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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
postgraduate
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a higher/postgraduate degree (=one that you take after a first degree)
▪ He was offered a grant for a postgraduate degree.
a postgraduate courseBritish English (= one you do after your first degree course)
a postgraduate studentBritish English, a graduate student American English (= one who has already done a first degree)
▪ There is a separate university prospectus for postgraduate students.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
course
▪ The most successful postgraduate course in terms of both applicants and admissions was the MPhil in Publishing Studies.
student
▪ All Henley postgraduate students are registered at Brunel University which also confers the degree.
▪ The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra.
▪ The complex, consisting of 37 houses each accommodating five students, provides high quality accommodation for 185 postgraduate students.
▪ Undergraduate and postgraduate student numbers remain steady.
▪ The series encourages contributions from postgraduate students as well as established researchers.
study
▪ I want to undertake the postgraduate study in Britain.
▪ For those who go on to read postgraduate studies, there is the further problem of publishing any research findings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He has three postgraduates helping him with his research.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Research students are admitted initially as supervised postgraduates and take a course of study tailored to their individual needs and experience.
▪ Some 450 students, mainly postgraduates, were overseas students attracted from non-EC countries.
▪ The Foundation has been delighted to be able to sow the seeds of international cooperation by supporting postgraduates.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
course
▪ Middlesex University currently offers such a postgraduate course.
▪ Other applicants should also make enquiries early in the year in which they propose to commence a postgraduate course. 1.
▪ The point also holds for those postgraduate courses which are hardly more than programmes of professional training.
▪ In addition to the degree and diploma courses described below, there is a wide range of professional and postgraduate courses.
▪ Some go on to study for a higher degree, and some take postgraduate courses in management or production engineering.
▪ There is open access to undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well as reciprocal facilities in Science and Social Science departments.
▪ This can require attendance at postgraduate courses, and perhaps some Masters degree coursework in the same field.
▪ In addition to the foundation course a four-year postgraduate course will begin in 1993.
degree
▪ Forms one of the postgraduate degree streams in Ecology and Resource Management described in general on this page.
▪ But his woods look as beautiful as any tended by a forester with a postgraduate degree from Yale.
▪ Study for the dissertation for postgraduate degrees is normally undertaken during the summer vacation.
▪ There are also some interesting new postgraduate degrees.
▪ It confers a wide range of research-based and taught postgraduate degrees and diplomas.
level
▪ For these students, this was manifested by a decision not to continue with physics at postgraduate level.
▪ His love of international law he communicated to his students both at an undergraduate and a postgraduate level.
▪ It is still the best foundation at postgraduate level.
▪ Scholarships A number of scholarships are available at entrance, undergraduate and postgraduate level.
▪ At postgraduate level the Bucher and Fraser Scholarships provide opportunities for further research or for advanced studies in composition or performance.
▪ It is generally assumed that at postgraduate level and above users can look after themselves.
▪ This is reflected in the range of courses offered by the Faculty of Business and Management, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
▪ This Centre offers a programme of studies both at the undergraduate and intermediate postgraduate levels.
research
▪ Recent postgraduate research has been conducted in all of these areas and elsewhere.
▪ Some graduates go on to take further qualifications, for example in housing or social work, or into postgraduate research.
▪ Further details are available in the departmental postgraduate research brochure.
student
▪ The point appears to come through even more strongly in the role of the postgraduate student, particularly the research student.
▪ There are approximately 380 postgraduate students, including both students taking postgraduate taught courses and those studying for research degrees.
▪ The department runs a research seminar, with guest speakers and opportunities for postgraduate students to present their work.
▪ Linton lists as his perceived audience undergraduates studying microbiology, together with both undergraduate and postgraduate students of medicine and veterinary science.
▪ Undergraduate and postgraduate students will also find papers worth reading.
▪ Currently there are approximately 230 postgraduate students registered in the Faculty.
▪ The department is accordingly a highly suitable base for postgraduate students seeking to pursue research or advanced study in comparative law.
▪ The international and interdisciplinary background of the department's postgraduate students provides the basis of a lively community.
study
▪ Although organised on a departmental basis, postgraduate study within the Faculty is not confined to disciplinary boundaries.
▪ They provide a thorough preparation for postgraduate study programmes and are of 3, 6, 9 and 13 weeks' duration.
▪ Funding a course is one of the most challenging things people face when considering postgraduate study.
▪ Edinburgh is a capital city for postgraduate study.
▪ Increasingly, the approach to postgraduate study is becoming modular.
▪ Applicants for postgraduate study should have a thorough grounding in economics, preferably at the Master's level.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
postgraduate research
postgraduate work at the Sorbonne
▪ Most of the people in the department hold postgraduate degrees.
▪ She got a degree in history last year, and now she's doing a postgraduate course.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although organised on a departmental basis, postgraduate study within the Faculty is not confined to disciplinary boundaries.
▪ But his woods look as beautiful as any tended by a forester with a postgraduate degree from Yale.
▪ For these students, this was manifested by a decision not to continue with physics at postgraduate level.
▪ Funding a course is one of the most challenging things people face when considering postgraduate study.
▪ Quite a few have gone on to postgraduate teacher training to teach in the secondary sector.
▪ Study for the dissertation for postgraduate degrees is normally undertaken during the summer vacation.
▪ This booklet provides an introduction to the postgraduate programme.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Postgraduate

Postgraduate \Post*grad"u*ate\, a. [Pref. post- + graduate.] Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate. -- n. A student who pursues such studies.

Note: Most careful writers consider the word graduate to be the proper word to use in this sense.

Wiktionary
postgraduate

a. Of studies which take place after having successfully completed a degree course. n. (context US Australia New Zealand English) A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course.

WordNet
postgraduate
  1. adj. of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses" [syn: graduate(a)]

  2. n. a student who continues studies after graduation [syn: graduate student, grad student]

Usage examples of "postgraduate".

Hal’s memories told him she was resident at the University of Cerulea, doing postgraduate research in psychohistory.

Barty, thirteen years old but listening to books at a postgraduate college level, had no doubt studied leukemia while they were awaiting the test results, to prepare himself to fully understand the diagnosis on first receiving it.

In Virginia, each of the four district offices has forensic pathologists who are medical doctors trained in pathology and the subspecialty of forensic pathology, training that involves ten years of postgraduate edu­.

In Virginia, each of the four district offices has forensic pathologists who are medical doctors trained in pathology and the subspecialty of forensic pathology, training that involves ten years of postgraduate education, not counting three additional years if the forensic pathologist also wants a law degree.

Martian geology, with Sax grilling her for the most part, learning from her as from a professor, but always able to contribute from the standpoint of a theoretical physicist, one of the leading lights a decade or two before, in his postgraduate years.

For a long time I had regarded him as someone on a postgraduate fling, someone doing his stint of service to the Crown before leaving to start his real career, someone who would eventually wind up with a dozen undemanding directorships and a Rolls-Royce with a personalized licence plate.

She was a postgraduate in neurodynamic physiology from Harvard and had come to Pittsburgh for a job interview.

Flapper was now doing postgraduate work at Thomaston State Prison, doing doctoral work in laundry maintenance and advanced spoon sharpening.