undergraduate

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He had worked in banking at Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo following his undergraduate years, and thought the master’s would help him pivot into brand management.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

“The Dodgers had committed to paying and whatever it was, it was a lot more collectively — my undergraduate MA and PhD — than I had gotten in the bonus.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

The study also involved Dr. Soheil Kavian, Ph.D. students Crystal Alvarez and Ron Sellers, and undergraduate student Gabriel Arismendi Sanchez, all from the mechanical engineering department.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

"Mechanical engineer and computer scientist by degree, independent game developer by experience, teacher by birth," according to his profile, which noted that he had an undergraduate degree from the California Institute of Technology.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

The student next to me said he’d studied Isaiah Berlin at Oxford; the other said he’d already heard this lecturer’s remarks on Berlin when he was an undergraduate at Cambridge.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover