Sentence examples for first class degrees from inspiring English sources

The figures also showed a 14 per cent increase in First Class degrees awarded between 2012-13 and 2013-14.

In 2013, male Oxford graduates received more first class degrees in 26 out of the 38 schools in which both genders were examined.

Only a minority of students will achieve first class degrees – the most recent figures show a sixth of students did so last year.

He was so intelligent that he graduated from high school when he was only 15 and, at 19, left Furman University, Greenville, with two first class degrees, one in physics and the other in modern languages.

Last year, Ogilvy vice-chairman Rory Sutherland said that he was only going to hire graduates with thirds as he says that, "nobody has any evidence that those with first class degrees are any better employees than those with thirds".

Brasenose's academic record was good, with seven of thirty-seven first class degrees awarded across Oxford between 1808 and 1810.

Read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford, taking a first class degree.

Gertrude Bell was the first woman to graduate from Oxford with a First Class degree.

Emily has a first class degree in chemistry from the University of Bristol and tweets at @emilyhwilson.

He'd been the "scholarship boy, chosen boy, first class degree.

She had won academic prizes and was tipped for a first class degree.