The word "graduated" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who has successfully completed a certain level of education or training. For example, "Sandy graduated from college last week with a degree in Accounting."
In the days that I followed Jones around, I heard several people who ran training programs in green professions complain that once their students had graduated they couldn't find work.
I had literally just graduated and went straight into a graduate role in a local renewables company.
Everyone here could have gone and got a job in the City when they graduated but they chose not to".
When I graduated from high school in 1938, my two opportunities for employment were working in agriculture or being a domestic servant.
I have become better with money but there was a big reality check at first – and there are times when I have lived off porridge and pea soup!" Jaisal Patel, 22, BA modern languages and business, University of Liverpool "I graduated this summer and am starting a job as a wetstock data analyst at a petroleum management company, helping to minimise leaks and theft at garage forecourts.
It enabled his son to go to Stowe and he then went up to Cambridge, from which he graduated with a masters in economics.
He went to Magdalen College School in Oxford, then to Cambridge, where he graduated with a first.
Riley graduated in February from the NFTS, the Buckinghamshire institution that has trained some of Britain's foremost film-makers.
But Kennedy, who won the Observer Mace for university debating in 1982 in the year he graduated from Glasgow university, placed the fight for social justice and the battle to keep the UK in the EU at the heart of his politics.
Seven of Brenda's siblings and cousins have graduated, but they held their parties in Kampala, where most of their friends lived.
Emily, who graduated from Canterbury Christ Church University in 2013, says: "I realised I wouldn't be able to write during my exams in third year, because my muscles were totally seized up and I was in excruciating pain.
