It is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to the completion of a degree that someone is undertaking. For example: "He was determined to complete the degree and went on to become a successful doctor."
On a local level, several private foundations and workforce development organizations (including CAEL) have joined forces to help move these adults back into education and on to the workforce with a city-wide initiative, Complete The Degree.
The participants will complete the degree requirements next summer and become eligible for provisional certification.
But tuition costs $21,000 — in total, for all four years it takes to complete the degree.
Failing to complete the degree, he muses, set a precedent of sorts: "Most of my subsequent projects didn't exactly come to fruition, either".
While staff are paid while they complete the degree, councils will often expect the person to stay with the organisation for a number of years after graduation.
For example, some engineering courses at university require students to have an A-level in maths alongside their BTec diploma, to ensure they have the mathematical skills required to complete the degree successfully".
After completing the degree, he switched directions and went to Columbia Law School.
Later, Mr. Samueli went to teach in the engineering department at U.C.L.A., and Mr. Nicholas followed, becoming his first Ph.D. candidate and completing the degree in 1997.
She started a second Ph.D., in computer science, at the University of Toronto, but was offered a faculty position there before completing the degree.
He received a master's degree in writing from the University of Arizona in 1987, and began studying for a PhD in philosophy at Harvard, but left before completing the degree.
Those still working can take advantage of its "executive option" in the master's program in philanthropic studies, spending an intensive week at the Indianapolis campus for three summers and completing the degree via distance learning.
