Doctorate
Doctorate noun - One of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university.
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PhD and doctorate are semantically related in academic degree of highest rank topic. In some cases you can use "PhD" instead a noun "Doctorate".
PhD
PhD noun - A doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded graduate study.
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- Of course, it probably helps in not only having a PhD in astrophysics, but also in that his doctorate thesis paper was essentially Version 1.0 of his website.
Source: Running the Asylum -
Of minor note is that Oxford (though not Cambridge) is one of the few places that awards a "DPhil" rather than a "PhD" as the standard academic doctorate in most subjects, thus an Oxford DPhil just indicates that the person has a doctorate, not that their research was in philosophy.
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Likewise in the UK, Liberal Democrat MP Dr Vince Cable (that doctorate is a PhD in economics) spent the later years of the Blair government and the early years of the Brown one warning of "casino banking" exposing the London Stock Exchange and UK banking sector to huge risk.
Source: Ignored Expert
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