Sentence examples for first degrees from from inspiring English sources

"In most O.E.C.D. countries young women are now more likely than young men to obtain first degrees from university-level institutions," the group announced in its annual survey of educational policy.

Williams's first degree, from the University of Lancaster, was in English literature.

He inexplicably failed to win a place at Cambridge and earned his first degree from the University of Leicester in 1933.

That comment drew widespread and appreciative laughter, but when Mr. Bush mentioned that he had received his first degree from the university in 1968, one student shouted, "Barely!" It was not the only catcall.

(Of those who graduated within six years after enrolling at a two-year school, for most their first degree was a two-year degree. About 12 percent of those who started out at a two-year school received their first degree from a four-year school).

Clare Davies earned her first degree from Oxford and her PhD from Loughborough.

"I received my first degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1977," Suresh told PCAST in his first appearance before the 24-member White House advisory body.

The power spectrum is computed for each cap, and the cutoff harmonic degree is defined as the first degree from which the power spectrum value is lower than the misfit value between the regional model and the synthetic measurements.

By the time Hungarian biologist Csaba Pàl earned his first degree from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in 1998, he already had a research paper in an international journal, on theoretical models of how genetic factors may influence evolutionary processes.

He received his first degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and Tel Aviv University and his master's degree at Harvard Business School.

He graduated from Bristol University with a BSc (honours) in physiology and later achieved a second degree from the College of Law in London.