The phrase "acquiring a degree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of obtaining an academic qualification from an educational institution.
Example: "After years of hard work and dedication, I am finally acquiring a degree in computer science."
Alternatives: "earning a degree" or "obtaining a degree".
After acquiring a degree (and a secret fiancée) at Berkeley — "It is possible to get an education at a university.
The largest cost of acquiring a degree, said Edward Snyder, the dean of the business school at the University of Chicago, was to forgo your current earnings, and weak economies lower that cost.
While the premium that college grads earn over high schoolers has remained relatively constant over the past five years, the cost of acquiring a degree has risen at twice the rate of inflation, dramatically undermining any value a sheepskin adds.
Participating in the Nature Conservancy's LEAF program has helped my view on education evolve from the mindset of acquiring a degree simply to make money into pursuing a degree and a career that I would love every moment of.
Even at its first showing it acquired a degree of notoriety.
Some musicians slowly acquire a degree of absolute pitch, if only for the familiar a′ = 440.
Banti acquired a degree in art and became literary editor of the important arts journal Paragone.
If you were to acquire a degree in one of these programs, how might you use it in your own community and/or elsewhere in the world?
In the meantime, he acquired a degree from the University of California; worked for the family newspaper, the Oakland Tribune; and chaired the executive committee of the Republican National Committee.
In 1927 in Bandung, where he had just acquired a degree in civil engineering, he found his true calling in oratory and politics.
She worked for a year as a secretary and attended nightschool to acquire a degree in education, then became a teacher of history and English at secondary schools in suburban Cleveland.
