bachelor's degree
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According to his LinkedIn page, Loftis attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha from 2000-2005 and earned a bachelor’s degree in management of information systems.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
Americans who recently earned their bachelor’s degree have faced a challenging job market in the pat few years.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Powell and student researcher Louis Buchalter, who earned a Cal Poly bachelor's degree in physics in 2025, published their findings in Physical Review B in a paper titled "Flux-Switching Floquet Engineering."
From Science Daily • May 4, 2026
After they left the drag-racing circuit in 1968, Barry Mano got a bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and a master’s in urban affairs from UW-Milwaukee.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
I made Bryce twenty-two years old and gave him a brand-new Social Security number, an immaculate credit rating, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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