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Yu earned her doctorate in 2017 with an award for best dissertation.
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Steve Nadis, Wired News, 1 June 2025
Those quotas include an average enrollment of 15 or more for three consecutive years in bachelor degree programs, 10 students in associate degree programs, 7 students in master’s programs and 3 in educational specialist and doctorate degree programs.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
Ritter has a doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor of arts from Cornell University.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 20 May 2025
My brother Owen is 29 and finishing a doctorate in piano on Long Island.
—Frances Dodds Samantha Desz Krish Seenivasan Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 18 May 2025
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Steve Nadis, Wired News, 1 June 2025
Those quotas include an average enrollment of 15 or more for three consecutive years in bachelor degree programs, 10 students in associate degree programs, 7 students in master’s programs and 3 in educational specialist and doctorate degree programs.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
Ritter has a doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor of arts from Cornell University.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 20 May 2025
My brother Owen is 29 and finishing a doctorate in piano on Long Island.
—Frances Dodds Samantha Desz Krish Seenivasan Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 18 May 2025
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“Doctorate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doctorate. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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doctorate
noun
doc·tor·ate
ˈdäk-t(ə-)rət 
: the degree, title, or rank of a doctor
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