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a person enrolled in a college or university who has not yet earned a degree
a group of college undergraduates
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Recent Examples of undergraduates
The move — which was not originally on the agenda for the State University System’s Board of Governors — will effectively relegate introductory sociology to an elective starting this fall, removing it from the core curriculum taken by most undergraduates.
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Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
Harvard waives tuition entirely for undergraduates whose families earn $200,000 or less annually.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
If the weather was nice, undergraduates would be sunning themselves, like erotic statuary, on the library steps.
—Caleb Crain, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
As a prerequisite, undergraduates also make a commitment to teach at an at-risk school in the state for five years.
—Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
Currently, the board limits annual tuition hikes for resident undergraduates to an amount that does not exceed the average of the three most recent Higher Education Price Index values, a measure of inflation.
—Marissa Payne, Des Moines Register, 13 Mar. 2026
At Vanderbilt’s home campus in Tennessee, the student body of 13,670 includes 54% undergraduates, 30% professional students (such as those studying medicine and law) and 16% graduate students.
—Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2026
It was pushed by Associated Students, which represents the school’s 35,442 undergraduates — the largest number of undergrads in the University of California system.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
The small school gained a national reputation for preparing Black undergraduates for medical professions and for producing graduates in fields such as biology, chemistry, physics and pharmacy.
—ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
Harvard waives tuition entirely for undergraduates whose families earn $200,000 or less annually.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
If the weather was nice, undergraduates would be sunning themselves, like erotic statuary, on the library steps.
—Caleb Crain, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
As a prerequisite, undergraduates also make a commitment to teach at an at-risk school in the state for five years.
—Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
Currently, the board limits annual tuition hikes for resident undergraduates to an amount that does not exceed the average of the three most recent Higher Education Price Index values, a measure of inflation.
—Marissa Payne, Des Moines Register, 13 Mar. 2026
At Vanderbilt’s home campus in Tennessee, the student body of 13,670 includes 54% undergraduates, 30% professional students (such as those studying medicine and law) and 16% graduate students.
—Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2026
It was pushed by Associated Students, which represents the school’s 35,442 undergraduates — the largest number of undergrads in the University of California system.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
The small school gained a national reputation for preparing Black undergraduates for medical professions and for producing graduates in fields such as biology, chemistry, physics and pharmacy.
—ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undergraduates
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All other students, including those currently in their senior years of high school, are no longer eligible for the program, according to the Colorado Department of Education.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
6 Apr. 2026
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All Stanford students are ambitious, but many of the most enterprising among them drop out.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Akçam is widely recognized as one of the first Turkish scholars to write extensively on the Ottoman-Turkish Genocide of the Armenians in the early 20th century.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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As Richard Reeves and other scholars of modern masculinity have made clear, men are not doing well.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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