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8 unusual facts about Academic degree


Darren Cann

On 18 July 2001, Cann was appointed as head coach to the University of New Brunswick men's soccer team, but left in 2003 when the job was turned into a position requiring a university degree.

Eye care professional

Another important difference between the types of oculists is that while optometrists may obtain their doctorate by graduating at a special school in which they are trained to be optometrists, ophthalmologists are medical doctors who need to graduate from medical school and many years of internships in order to be able to get their degree.

Lester D. Mallory

He received a bachelor of science in agriculture in 1927 and a master of science in agriculture degree in 1929 from the University of British Columbia.

Rehabilitation engineering

While some rehabilitation engineers have master’s degrees in rehabilitation engineering, usually a subspecialty of Biomedical engineering, most rehabilitation engineers have undergraduate or graduate degrees in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering.

Ryan France

He had been courted by a number of league clubs but chose to remain with Alfreton until he had completed his degree at Nottingham Trent University where he graduated in Sport & Exercise Science and Mathematics.

Shenzhen University

It has been at the forefront of many academic and administrative reforms and has expanded its pursuit to include excellence in undergraduate teaching as well as research-intensive programs for graduate and post graduate degrees.

Veterstrikdiploma

Veterstrikdiploma is sometimes used as a derogatory term for a diploma or degree which is deemed worthless.

Weston College

The new University Campus opened on the same site in September 2007 to provide sixth form facilities and also be the centre for degree courses.


Arthur Torres

He holds a Bachelor's degree from UC Santa Cruz and a Juris Doctor from University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall).

Bournville School

The school's badge depicts a Griffin (or Gryphon) segreant, wearing a mortarboard cap and brandishing a rolled Academic degree and draws its imagery from the school's proximity to the nearby traditional watercourse of Griffin's Brook, sadly now piped underground for most of its length.

Centre for Music and Performing Arts

Graduates of the Music Diploma and Degree have gone on to schools such as the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music and the Guildhall School in London.

Dr. Kamakshi Institute of Paramedical Sciences

Its affiliated hospital, Dr. Kamakshi Memorial Hospital, is aligned with Bharathiar University to conduct degree courses.

Goh Tat Chuan

He graduated from St Joseph's Institution and the Nanyang Technological University and was one of the few players in the Singapore national soccer team to have a degree.

Jeremy Leman

Leman graduated from the University of Illinois with a speech communication degree and a master's degree in Human Resource Education.

John E. Steele

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Detroit in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Detroit College of Law in 1973.

Leonor Beleza

Leonor Beleza is a graduate of the University of Lisbon Law School, where she has also worked as an Assistant Professor.

Master's degree

A master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

Mike Del Grande

Since that time, he also received a Bachelor of Commerce and Finance degree in 1976 and a Bachelor of Education degree in 2002, both from the University of Toronto, as well as a Master's degree in Theological Studies from St. Augustine in 2000.

Monica Goodling

Goodling is a 1991 graduate of Northeastern High School in Manchester, Pennsylvania, and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995 from Messiah College.

Paul Byard

Byard graduated from Milton Academy in Massachusetts in 1957, from Yale College in 1961 and went on to receive degrees from Clare College, Cambridge, Harvard Law School, and from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture.

Sandy D'Alemberte

In 1955, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with honors from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and also attended summer school at Florida State University and the University of Virginia.

The Dogg

After graduating from high school, Morocky chose to study for a Science degree at the University of Namibia.

Thomas E. Dooley

Dooley received a Bachelor of Science degree from St. John's University in New York City in 1978 and an Master of Business Administration from the New York University Stern School of Business in 1984.


see also

Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations

It is under this Act, that the Archbishop of Canterbury can award a Lambeth degree as an academic degree.

Ahmad-Jabir Ahmadov Ismail oghlu

In June 2001 by the decision of the Academic Board of the "Azerbaijan State Economic University" he was awarded the academic degree of the professor of the department “Commodity research of Foodstuffs”.

Carla Sandoval

She earned the academic degree Interprete superior de Piano con distinción máxima (Superior piano performer with highest honors) in the music institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Charles Wilbert Snow

But Snow rebelled at the rigid academic degree progression and told Ashley Horace Thorndike head of Columbia's English Department that the PhD "was a German invention designed to turn an art into a science."

Continental education system

In contrast to the Anglo-Saxon model where you have a common lower and higher academic degree for all subjects (Bachelor degree and Master's degree, respectively), in the German model the degrees are Diplom for the more practical subjects such as i.e. engineering, but also economics and business and (in Germany and Austria) the Magister Artium for the more theoretical subjects, such as social sciences or humanities.

English honorifics

Dr: (Doctor) for a person who has obtained any doctoral-level academic degree, such as the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.), or Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), but most often refers to a degree-holder in a medically related field, specifically a Physician or Surgeon (a.k.a. a medical 'doctor').

LLD

Legum Doctor (LL.D.), a doctorate-level academic degree in law

Malone University

Malone's more well-known academic degree programs include Nursing, Communications, Pre-Medical Sciences (Pre-Vet, Pre-Med, Pre-Optometry, Pre-Dental), Zoo and Wildlife Biology, Music Production and Education, Education, and Business Administration.

Master of Science

The Master of Science (M.Sc.) academic degree has been recently introduced in Germany, as the once common Diplom or Magister programmes typically lasting four to five years were replaced by separate three-year bachelor and two-year master programs.

Vak

VAK (Vysshaya Attestacionnaya Komissiya), he Higher Attestation Commission, the main academic degree awarding body in the USSR and Russia