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

Each has a master’s degree in the computer-science area and each is employed and living in their own condos that we helped them attain with the down payment.

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Her own feelings of loneliness peaked last year during her master's degree.

From BBC

Podhoretz studied English literature at Columbia; then, on a Fulbright scholarship, he earned a master’s degree in English from Cambridge.

From The Wall Street Journal

One international student said the opportunity to study a master's degree at a British university was a dream come true.

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Dr Imafidon, who passed A-level computing aged 11 and received a Master's Degree in Maths and Computer Science from the University of Oxford aged 20, has sought to encourage more young women into careers in Stem - science, technology, engineering and maths.

From BBC