master's degree

American  

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.

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Example Sentences

He grew up in Poland and holds a master’s degree from the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow.

From The Wall Street Journal

She has an undergraduate and a master’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in journalism, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Kelly has helped teach classes at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned her master’s degree in 2000.

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He has a bachelor's degree in history and a master's degree in computer science, both from Stanford University.

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Now she wants to enroll in a master’s degree program to study developmental psychology.

From Los Angeles Times