The phrase "awarding degrees" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in the context of educational institutions conferring academic degrees to students upon completion of their studies.
Example: "The university will be awarding degrees to the graduating class during the commencement ceremony."
Alternatives: "confer degrees" or "grant degrees".
"Instead of awarding degrees to our smartest young people, we are awarding degrees to our most able corrupters".
In the second item he is awarding degrees to medical students.
As if we are awarding degrees - that's how we give literary prizes in this country.
Tyndale was cited in 1998 for violating a law that requires seminaries to be accredited and prevents unaccredited institutions from awarding degrees.
Tony Pollock, the new head of IDP - the marketing and recruitment company jointly owned by Australia's major universities - rules out institutional dishonesty in awarding degrees to foreign students.
Though some such institutions could prosper as portals for courses developed elsewhere, or by awarding degrees based in part on mastery of MOOCs, most are at serious risk of displacement.Elite institutions face very different circumstances, Ms Hoxby reckons.
And any listener still awarding degree-of-difficulty points can look to "Work" and "Brilliant Corners," which arrive in sequence, like a couple of speed bumps.
The students, from Polytechnic's campuses in Brooklyn, Long Island and Westchester County, were awarded degrees in science, engineering and technology.
Less famous names will teach full-time, and students will be awarded degrees through the University of London.
This was the first graduation for inmates since 2001, when 18 Sing Sing inmates were awarded degrees by Nyack College in a special temporary program.
From 1889 to 1962 the Halifax Conservatory was affiliated with and awarded degrees through the Dalhousie.
