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Doctorate

A doctorate (from Latin doctor, meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism licentia docendi ("licence to teach").

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related to Research doctorate · 67
Doctorate → Arts, British, Business Administration, Candidates, Certain, Criteria, DA, DBA, DDS, DEng, Dental Surgery, DES, DESc, DM, DMA, DMan, DMgt, Doctor, Doktoringenieur, DPhil
related to Higher doctorates and post-doctoral degrees · 53
Doctorate → Austria, Central, Civil Law, Commonwealth, Countries, DCL, DD, DEng, Divinity, DLitt, DMus, Doctor, Doctor Medicinae, Dr, DSc, DSocSc, DSSc, DTech, Eastern Europe, Engineering
related to Brazil · 27
Doctorate → After, Biological, Chemistry, Ciências, Computação, Computer Sciences, Direito, Doctor, Doctoral, Doutor, Economia, Economics, Engenharia, Engineering, Exceptions, Filosofia, In, Laws, Life Sciences, Medicina
related to Modern times · 24
Doctorate → After, American, American Medical Association, As, Bachelor, Columbia University, English-speaking, For, German, However, It, Kings College, MB, MD, Medicine, NSF, PhD, Professional, The, The MD
related to Middle Ages · 20
Doctorate → According, Apostles, Applicants, Bible, Catholic Church, Christian, Church, Church Fathers, Europe, However, In, Its, Keith Allan Noble, Lateran, Latin, Paris, The, The Third Council, This, University
related to Professional doctorate · 20
Doctorate → All, Depending, Doctor, DPP, DProf, DPS, Education's National Center, Educational Statistics, However, In, Many, PhDs, ProfDoc, Professional Doctorate, Professional Practice, Professional Studies, The, There, US, US Department
related to Licentiate · 19
Doctorate → Bologna, Bologna Process, Canon Law, Finland, In, In Belgium, In France, Licence, Licentiate, Outside, PhD, Pontifical, Sacred Theology, Scandinavia, STL, Sweden, Sweden's, Swedish/Finnish, While
related to 17th and 18th centuries · 17
Doctorate → Anglo-American, Arts, Berlin, Chris Park, Dr, Europe, Germany, Greek, Humboldt University, In, Masters, Originally, Ph, Philosophy, The, The Doctorate, University
related to United States · 15
Doctorate → Doctor, DPT, In, JD, Juridical Science, Juris Doctor, Law, Many American, Medicine, Often, Ph, Pharm, PhD, Professional, Such
related to Argentina · 14
Doctorate → Accreditation, Argentina, Argentina's Ministry, Doctoral, Doctoral Committee, Education, In, In Argentina, It, National Commission, Science, Technology, The, University Evaluation

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Doctorateis aPhD0.90text
Doctorateis aformal requirement for a docenture or professor's position0.90text
Doctorateis aqualification awarded at FHEQ level 8/level 12 of the FQHEIS on the national qualifications frameworks0.90text
Dr. phil. habil. or Dr. rer. nat. habilinstance ofthe habilitation results in an award of a formal Dr. habil. degree or the holder of the degree may add habil. to their research doctorate0.80text
Privatdozentinstance ofwithout an additional teaching title0.80text
the DClinPsyinstance ofor practice-based doctorates0.80text
DPsychinstance ofor practice-based doctorates0.80text
MDinstance ofor practice-based doctorates0.80text
DHScinstance ofor practice-based doctorates0.80text
EdDinstance ofor practice-based doctorates0.80text
DBAinstance ofor practice-based doctorates0.80text
EngDinstance ofor practice-based doctorates0.80text

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