finalist vs student

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. 

student

noun
  • A person who studies or learns about a particular subject. 

  • A person who is enrolled at a college or university (as contrasted with a pupil or schoolchild attending a primary or secondary school). 

  • A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution. 

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