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graduate from, graduate in

The familiar phrases to graduate high school and to graduate university are not recommended; the correct verb phrase is graduate from.

  • Yasser graduated from high school (not graduated high school) in Regina.

Moreover, one graduates in a subject or discipline.

  • Phyllis graduated from McGill in music, while her twin graduated in medicine.

An educational institution graduates those who have studied there.

  • Canadian universities graduate over ten thousand engineers each year.