academic degree

1. 1.

   an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study

   “he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude”

   Synonymsdegree

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Questions about academic degree

What does academic degree mean?

academic degree means "an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study".

What is another word for academic degree?

Close synonyms include degree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is academic degree a common word?

academic degree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.