non-graduaten.adj.

1855 C. Campbell Hist. Virginia viii. 214 To build and establish the college..to consist of..an hundred scholars, more or less, graduates or non-graduates.

1891 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) May 315 Thirteen out of twenty-three Vice-Presidents have been college men,..while nine..have been non-graduates.

1963 Higher Educ.: Rep. Comm. under Ld. Robbins 29 in Parl. Papers 1962–3 (Cmnd. 2154) XI. 639 Most of the training both for graduates and for non-graduates, is concentrated in four main colleges.

1991 P. Davies Status 109 Non-graduates, for instance, can find it very difficult to get above a certain level in some companies.

1693 Oxford-act ii. 11 All things and Places rightly stated, For Graduates, and Non-graduated. For Doctors, Masters, [etc.].]

1869 Rec. of Meetings of Class of 1822, Yale Coll. 55 (heading) Biographical sketches of the non-graduate members of the class.

1895 H. Rashdall Universities of Europe II. 515 Before the middle of the fifteenth century the teaching of Undergraduates..was mainly in the hands of..Principals and their assistant Regents or non-graduate Lectors in Halls.

1956 Nature 25 Feb. 359/2 This succinct account by a non-graduate student aged twenty-four is still a standard reference.

1996 H. Todd Women at Center 142 Some 9,460..are non-graduate fieldlevel staff who manage the day to day conduct of the Bank's business in the villages.