow the number of Americans with a postsecondary degree from well under one percent in 1850 to nearly half the population today. — Michael Fitts, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

States like Georgia and Oregon have shown what aligned policy can accomplish, linking child care access to postsecondary persistence and reforming subsidy programs to recognize that school and work are not mutually exclusive. — Enyi Okebugwu, Fortune, 28 June 2026

SkillsUSA develops students’ technical, workplace and leadership skills to prepare them for careers and postsecondary education. — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 28 June 2026

Santarvis Brown, an administrator with South Florida experience and a primarily postsecondary background, did not verify three years of public school classroom experience or seven years of public school administrative experience. — Austin Horn june 25, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for postsecondary

• accretionary
• apothecary
• bicentenary
• certiorari
• concessionary
• concretionary
• confectionary
• confectionery
• constabulary
• contemporary
• deflationary
• depositary