graduate schools
Post-bachelor's institutions
Graduate schools are divisions of universities that offer advanced academic programs beyond the undergraduate level, awarding master's degrees and doctorates.
Admission typically requires a bachelor's degree, and programs emphasize specialized study, research, and professional training in fields like law, medicine, business, and the sciences.
She's applying to graduate schools for her PhD in chemistry.
The term is primarily American; British usage favors postgraduate programs or simply the university department.
- universitiesInstitutions granting advanced degrees
- collegesHigher learning institutions
- ivory towerSheltered intellectual enclave
- doctorateHighest academic credential awarded
- public universitiesGovernment-funded higher education institutions
doctoral programs · grad student · comprehensive exams · thesis · dissertation · masters · academic advisors · office hours · candidacy · qualifying exams · stipend · research centers · ABD · GRE · application fee · letter of recommendation · academia · prospectus
- Israeli Academialaw schools, medical schools, business schools, research institutes, research centers
- educationeducation, schools, teachers, students, learning
- higher educationuniversity, college, degree, diploma, professor
- OxbridgeOxford, Oxbridge, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Exeter
- Iranian Universities
- academiaprofessors, universities, biology department, professor, thesis statement
graduate schoolsundergraduate programs
Studies toward first degree
community colleges · undergraduate education · primary schools · elementary schools · kindergarten
graduate schoolsself-study
Learning independently, without guidance
autodidacticism · on-the-job training · apprenticeships · trade schools · vocational training
graduate schoolsindustry
Economic production sector
professional life · real world · employment · starting a family
school, schooling, graduate, schoolgirl, scholarship, graduation, schoolboy, graduated, schoolwork