doctor's degree

"The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle," she later wrote in her autobiography.

In 1900 he went to the Free University, Amsterdam, where he received a doctor's degree in theology in 1903 and then entered the ministry.

He took a doctor's degree at the Sorbonne with a thesis on Les Ecrits de Langue Francaise en Louisiane au XIXe Siecle (1932) and later published Bibliography of French Newspapers and Periodicals of Louisiana (1933) and Gombo: The Creole Dialect of Louisiana (1934).

He held bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Indiana University, and his doctor's degree in composition from CCM.

McAllister has an undergraduate degree in music performance from the University of Toronto, a master's degree in music education from McGill University and a doctor's degree in music education from Kent State University.

A highly regarded teacher, he has master's and doctor's degrees in music education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and served as a Duke Ellington Fellow at Yale.