DOCTORATE

Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that, in most countries, qualifies the holder to teach at the university level in the specific field of his or her degree, or to work in a specific profession. While the structure of U.S. doctoral programs is more formal and complex than in some other systems, the research doctorate is not awarded for the preliminary advanced study that leads to doctoral candidacy, but rather for successfully completing and defending the independent research presented in the form of the doctoral dissertation . Several first-professional degrees use the term “doctor” in their title, such as the Juris Doctor and the US version ...

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doctorate

Noun

  1. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

Verb

  1. To make into a doctor.


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