masters student
Advanced degree seeker
A masters student is someone pursuing a master's degree—a graduate qualification between a bachelor's and a doctorate.
The program typically takes one to two years and involves advanced coursework, often culminating in a thesis or comprehensive exam.
She's a masters student in public health.
Also written master's student, with the apostrophe.
- grad schoolPost-undergraduate academic institution
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
- advisorOne who gives guidance
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
- thesis committeeFaculty reviewing graduate research
research · research proposal · literature review · seminar · coursework · academia · PhD · degree · stipend · library · deadline · defense · supervisor · lab · cohort · funding · enrollment · campus
- studentsfreshman, sophomore, pupil, junior, senior
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- grad schooldissertation, thesis committee, doctoral program, PhD program, graduate school
- grad studentsdoctoral candidate, postgrad, first year, second year, third year
- scientistsbiologist, Einstein, anthropologist, Darwin, chemist
masters studentundergraduate
Degree-seeking college student
freshman · doctoral candidate · high school student · kindergartener · postdoc
masters studentprofessor
Senior university teacher
tenured professor · faculty member · instructor · department chair · dean
master, masters, student, students, mastery, masterful, masterfully, masterly, mastered