First Advanced Degrees Awarded

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1888–1889

First Advanced Degrees Awarded

Although graduate courses were offered beginning in the 1870s, there were no advanced degrees. In an 1881 report, President Robinson noted that “Individual graduates…are every year proposing to remain and continue their studies in one direction or another…” In the last two years of his tenure, the first Master of Arts degree was awarded in 1888 and the first Doctor of Philosophy in 1889. 

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