Types of students

leaving school before completing one's degree/diploma

thumb|150px|Freshman class artwork, from East Texas State Normal College's 1920 Locust yearbook A freshman, fresher, first year, or colloquially frosh, is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary school or at the college and university level, but also in other forms of post-secondary educational institutions.

thumb|right|Two talibés boys in Vélingara, Senegal. A talibé (also spelled talibe, plural talibés; , 'student'; pl. ) is a boy, usually from Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Chad, Mali or Mauritania, who studies the Quran at a daara (West African equivalent of madrasa). This education is guided by a teacher known as a marabout. In most cases talibés leave their parents to stay in the daara.

college or university attendee who re-enrolls for several years more than is necessary to obtain a given degree

student who is an adult and returning or starting full-time education

student in the fourth year of study, esp. in the U.S.