Someone who studies

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Types of schools

Vocabulary

Unit I

EDUCATION

What new facts have you learned about American Symbols?

• graduate school (AmE), post-graduate school (BrE) - an advanced stage of education that takes place after a student has finished a uni­versity degree «аспирантура или магистратура»

• (post)graduate course, student; (post)graduate research

e.g. She is doing a graduate course. She is a graduate student at Berkley.

• law school/medical school/business school (AmE) - a university or part of a university where students study law, medicine or business

• to be in (AmE), to be at (BrE) school/college/university - to study there

e.g. We were in college together. My younger sister is still at school. He is at Cambridge studying history. • to attend/to go to university

• to leave school, to graduate from high school/university - to success­fully finish one's studies

e.g. He graduated from Yale in 1989. He left high school without graduating. (to drop out of)

• school leaver/graduate (AmE), a college/university graduate

• student - someone who studies at school/university or college in the USA; at college or university in Britain

• high school/college/university student

• history/English/art student

• part-time student

• full-time student

• transfer student

• first-year student/first-year, second-year student/second-year

e.g. The university only provides rooms for first-years.

• freshman (AmE) - someone who is in the first year at university or high school

• sophomore (AmE) - someone who is in the second year at university or high school

• junior (AmE) - someone who is in the third year at university or high school

• senior (AmE) - someone who is in the last year at university or high school

e.g. a liberal arts freshman, a biology junior, a history sophomore, an undecided freshman

• graduate student

• undergraduate student

• alumna (pl. -nае) - a former female student of a college or university

• alumnus (pl. -ni) - a former male student of a college or university

• fraternity (AmE) - a club of male students usually living in the same house

• sorority (AmE) - a club of women students usually living in the same house

• fraternity brother, sorority sister - a member of fraternity, sorority

• major - 1) a chief or special subject studied by a student at a university

e.g. His major is French. He is majoring in French.

2) a student specializing in that subject

e.g. He is a history major.