How to Use advanced degree in a Sentence

advanced degree

noun
  • Higher earnings and career advancement often motivate the pursuit of advanced degrees, but financial risks can outweigh these rewards.
    Anna Esaki-Smith, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • On top of the dozens and dozens of scientists with advanced degrees, Ruth said.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The group most likely to hit the road: Americans with an advanced degree.
    Fortune, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Many study and practice for years before testing and many hold advanced degrees in the field.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The line is staffed by mental health counselors with advanced degrees.
    oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Jamaica’s bird, the Doctor Bird, has achieved an advanced degree.
    Anna Silman, The Cut, 4 May 2018
  • The utility also paid for a $4,000 graduate school course for the son, as part of the DWP’s program to pay for advanced degrees.
    Dakota Smith, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
  • Tuition can run up to six figures for an advanced degree.
    Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • That puts Alabama at 41st in the nation for the percentage of adults with advanced degrees.
    Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Most young people in New York come to the big city with advanced degrees and naked ambition offset with a fear of failure.
    Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 May 2018
  • Some pay well and some are closer to minimum wage; some need advanced degrees and some a high school diploma.
    John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2018
  • Hamster owners are the most likely to hold an advanced degree.
    Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • One, that even people with advanced degrees were capable of going the whole Jonestown route with the Kool-Aid with Trump.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The trend is even more apparent in women with advanced degrees.
    Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 30 Jan. 2024
  • There was a time when an immigrant didn't need to speak English or hold an advanced degree to build a future in the United States.
    CNN, 5 May 2018
  • Like some sort of female Lorax with an advanced degree.
    Katie Reilly, Time, 11 June 2018
  • The Sensei guides are experts in their fields and often hold advanced degrees in relevant lines of study.
    Chadner Navarro, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2020
  • There are six PhDs, and everyone has some level of advanced degree.
    cleveland, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Powell would be the first Fed leader in nearly four decades to lack an advanced degree in economics.
    Martin Crutsinger and Ken Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Plus, the company has advanced degree wood scientists who help design and educate the builders on how to use the wood.
    Bridget Degnan, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The development of the tool was spearheaded by a DLA Piper lawyer who went back to school to get an advanced degree in data science.
    Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 28 May 2022
  • Windows that required an advanced degree in quantum physics to open.
    Noah Joseph, Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2017
  • More than a quarter of the city’s residents possess an advanced degree, about twice the national rate.
    Travis Deshong, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
  • For people with an advanced degree, the wage premium is two hundred and thirteen per cent.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • However, an advanced degree doesn’t always mean the return will be worth it.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 25 May 2022
  • King was by no means eager for the fight but Ralph Abernathy wanted the face of the organization to be someone with an advanced degree, and Dr. King brought that.
    al, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Most students who obtain a bachelor’s degree stop there; just over a third of those who complete a B.A. go on to get an advanced degree.
    Musa Al-Gharbi, National Review, 9 Sep. 2019
  • One thing that doesn’t take an advanced degree in Hollywood to glean is that Emmy voters tend to pick their darlings (shows, performers) and ride them to the end.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024
  • And looking at education by race, although Black and Hispanic people remain less likely to have advanced degrees than white people, the disparity has shrunk a lot.
    Sarah Green Carmichael, Twin Cities, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Parents with college or advanced degrees underestimated their teens’ need for social and emotional support, as did parents with a high school diploma or less.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 July 2024

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