doctoral candidate
Examples
Good thing, because, several years later when I was an undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley, I immediately recognized Jencks, who, twenty-two years my senior, had just entered Berkeley as a doctoral candidate in economics.
He studied under Donald Schleicher as an orchestral conducting doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois.
Benjamin Serby is a doctoral candidate in US history at Columbia University.
He claimed Regeni died in a traffic accident, the privately owned Al-Shorouk newspaper reported, stating that there is no suspicion of foul play in the death of the 28-year-old Italian doctoral candidate.
“Students are not only exposed to Day’s work and personal and professional life, but also to the larger worlds of antebellum society, politics and business,” said Leah Porter, CD-ROM producer and doctoral candidate in American History at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Graduate and professional students in the United States are known by their year of study, such as a "second-year medical student" or a "fifth-year doctoral candidate."