doctoral degree

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Kennedy said the new rules would exacerbate the California and nationwide nursing shortage because in most cases a doctoral degree is required to teach other nurses.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025

Ms. Tillman, at only 17, became the youngest person to earn a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health from Arizona State’s College of Health Solutions, all before she was eligible to vote.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

In 2013, Black publicly renounced their former ideology and now speaks out publicly against it, while also pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Chicago researching proto-racism in early medieval intellectual history.

From Slate • May 18, 2024

Pixley, who joined the Rutgers faculty in 2017, earned his doctoral degree by studying the conditions involved in producing superconductivity in unconventional materials.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2024

She assured her mother that she would return home to finish her doctoral degree after the trial.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling