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an undergraduate student vs a undergraduate student

The correct phrase is 'an undergraduate student.' The choice between 'a' and 'an' depends on the sound that follows. 'An' is used before words that begin with a vowel sound, while 'a' is used before words that begin with a consonant sound.

Last updated: March 29, 2024

an undergraduate student

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

Use 'an undergraduate student' when referring to a student who is pursuing a bachelor's degree. The use of 'an' is based on the vowel sound at the beginning of 'undergraduate.'

Examples:

  • She is an undergraduate student at the university.
  • An undergraduate student must complete a certain number of credits to graduate.
  • When I was an undergraduate student, I... I became close to a female classmate.
  • So I kluged this together, I got the Harvey Mudd Engineering Clinic to actually do it as an undergraduate student project initially, and then I kluged funding from a whole bunch of different sources.
  • Here's an example. In just a matter of a few weeks, an undergraduate student of mine built an app that ultimately reached 1.3 million users.
  • I had two undergraduate students at California Institute of Technology that worked with me.
  • I finally got around to calculus as a 32-year-old tenured professor at Harvard, where I sat uncomfortably in classes with undergraduate students, little more than half my age.
  • This little fellow was developed by a group of 10 undergraduate students at the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at ETH-Zurich.
  • About 10 years ago, I took on the task to teach global development to Swedish undergraduate students.
  • As a result, undergraduate students struggle to understand even the abstracts of papers on the complex representations of microeconomic reality that fill research journals.
  • that undergraduate students had precognitive powers, it probably wouldn't get published in a journal.
  • Certain British universities, such as the University of Leeds, offer bursaries of varying amounts to full-time undergraduate students with family incomes under a certain threshold.
  • What will be the eligibility criteria for the student loan guarantee facility, and will this also cover undergraduate students seeking to study in a Member State other than their country of origin?
  • It has already been stated here that there are more women undergraduate students in universities than men; this is also true of Master's and Doctoral degree students - there are more women.
  • They learned how to distinguish different species of mosses, which, to tell you the truth, is a lot more than my undergraduate students at the Evergreen College can do.
  • What really bugs my UCLA undergraduate students is, how on earth did these societies not see what they were doing?
  • About 10 years ago, I took on the task to teach global development to Swedish undergraduate students. That was after having spent about 20 years together with African institutions studying hunger in Africa, so I was sort of expected to know a little about the world.
  • Can you tell us how a man like you came to meet a 20-year-old undergraduate student...
  • What if we started the way that we agreed we were going to start, which is by saying that I'm severely bipolar, my academic career recently imploded when the university became aware that I was having an affair with a 22-year-old undergraduate student?
  • Is the Commission considering similar measures for other types of student, such as undergraduate students or mature students, including those students who wish to study in their home Member State?
  • This widening would dilute the impact of the programmes by reducing the already scarce resources available for exchanges of undergraduate and graduate students.
  • funding of competitions for secondary school, undergraduate and graduate students.

Alternatives:

  • a student pursuing an undergraduate degree
  • a college student
  • a bachelor's degree student
  • a student in their first degree program
  • a student working towards a bachelor's degree

a undergraduate student

This phrase is incorrect in English. The article 'a' should not be used before a word starting with a vowel sound like 'undergraduate.'

  • As a result, undergraduate students struggle to understand even the abstracts of papers on the complex representations of microeconomic reality that fill research journals.
  • This little fellow was developed by a group of 10 undergraduate students at the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at ETH-Zurich.
  • Can you tell us how a man like you came to meet a 20-year-old undergraduate student...
  • What if we started the way that we agreed we were going to start, which is by saying that I'm severely bipolar, my academic career recently imploded when the university became aware that I was having an affair with a 22-year-old undergraduate student?
  • I had two undergraduate students at California Institute of Technology that worked with me.
  • When I was an undergraduate student, I... I became close to a female classmate.
  • I finally got around to calculus as a 32-year-old tenured professor at Harvard, where I sat uncomfortably in classes with undergraduate students, little more than half my age.
  • About 10 years ago, I took on the task to teach global development to Swedish undergraduate students.
  • So I kluged this together, I got the Harvey Mudd Engineering Clinic to actually do it as an undergraduate student project initially, and then I kluged funding from a whole bunch of different sources.
  • Here's an example. In just a matter of a few weeks, an undergraduate student of mine built an app that ultimately reached 1.3 million users.
  • that undergraduate students had precognitive powers, it probably wouldn't get published in a journal.
  • Certain British universities, such as the University of Leeds, offer bursaries of varying amounts to full-time undergraduate students with family incomes under a certain threshold.
  • What will be the eligibility criteria for the student loan guarantee facility, and will this also cover undergraduate students seeking to study in a Member State other than their country of origin?
  • It has already been stated here that there are more women undergraduate students in universities than men; this is also true of Master's and Doctoral degree students - there are more women.
  • They learned how to distinguish different species of mosses, which, to tell you the truth, is a lot more than my undergraduate students at the Evergreen College can do.
  • What really bugs my UCLA undergraduate students is, how on earth did these societies not see what they were doing?
  • About 10 years ago, I took on the task to teach global development to Swedish undergraduate students. That was after having spent about 20 years together with African institutions studying hunger in Africa, so I was sort of expected to know a little about the world.
  • Is the Commission considering similar measures for other types of student, such as undergraduate students or mature students, including those students who wish to study in their home Member State?
  • This widening would dilute the impact of the programmes by reducing the already scarce resources available for exchanges of undergraduate and graduate students.
  • funding of competitions for secondary school, undergraduate and graduate students.

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