doctoral candidates
Pursuing highest degrees
Doctoral candidates are students pursuing the highest academic degree, typically a PhD.
The term usually distinguishes those who have completed coursework and qualifying exams from newer doctoral students still in earlier stages: Three doctoral candidates defended their dissertations this semester.
The candidate stage means they're actively researching and writing, with degree completion in sight.
- PhDHighest academic credential
- graduate schoolInstitution awarding advanced degrees
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
- dissertation committeePanel supervising doctoral research
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
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- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- Oxford studentsfreshers, finalists, undergraduates, postgraduates, graduate students
- newcomersnewcomers, newcomer, new arrivals, new arrival, newbie
- examineesexaminee, AP students, retaker, test subject, applicant
doctoral candidatesundergraduates
Students seeking bachelor's degrees
first-year students · freshmen · novices · beginners · high school students
doctoral candidatesfull professors
Highest-ranked university instructors
professors · tenured faculty · distinguished professors · department chairs · deans
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