college grad
Recent diploma recipient
A college grad is someone who has completed a degree at a college or university.
The term is casual shorthand for college graduate, common in job listings and everyday speech: We're looking for recent college grads, As a college grad, she expected better job prospects.
The phrase often implies a four-year bachelor's degree rather than an associate's.
- diplomaAcademic completion document
- alumniFormer school members
- alma materOne's former institution
- commencementAct of starting
- tasselOrnamental hanging cluster
cap · gown · cap and gown · degree · transcript · student loans · student debt · entry-level · first job · resume · job hunt · job search · major · thesis · dorm · campus · freshman · senior
- studentsstudent, freshman, university students, sophomore, pupil
- Graduatesalumni, alumna, alumnus, PhD holder, postgrads
- twentiestwenties, young adult, early adulthood, emerging adulthood, self-discovery
college gradself-made man
One who succeeds independently
school of hard knocks · blue-collar worker · unskilled laborer · tradesman · autodidact
college, grad, colleges, collegiate, collegian, collegians, grads, grade, grades