A postgraduate or a postgraduate student is a student with a first degree from a university who is studying or doing research at a more advanced level.
[British]regional note: in AM, use graduate student
2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Postgraduate study or research is done by a student who has a first degree and is studying or doing research at a more advancedlevel.
[British]
...postgraduate courses.
Dr Hoffman did his postgraduate work at Leicester University.
regional note: in AM, use graduate
postgraduate in British English
(pəʊstˈɡrædjʊɪt), postgrad or post-grad (ˌpəʊstˈɡræd)
noun
1.
a student who has obtained a degree from a university, etc, and is pursuing studies for a more advanced qualification
2. (modifier)
of or relating to such a student or to his or her studies
Also (US and Canadian): graduate
postgraduate in American English
(ˌpoʊstˈgrædʒuɪt)
US
adjective
1.
of or taking a course of study after graduation, esp. after receipt of the bachelor's degree
see also graduate (sense 10)
2.
designating or of additional study, training, etc. undertaken after receipt of a doctorate
noun
3.
a student taking such a course
Examples of 'postgraduate' in a sentence
postgraduate
She has spent the last two years doing pure maths research in Cambridge and before that she was a maths postgraduate at Lisbon University.
Robert Wilson THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (2002)
Rufus, who was actually in the middle of a postgraduate course at Yale, tended to look where he was going.
Daisy Waugh TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS (2002)
At worst that could mean ejection from the postgraduate social work course he'd sweated blood to get on to.
Moore, Margaret FORESTS OF THE NIGHT (2002)
They could decide who got the promotion, the apartment, the new car, or the postgraduate course abroad.
José Latour OUTCAST (2002)
In other languages
postgraduate
British English: postgraduate /pəʊstˈɡrædjʊɪt/ NOUN
A postgraduate is a student with a first degree from a university who is studying or doing research at a more advanced level.
American English: graduate student
Arabic: طَالِبُ دِراسات عُلْيَا
Brazilian Portuguese: pós-graduado
Chinese: 研究生
Croatian: postdiplomac
Czech: postgraduální student
Danish: overbygningsstuderende
Dutch: postdoctoraal
European Spanish: posgraduado
Finnish: jatko-opiskelija yliopistossa
French: étudiant en troisième cycle
German: Postgraduierter
Greek: μεταπτυχιακός φοιτητής
Italian: studente che segue un corso post-laurea
Japanese: 大学院生
Korean: 대학원생
Norwegian: doktorgradsstudent
Polish: absolwent
European Portuguese: pós-graduado
Romanian: absolvent
Russian: аспирант
Latin American Spanish: posgraduado
Swedish: forskarstuderande
Thai: นักศึกษาที่เรียนต่อจากปริญญาตรี
Turkish: doktora
Ukrainian: аспірант
Vietnamese: sinh viên sau đại học
British English: postgraduate ADJECTIVE
Postgraduate study or research is done by a student who has a first degree and is studying or doing research at a more advanced level.