doctorate
academic or professional degree
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Summary
doctorate is an educational stage[1]. doctorate draws 7,695 Wikipedia views per month (educational stage category, ranking #3 of 16).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: academic degree[3], postgraduate degree[4]
- Follows: master's degree[5]
- Subclass of: postgraduate diploma[6], academic title[7]
- Commons category: Doctoral degrees[8]
- Said to be the same as: Doctor[9]
- Has cause: doctoral promotion[10], doctoral program[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Doctoral degrees[12]
- Facet of: higher education[13]
- Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14]
- Replaces: Q133265899[15]
- Equivalent class: http://pcp-on-web.de/ontology#Doctor[16]
- Short name: TS[17]
- Different from: academic degree[18], Doctor of Philosophy[19], Doctor of Divinity[20], doctoral program[21], Doctor of Sciences[22], Doctor of Science[23], Doctor of Medicine[24], master's degree[25], licentiate[26], honorary doctorate[27]
- Category for recipients of this award: Category:Doctoral degrees[28]
- Prerequisite: doctoral thesis[29], thesis defense[30]
- P14541: njvOE[31]
Why It Matters
doctorate has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] doctorate is known by 86 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]