alumnus vs finalist

alumnus

noun
  • A student of any gender. 

  • A male pupil or student. 

  • A male graduate. 

  • A graduate of any gender. 

finalist

noun
  • A university student in their final year of study. 

  • A university student during the period of sitting their final examinations (whether or not in their final year of study). 

  • Somebody or something that appears in the final stage of a competition. 

How often have the words alumnus and finalist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )