"degree is conferred" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example: On graduation day, the degree is conferred upon the students who have successfully completed the program.
The Tassel Tradition dictates that graduates flick this from one side to the other when the degree is conferred.
The SED acts as a census, taking a snapshot of those earning doctoral degrees in the United States at the time their degree is conferred, and the SDR aims to follow a subset of Ph.D.-level scientists in the United States through their careers.
Commencement is not only the day your diploma or degree is conferred, but the start of you using the knowledge you've gained to advance yourself and create more than income but a fulfilling life.
The tassel will be attached to the cap, it should be worn on the right side before the degree is conferred and afterwards shifted to the left the moment the degree awarded.
Inasmuch as he later lectured at Paris, it is probable that his master of arts degree was conferred there, presumably not before 1241 a date in keeping with his claim that he saw the Franciscan professor Alexander of Hales (d. 1245) with his own eyes and that he heard the master scholar William of Auvergne (d. 1249) dispute twice in the presence of the whole university.
Of the 191 respondents from the second cohort 46 identified 2004 as the year their CRTF was awarded but this cannot be true because the survey was only dispatched to individuals starting their CRTF between 1993 and 2003; undoubtedly some individuals have responded as the year the degree was conferred rather than the year their CRTF was awarded.
According to the registrar's office at M.I.T., no degrees were conferred on Ms. McFarland during her time there.
Although graduate degrees were conferred in the 19th century, the Graduate School was not formally established until 1927.
Jewish Theological Seminary The Jewish Theological Seminary held its commencement ceremony on Thursday afternoon at the Park Avenue Synagogue on 87th Street, where 109 undergraduate and graduate degrees were conferred and 24 rabbis were ordained.
Honorary degrees were conferred upon A. M. Rosenthal, Pulitzer Prize journalist long with The New York Times and now a columnist for The Daily News, and Constance Emmer Lieber, a philanthropist and advocate of mental health research.
He created an allegorical "progress" in the quadrangle: one passed in succession through the Gate of Humility, the Gate of Virtue, and finally the Gate of Honour, which led toward the schools, where degrees are conferred.
