undergraduate
noun
un·der·grad·u·ate
| \ ˌən-dər-ˈgra-jə-wət
, -ˌwāt; -ˈgraj-wət\
, -ˌwāt; -ˈgraj-wət\
Definition of undergraduate
: a student at a college or university who has not received a first and especially a bachelor's degree
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Examples of undergraduate in a Sentence
a group of college undergraduates
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The camp features different women faculty members at Wesleyan and also an array of undergraduates and high school students who help teach the lessons. — Kathleen Mcwilliams, courant.com, "At Wesleyan’s Girls in Science Camp, women are the scientists of the future," 7 Aug. 2019 Marian has an student enrollment of about 2,500 undergraduates. — Chris Tomasson, Twin Cities, "Vikings rookie tight end Brandon Dillon, you’re not at Marian anymore," 25 July 2019 The field of computer science offers plenty of well-paying jobs, but less than 1 percent of the undergraduates enrolled in Florida’s universities earned degrees in that major last year. — Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, "Florida continues computer science push, hoping to train more teachers, enroll more high school students," 17 July 2019 Those numbers are even higher at the local college, where roughly 37% of credit students, the bulk of undergraduates, and 49% of noncredit students also are of Armenian heritage, according to a college staff report. — Andrew J. Campa, latimes.com, "State senator pushes to allow Armenian Genocide recognition at GCC without cost," 28 June 2019 The university's website reports that in the fall 2018 semester, 64% of undergraduates were female and 36% were male. — Sarah Ladd And Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, "How will Bellarmine's leap to Division I impact the university's students?," 19 June 2019 In August 2018, Alex Smith, a biologist at the University of Guelph, was conducting field work with a team of undergraduates in Ontario’s Algonquin Park, a vast stretch of hills, forests and lakes. — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, "Pitcher Plants Have Been Quietly Snacking on Baby Salamanders," 17 June 2019 With that, 57 percent of California undergraduates pay no tuition and an additional 20 percent have part of their costs covered by financial aid. — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, "UC vs. UT: Why have spending and tuition grown so much faster at the University of California?," 16 June 2019 By any conceivable measure, the education that the inmates at the Bard Prison Initiative receive is vastly superior to the standard academic experience of the roughly 20 million undergraduates in the United States. — Jonathan Zimmerman, The New York Review of Books, "Jonathan Zimmerman," 21 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'undergraduate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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undergraduate
noun
English Language Learners Definition of undergraduate
: a student at a college or university who has not yet earned a degree
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