Sentence examples for awards a degree from inspiring English sources

Two of the country's leading experts on fraudulent schools, the Illinois professor George Gollin and the former F.B.I. agent Allen Ezell, said that the apparently now-defunct Amhurst University, which billed itself as a distance learning center, was a diploma mill, essentially a school that awards a degree for money rather than the actual completion of coursework.

But in 1993, after revising her thesis, she was awarded a degree, and began the first of several postdoctoral appointments.

The 26-year-old was awarded a degree in medicine, eight years after her rejection from Oxford sparked a political storm.

Professors say they resent being pressured by the government to award a degree to the Libyan leader, given that he sent troops to prop up Idi Amin.

Needless to say, mum couldn't believe I'd be awarded a degree for writing essays about the fetishisation of Amitabh Bachchan's legs!

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His thesis, for which he was awarded a degree in 1954, was on the topic of Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic Dominican priest and one of the most important Medieval philosophers and theologians.

Interviewed by Tom Brokaw for his book "The Greatest Generation," Mr. Guthman recalled how he had not been awarded a degree by the University of Washington on entering the Army because he had not completed the R.O.T.C. program.

A term later, in April 1997, I was back at Karlsruhe and in June 1999 I was awarded a degree as diploma-engineer in architecture, specialising in urban planning.

Even with the emotional support of family and peers, first-generation students who come from a background in which money is tight may continue to grapple with the financial aspects of college long after they are awarded a degree.

In 1893 she was awarded a degree in physics and began work in an industrial laboratory of Professor Gabriel Lippmann.