graduate students
Pursuing advanced degrees
Graduate students are people pursuing advanced degrees beyond the bachelor's level—typically master's or doctoral programs.
The term distinguishes them from undergraduates.
Graduate students often teach introductory courses, conduct research, and occupy an ambiguous position between student and professional: The lab employs three graduate students.
Also called grad students.
- candidacyPursuit of office
- researchersThose who study systematically
- doctoralOf advanced academic study
- stipendFixed regular payment
- postgraduatesDegree holders continuing education
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- studentsstudent, freshman, sophomore, pupil, junior
- academiaprofessors, universities, biology department, professor, thesis statement
- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
- campus populationfreshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, undergraduates
- economics departmentprofessors, faculty, department head, chair, PhD candidates
- OxbridgeOxford, Oxbridge, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Exeter
graduate studentsundergraduates
Students seeking bachelor's degrees
underclassmen · freshmen · college freshmen · first-year students · sophomores
graduate studentsprofessors
Highest-ranking university instructors
faculty · department chairs · deans · full professors · academic advisors
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