The phrase "master's degree student" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a student who is currently enrolled in a master's degree program. For example, "My older sister is a master's degree student at Columbia University."
Mr. Morlot will conduct the cellist Matthew Zalkind (a master's degree student studying with Timothy Eddy at Juilliard) in Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme.
"As soon as I figured out that campus had been infected, it all made sense," said Ms. Assey, a second-year master's degree student.
Under the circumstances you could feel that Morgan Jones, a master's degree student in the Juilliard School's jazz program, deserved a medal just for agreeing to play Carman Moore's "Concerto for Ornette".
Recent data is hard to come by, but the latest government figures, from 2007-8, show that average debt on graduation for a master's degree student is about $37,000, and $51,400 for Ph.D.'s, including undergraduate debt.
"A master's degree student who can only find a job as a waitress is a failure on our part because we've wasted that person's time and taxpayers' money," Stevens declared.
Ms. Gore Schiff is now a master's degree student at the Union Theological Seminary (her father was in divinity school before law school), and she is heavily involved with the Association to Benefit Children, a New York-based nonprofit, where she is now a board member.
If you are a Ph.D. or master's-degree student at a university that has an M.B.A. program, you might be allowed to audit a business school class.
As an undergraduate she had scholarships, but as a master's-degree student she didn't have a scholarship, a teaching gig, or a research assistantship, so she took out federal loans--which she will pay off through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program--and worked to supplement the family's income.
I learn so much more by getting hands-on experience, not just reading about it," says master's-degree student Julie Huseklepp Tunli of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), who spent this summer in Svalbard doing fieldwork with migratory birds.
The thesis dances of 16 graduating master's-degree students in New York University's Dance Education Program will be presented in two programs in "Moving by Design".
The Attacca, which performed in the Museum of Modern Art's Summergarden series on Sunday evening, consists of master's-degree students at the Juilliard School: Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga, violinists; Gillian Gallagher, violist; and Andrew Yee, cellist.
