as in students
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
More than a third of UC undergraduates are low-income students.
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Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
2 July 2026
Parent borrowing for their undergraduates will also be restricted to $20,000 per student per year, with a lifetime limit of $65,000.
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Jeffrey Selingo,
Time,
2 July 2026
Some institutions limit the program to entering students, where the reading involves their first collegiate experience of academic socialization, but at other institutions, all undergraduates are involved.
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Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Even at Yale, the humanities were hemorrhaging undergraduates.
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Ann Manov,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
The institute, anchored in UC Berkeley’s Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, plans to reach 500 students a year via an eventual dozen or more course offerings open to undergraduates across majors.
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Jaweed Kaleem,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
As undergraduates, Loyola students take their learning on the road.
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Mike Klingaman,
Baltimore Sun,
28 June 2026
Truell and his future partners — Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger — were all undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
Goldman Sachs’ Pierfrancesco Mei believes this is evidence that undergraduates are changing their behavior to avoid career paths most easily destroyed by AI.
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Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
17 June 2026
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
2 July 2026
Parent borrowing for their undergraduates will also be restricted to $20,000 per student per year, with a lifetime limit of $65,000.
—
Jeffrey Selingo,
Time,
2 July 2026
Some institutions limit the program to entering students, where the reading involves their first collegiate experience of academic socialization, but at other institutions, all undergraduates are involved.
—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Even at Yale, the humanities were hemorrhaging undergraduates.
—
Ann Manov,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
The institute, anchored in UC Berkeley’s Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, plans to reach 500 students a year via an eventual dozen or more course offerings open to undergraduates across majors.
—
Jaweed Kaleem,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
As undergraduates, Loyola students take their learning on the road.
—
Mike Klingaman,
Baltimore Sun,
28 June 2026
Truell and his future partners — Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger — were all undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
Goldman Sachs’ Pierfrancesco Mei believes this is evidence that undergraduates are changing their behavior to avoid career paths most easily destroyed by AI.
—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
17 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undergraduates
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The annual cap for graduate students is $20,500, with a total cap of $100,000.
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Also, the Grad PLUS loan, which allowed professional and graduate students to borrow up to cost of attendance, will be eliminated.
Noun
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In recent years, thanks to the work of scholars, artists, and local activists, public awareness of the violence of 1898 has increased.
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For a quarter century, Jane Calvert has been on a mission shared by few scholars of the Revolutionary War era.
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