First-year in a sentence as an adjective

Average ages of first-year MBA students have been getting younger, especially at the top-tier programs like HBS and Stanford. This is, quite frankly, defeating the original purpose of business school: to be a finishing school, and not a preparatory school.

First-year definitions

adjective

used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college); "a freshman senator"; "freshman year in high school or college"

See also: freshman