Bejan (French French: bejaune, from French: bec jaune, 'yellow beak', in allusion to unfledged birds, and the equivalent to German German: Gelbschnabel) was a term for freshmen, or undergraduates of the first year, in the Scottish universities. The term is rarely used today except at the University of Aberdeen; at the University of St Andrews the word has mutated to Bejant (female: Bejantine).
The phrase was introduced from the French universities, where the levying of Latin: bejaunium ('footing-money') had been prohibited by the statutes of the university of Orleans in 1365 and by those of Toulouse in 1401. In 1493 the election of an Latin: Abbas Bejanorum ('Abbot of the Freshmen') was forbidden in the University of Paris.