The phrase "obtain degree" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to someone successfully completing a course of study and gaining a qualification or academic title of some kind. For example: "After five years of hard work, Jane was finally able to obtain her degree in chemistry."
Both institutions benefit from the arrangement: Sunderland by entering the London market and thereby increasing their appeal to international students; EThames by expanding into the degree market without the cumbersome and lengthy process of having to obtain degree-awarding powers.
Making it easier for new private providers to obtain degree-awarding powers is at odds with the primacy of academic quality and the protection of students' interests, since new institutions will not have to prove their quality and robustness through building up a track record.
Mr. Mathews, once a high school dropout, went on to serve in the Marine Corps and obtain degrees from Wesleyan University and Cornell Law School.
The developed equations can be used to obtain degree-days of locations in same climatic zone for which daily temperature data are not available, with a fair accuracy.
4. Learning Education to obtain degrees and informal development of skills and bodies of knowledge.
You've just earned your college degree... Despite your newly obtained degree, you don't know anything.
The report showed that only 10 students obtained degrees properly.
Kar-Yan Tam said "over 80% of our professors obtained degrees from world top universities – Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford – we are glad of ripple effect from word-of-mouth recommendations".
It's easy to imagine him in front of a classroom at the City College of New York, where he taught English after obtaining degrees from Harvard and Columbia.
But the fierce competition for jobs between highly qualified graduates frequently makes the headlines as more and more people struggle to find employment, despite obtaining degrees.
Following his ordination in 1969, he did graduate work at Catholic University, obtaining degrees in Semitic languages and theology.
