doctoral

doctorate | American Dictionary

doctorate
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdɑk·tər·ət/
one of the highest-ranking degrees given by a university:
He earned a doctorate at the University of Chicago.

Examples of doctorate

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In the 1990s, the percentage of women earning doctorates was 23.65 (up from 4.1 in the 1970s).
I had survived cancer and completed my doctorate.
She graduated with an interdisciplinary doctorate which combined the fields of musicology, philosophy, and studies on visual culture.
In these fields the doctorate degree is more or less the final degree before starting a professional career even outside the system of science.
The proportion of students doing doctorates increased with age, and also the proportion studying on a course-by-course basis rather than towards a specific degree.
She holds a doctorate from the same university.
Teaching is carried out at the master and doctorate levels.
Monitors and doctorate programs are similar in both types of organizations.
His early career advancement, after acquiring a doctorate in economics in the late 1920s, was unremarkable.
She completed a doctorate in music education in 2003.
Nearly half of all women who completed a university education in biology in this period earned a doctorate.
Because of institutional restrictions, both women earned their doctorates by circuitous routes.
He attained his doctorate in mathematics and has been working in the area of geometric modeling and computer-aided design for a number of years.
I was unusual in the field of bioethics in that, although my doctorate was in ethics, my original graduate training was in the medical sciences.
At least ten in the former (41 per cent) can claim a candidates degree or aspirantura, one of them with a doctorate.
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