master's degree

noun

1. a degree awarded by a graduate school or department, usually to a person who has completed at least one year of graduate study.

Example Sentences

He spoke of his grandparents' role in saving Jews during World War Two and said his ambition now was to obtain a master's degree in law, and to be reunited with his girlfriend - if she'd still have him, when all this was over.

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"When I wanted to do a master's degree after I finished engineering my parents told me to get a job."

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UChicago also stands to lose significant revenue if full-tuition-paying international students, who make up the bulk of some of its master’s degree programs, choose to study outside the U.S. amid the uncertain landscape here.

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After getting a master’s degree in education there, he went on to earn a doctorate at Fielding Graduate University and had a teaching career including posts at Fielding and Lincoln University, near Oxford, Pa.

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There she met Joan Goldsmith, who was the associate director of a master’s degree program in education.

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