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

Example Sentences

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

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian

George, who had been ploughed twice for Smalls and had eventually taken a pass degree, and to whom the law courts were nearly as unknown as the Pyramids, groaned inwardly at the astounding news.

From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John

The curate was a Selwyn man and had taken a pass degree in theology, but Margaret had come to Gaylord's lecturers in Trinity for a term before her breakdown, and understood these differences.

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

An American pass degree might be taken by electing, as all students now elect, a certain number of courses at random.

From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John

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