Name: English Tutor Nick P Lesson (273) The Difference Between Undergraduate, Graduate and Alumnus
Uploaded: 2019-07-13T14:11:03.000Z
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 273.

The title of today's lesson is the difference

between undergraduate, graduate and alumnus.

what's the difference between all of these three.

what's the difference between really all four.

So let's take a look at the first note here . An undergraduate

is a student who is studying at a college

who is presently in the first level of college.

a junior or a senior. You actually haven't

All right. So let's look at the first example here.

He is still just an undergraduate student.

Yes. So he hasn't graduated yet. All right.

and gotten all their credits from a  high school, college or university.

So a graduate means that you did finish the school.

Or you could have a college graduate that never actually

So again. Let's take a look at the note here.

Okay.  Let's continue. If you have already

master's degree or a Ph.D.  you are a post graduate student.

Yeah. So if you decide not to go for a masters

or a PhD , we just say you are a graduate.

But if you do try,  if you start attending a university,

At that present time,  you are a postgraduate student.

An alumnus is a student who graduated from

you're talking about. Because usually you say,

particular school or a particular university.

So,  let's say alumnus is directly from Latin,

sometimes have an ' I'  as a plural. Okay All right.

we have for this. He is an alumnus of Harvard University.

Yeah so again. Usually when we say alumnus,

we will either say the university or it's already understood which university,

Then we say alumnus or alumni for the  plural

This one is again,  mostly used for university.

I might sometimes even hear it used for high school.

school or primary school . You,  of course

you could say that they graduated from there,

but we don't usually use this Latin term.

We mostly use it for college and sometimes high school.

All right. So let's look at the example here.

They invited all the alumni from the year 1998

All right. So this is in the plural,  but of course here

when you say this , it's probably understood.

which university you're already talking about.

I hope you got it. hope you can clearly see.  the difference

between all these terms now. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

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