doctorate
He began a doctoral degree in education.
I did my doctoral research on religious art.
In 1966 he dropped out of a doctoral program at Stanford.
She is a doctoral candidate at Yale.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Qualifications: university & college
AB
associate's degree
BA
baccalaureate
bachelor's degree
Doctor of Medicine
doctorate
doctorate in something
double major
DPhil
Master of Science
Master's
Master's degree
MB
MBA
postgraduate
Postgraduate Certificate in Education
second degree
summa cum laude
tripos

doctoral | American Dictionary

doctoral
adjective
us/ˈdɑk·tər·əl/
relating to the highest-ranking degree given by a university:
She’s a doctoral student in geology.

Examples of doctoral

doctoral
As one professor and six doctoral students, the authors co-taught a course on action research while doing a self study of their teaching.
A minimum period of one year is typically recommended for full-time fieldwork towards a doctoral degree.
Scholarly articles leave unanswered questions for the next doctoral candidate to resolve.
However, a significant weakness is its handling of sources, which is curious as the work is essentially a doctoral dissertation.
Interspersed with his infectious humour, his musings were a literal godsend to an eager if inexperienced doctoral student.
He was awarded the degree of candidate of historical sciences in 1947 and a doctoral degree in 1958.
The oral thesis he defended for his doctoral examination was related to the above-mentioned problem of reversion of series.
By now you have had thirteen doctoral students.
In the ensuing decade, he has reworked his doctoral thesis substantially as well as considerably extending its scope.
The chapters are grounded in exhaustive research, in several cases making accessible the findings of unpublished doctoral theses.
I had a law degree, and took part in doctoral seminars in sociology, philosophy, and the history of literature.
To get a doctor's degree you had subsequently to write a doctoral dissertation, which had to be a printed book.
After recovery, she remained a nun and has become a patient advocate and doctoral candidate in bioethics.
This study was part of a doctoral dissertation.
Even her doctoral dissertation was not detailed enough to do full justice to it.
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