Talk:graduate

If a graduand is someone who has finished their studies but not yet graduated; a graduate is someone who has finished their studies and graduated; what is a the word for someone who is still studying, not yet finished their studies, not yet graduated. Surely not just 'student'?


 * An undergraduate? \Mike 20:06, 27 March 2007 (UTC)


 * In American English, this sense “not yet completed studies” is generally not distinguished, and is referred to simply as “student” or “undergraduate” (as \Mike says) (or “post-graduate”, or “graduate student, post-graduate student”). Note also that American English does not distinguish graduand (that’s a British Commonwealth term, emerged 1882, apparently). If this distinction is drawn, you can say “enrolled, not yet finished, incomplete”, or even the technical pregraduate (unusual, AFAICT).
 * —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 21:39, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

The failure to use "from" with the verb is described to be thought by some to be uneducated. Note the irony. Terry Thorgaard (talk) 16:10, 14 September 2013 (UTC)