What's the difference between "alumna" and "estudiante"?

Question

What's the difference between "alumna" and "estudiante"?

Answer 1

Pupil & student alumna makes it feminine

Answer 2

Peter is right. If I mean to say that someone is a student in the sense of "a person who studies" I would call him "estudiante." If I mean to say he is enrolled as a student somewhere, I would call him an alumno.

Soy alumna de la University of Pennsylvania.**

Soy estudiante de español.

**Bueno, ERA alumna. Ahora--y hace muchos años--soy "alumna" en el sentido inglés. Es decir, soy licenciada, jaja.

Loved the footnote :D - Manity, Feb 26, 2013

Lol, the disclaimer was necessary because any implication of youth would be a gross misstatement of the facts. - MyHeadAboveWater, Feb 27, 2013

Answer 3

My understanding is that "alumno(a)" is a student studying in a formal situation (in a school, or at least under a teacher), while "estudiante" can be someone studying on his own, like me.

No soy alumno de español. Soy estudiante.

Answer 4

Hoy es martes

Sí es amigo. - ian-hill, Feb 26, 2013

Answer 5

alumna" y "estudiante"