- PHD
- Third degree?
- Prof's honor, typically
- Degree after being ABD
- Result of a successful defense, perhaps
- A degree of success
- Advanced degree
- Degree earned (in astrophysics) by Queen guitarist Brian May
- Rice paper, perhaps?: Abbr.
- Something held by a lecturer, typically
- Brown paper, maybe?: Abbr.
- High degree
- Diploma abbr.
- Grad sch. aim
- Scholar's award
- Scholar's quest
- Professor's deg.
- High degree (abbr.)
- Result of a good defense, say
- Degree after an M.A., say
- Reward for a successful defense, maybe
- Third degree, perhaps
- Deg. held by Woodrow Wilson
- Kind of candidate
- It's way beyond major success
- See 17-Across
- Shaq, as of 2012
- Master's follower
- Degree on the wall
- Third degree, often
- Prof's credential
- Grad student's goal, perhaps
- Graduate's deg.
- Prof.'s degree
- Degree of success?
- Univ. teaching requisite, usually
- Coll. teaching requirement, usually
- Graduate prog. award
- Prof's degree, maybe
- Univ. teaching requirement, often
- Ultimate deg.
- Univ. degree
- Highest deg.
- M.A. follow-up, maybe
- Graduate degree
- Master's follow-up, often (abbr.)
- Advanced deg.
- Prof's credential, usually
- Prof's degree, perhaps
- Third degree, for some
- The third degree?
- Degree held by Brian May
- Peter Weller's degree
- MIT acquisition
- Brainy type
- Doctorate: Abbr.
- Master's pursuit, perhaps: Abbr.
- Certain candidate's goal, briefly
- Third deg.?
- Deg. for many 69-Across
- High deg.
- Postgrad degree
- Prof's deg.
- Degree for many a prof
- Scholar's deg.
- Honorary deg., perhaps
- Many a prof
- Deg. of distinction
- Prof.'s holding
- Letters from school
- Deg. held by Wilson, but no other U.S. president
- Post-M.A. pursuit
- Prof's deg., often
- Research grant?
- Graduate deg.
- Graduate's prize: Abbr.
- Master's follower, often
- Advanced degree: Abbr.
- Degree for a prof.
- Humanities deg.
- Grad. school degree
- Janet Yellen's deg.
- Pres. Wilson earned one
- Scholarly attainment
- Educator's deg.
- Columbia offering
- Prof's degree, often
- Certain candidate's quest
- Woodrow Wilson's deg.
- Professor's deg., often
- Academic bestowal
- High academic attainment
- Professor's degree, often: Abbr.
- Scholarly type
- Degree often held by a prof.
- What Yellen got in economics
- Deg. for many a professor
- Prof's degree, for short
- What Indy Jones got from the Sorbonne
- One who's given the third degree?
- Degree held by many univ. professors
- ___ program (university offering)
- What a postdoc already has
- Person of high degree.
- Degree Wilson held.
- Academic degree.
- Academic deg.
- Deg. Wilson earned
- Degree.
- Scholars degree.
- College degree
- Third degree, in a scholastic sense
- Possibility after an M.A.
- Prof. probably
- Pres. Wilson was one
- Coveted deg.
- Grad. degree
- The Prof, usually
- Wilson's deg.
- Degree of distinction
- Reward for yrs. of study
- The nth degree?
- Nth degree
- Master's follower, maybe
- Scholar's goal
- Oft-framed document
- Pres. Wilson held one
- Researcher's goal, maybe
- University conferral
- A grad may be working on it
- Acad. honor
- Quite a scholar, for short
- University offering
- What a candidate might go for
- Higher degree?
- Significant degree?
- Thesis defender's prize, maybe
- ___ candidate
- Goal of some candidates
- A good defense may result in it, briefly
- Degree after an M.A., perhaps
- Woodrow Wilson is the only U.S. president to have one
- Deg. for a prof
- Ultimate degree?
- What an M.A. might go on to earn
- T.A.'s pursuit, maybe
- Mr. Jock, TV quiz ___, bags few lynx (classic pangram)
- Result of many years of study, for short
- Woodrow Wilson was the only U.S. prez to have one
- Deg. that requires a defense
- Goal of many a candidate
- Candidate's goal, for short
- Queen guitarist Brian May has one in astrophysics
- Successful defender, in academia
- Goal after a master's, for short
- Reward for a successful defense, in brief
- Woodrow Wilson was the only U.S. president to have one
- Many a college prof
- Utmost degree?
- Academic's degree
- Goal for many a T.A.
- Hood wearer at a graduation, for short
- Many a prof has one
- Academic's credential
- Indication of learnedness, for short
- Common deg. for a professor
- Research scientist's deg.
- Grad student's goal
- Deg. above a master's
- Dissertation writer's goal
- Secretary Albright has one
- Result of a defended thesis
- Many a candidate's goal: Abbr.
- What a good defense might lead to
- Tuskegee offering
- Defender's goal
- Degree held by "Jeopardy!" host Mayim Bialik
- Doctor's letters?
- Dr.'s wall hanging
- Advanced degree, briefly
- Doctor's degree
- Doctorate
- Master's follower, briefly
- Third degree, usually
- Dissertation finisher
- Coveted degree
- Dissertation finisher, hopefully
- Prof. requirement, perhaps
- ___ program (post-grad university offering)
- Doctor of philosophy
- Advanced college deg.
- Degree to be proud of
- Scholar's accomplishment
- Impressive deg.
- Impressive degree
- Major degree
- Certain degree of success?
- Master's topper, briefly
- Reward for a successful defense: Abbr.
- Kind of thesis you defend
- Degree after an M.A., often
- Degree higher than an M.A.
- Prof.'s degree, usually
- A great degree?
- Angela Merkel has one in quantum chemistry
- The third degree, say?
- Degree involving a dissertation
- Degree after M.A., often
- Degree after an M.A.
- Degree of difficulty?
- Degree held by Rachel Maddow
- Degree with a lowercase middle letter
- Thinker of great thoughts hopefully abbr.
- Impressive degree, briefly
- Prof's qualification
- Degree of great success
- One given the third degree?
- Deg. for many professors
- Grad school goal
- Degree involving a defense
- Advanced academic degree
- Degree beyond an M.A.
- Degree held by many 44-Downs
- Degree held by some professors
- Degree with a dissertation
- It might follow a master's degree
- MD/___ (dual degree)
- Professor's degree, often
- Degree for most college profs
- Degree held by Kizzmekia Corbett
- Degree held by MLK
- Degree held by many professors
- Grad school goal, for some
- Acad. goal
- M.A. topper
- Woodrow Wilson was one
- Queen guitarist Brian May's degree
- Timothy Leary's deg.
- Grad sch. goal
- Dissertation writer's prize
- Quest of some candidates: Abbr.
- Deg. of many a professor
- One who got the third degree?
- Grad student's goal, maybe
- Prof, often
- Wilson was the only president with one
- Deg. for a professor
- Deg. requiring a defense
- Part of many a dual deg. program
- Person with a thesis
- Goal of certain candidates
- Letters earned by a defense?
