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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Enrollment at Florida public universities currently has a 10-percent cap on out-of-state undergraduate enrollment.
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Daniel Wenger, a former editorial staffer at The New Yorker, Medium, and Harper’s, holds a graduate degree in Art from ArtCenter College of Design and an undergraduate degree in English from Harvard University.
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Truitt attended the Air Force Academy to earn her undergraduate degree, but experiencing bouts of airsickness on military planes led her to explore a different path.
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Thousands of Princeton undergraduates took it upon themselves to search the nearby woods, despite official concerns about contaminating potential evidence.
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Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
Daniel Wenger, a former editorial staffer at The New Yorker, Medium, and Harper’s, holds a graduate degree in Art from ArtCenter College of Design and an undergraduate degree in English from Harvard University.
—News Desk, Artforum, 11 Feb. 2026
Truitt attended the Air Force Academy to earn her undergraduate degree, but experiencing bouts of airsickness on military planes led her to explore a different path.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
Thousands of Princeton undergraduates took it upon themselves to search the nearby woods, despite official concerns about contaminating potential evidence.
—Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 7 Feb. 2026
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“Undergraduate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/undergraduate. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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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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