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bachelor's degree

American  

noun

  1. a degree awarded by a college or university to a person who has completed undergraduate studies.


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Bill and earned his bachelor’s degree in social sciences before pursuing a master’s in history from the same school before eventually earning a doctorate at USC.

From Los Angeles Times

She earned her bachelor's degree in nutritional science from the University of Missouri and completed her medical degree at the University of Maryland-Baltimore.

From Science Daily

He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.

From BBC

He attended the elite, and at the time all-male, Princeton University where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1966.

From Barron's

Chisholm now makes $25 an hour at Temple University Hospital and is working on a bachelor’s degree in human-resource management, which her employer is helping fund.

From The Wall Street Journal