A graduate is someone who has completed a course at a school, a college or a university.

On the other hand, an undergraduate is someone who is doing his or her first degree at university.

So if you are about to get into university you are a graduate, not an undergraduate.

A graduate student is someone who has receive at least a Bachelor’s degree, and has continued to do scientific research for a Master’s or PhD. I person who got a Bachelor’s and does not continue to attend school for a higher academic degree (not even if they studey for a second Bachelor’s) is not a graduate student. Medical students, law student, and MBA students (I think) are not graduate students even though they are studying for a higher degree because their degrees are professional not “academic”.

Graduates already have a degree and are doing further study.

a graduate program is taken once an undergrad degree has been completed.

Grad is to get your masters (about 1-2 years)