0 the highest degree from a university:
She has a doctorate in physics from Yale.
1 one of the highest-ranking degrees given by a university:
He earned a doctorate at the University of Chicago.
In the 1990s, the percentage of women earning doctorates was 23.65 (up from 4.1 in the 1970s).
I had survived cancer and completed my doctorate.
She graduated with an interdisciplinary doctorate which combined the fields of musicology, philosophy, and studies on visual culture.
In these fields the doctorate degree is more or less the final degree before starting a professional career even outside the system of science.
The proportion of students doing doctorates increased with age, and also the proportion studying on a course-by-course basis rather than towards a specific degree.
She holds a doctorate from the same university.
Teaching is carried out at the master and doctorate levels.
Monitors and doctorate programs are similar in both types of organizations.