Graduate or Postgraduate?

SextusI'd like to know if a PhD scholarship is "graduate" or "postgraduate" scholarsphip.

Thanks

postgraduate.
Postgraduate means you have already had a masters degree, say, in physics.
There are postgraduate studies or research phd courses you can go for in physics after having finished your degree course.

Hi guys,

Or D. Phil. at Oxford.

Clive

Hello,

I have a feeling there is a US/UK difference in the usage of the words "graduate" and "postgraduate" but am unable to clarify it. Does anyone agree and know more about this?

I dont think so. I think graduate applies to a first ~(bachelors) degree in both US and Brit English, and post graduate for a higher level degree.

Well, I did what I should have done before asking, i.e. consulted my dictionary (OALD), and it says on the topic:

"In BrE, a graduate is a person who has completed a first degree at a university or college. In NAmE graduate is usually used with another noun and can also apply to a person who has finished high school: a high school graduate, a graduate student.
A postgraduate is a per

As it says, above, we (AmE) use the term "graduate student" to refer to someone who has completed his or her bachelor's degree and is working on a master's or doctorate.

"Postgraduate" is actually a rather vague term - and to me is usually an adjective used to describe study after you have finished the doctorate, but are still stuying something. If someone said "My son is a postgraduate

Hi,

I've never heard the term 'postgraduate' used as a noun to refer to a person. I've always heard it as an adjective.

I think that in N. America, the term 'alumnus/alumni' is commonly used instead of 'graduate/s'. I also believe that this is starting to creep into use in BrE, not without some spirited protesting by some groups of British graduates.

Best wishes, Clive

Graduate courses are courses toward a master's degree or a Ph.D. degree.
In most universities they can be taken by undergraduates -- students who do not yet have a four-year (bachelor's) degree -- with special permission, but undergraduates usually take mostly undergraduate courses, and graduates take mostly graduate courses.
Once you have finished your Ph.D., you may wish to do po