next-to-last

Adjective

• used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college
  • the junior class
    
  • a third-year student
    

• next to the last
  • the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter
    
  • the figures in the next-to-last column
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  junior(a) , third-year , penultimate