Graduate Students
A graduate student is a student who continues his/her education after graduation. Some
examples of graduate programs are: law school, medical school, veterinary school. Degrees
earned in Graduate programs include the Master’s degree, a research doctoral degree, or a
first professional degree.
Vocational School
Students attending vocational school focus on their jobs and learning how to work in
specific fields of work. A vocational program typically takes much less time to complete
than a four-year degree program, lasting 12–24 months. Liberal Arts that are required in fouryear
Universities are less important to these students because the skills necessary for their
careers take precedence in order for a timely completion of the program.
Student politics
Students have their own current of politics and activism on and off campus. The student
rights movement has centered its self on the empowerment of students similar to the labor
movement.
Mature students
A mature, non-traditional, or adult student in tertiary education (at a university or a college)
is normally classified as an (undergraduate) student who is at least 21–23 years old at the
start of their course and usually having been out of the education system for at least two
years. Mature students can also include students who have been out of the education
system for decades, or students with no secondary education. Mature students also make
up graduate and postgraduate populations by demographic of age.
Student pranks
University students have been associated with pranks and japes since the creation of
universities in the Middle Ages. These can often involve petty crime, such as the theft of
traffic cones and other public property, or hoaxes. It is also not uncommon for students
from one school to steal or deface the mascot of a rival school. In fact, pranks play such a
significant part in student culture that numerous books have been published that focus on
the issue.
Students who are repeating a grade level of schooling due to poor grades are sometimes
referred to as having been "held back" or "kept back". In Singapore they are described as
"retained". In the Philippines they are called "repeater".