pass degree

American  

noun

1. (in English universities) an ordinary bachelor's degree conferred without honors.

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Etymology

Origin of pass degree

First recorded in 1910–15

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pass degree

At the age of fifteen he entered as a student of civil and canon law at the university of Salamanca; but he obtained no academic distinctions and was content with an ordinary pass degree.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

It was by making this sharp distinction between the pass degree and the honor degree that the English universities long ago solved the question, much agitated still in America, of the three years' course.

From An American at Oxford by John Corbin

That is, it would seem, a pass degree tends to make a man a Tory.

From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various

But the mere pass degree is very far from implying literary eminence or intellectual power.

From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various

He had scraped a pass degree at Cambridge, and was now nominally studying medicine.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay