• Laura Callahan, a former senior director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was found to have obtained her academic degrees through a diploma mill run out of a converted Motel 6?
• the type of degree offered by a veterinary school (pictured) can vary widely, ranging from the Bachelor of Science to the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine?
• Frith Banbury directed plays on four continents without ever having obtained an academic degree?
• Gibraltarian degree-level students studying in a UK university receive a full scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar?
• English musician and poet Robert Wydow is the earliest known recipient of a Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford University?
• Air Marshal John McCauley's (pictured) university degree was an unusual qualification for a pilot in the pre-war RAAF, whose officers generally "valued little beyond flying ability"?

Facts on topics related to Academic degree

Doctorate

• Dr. Angel Ramos is one of the few deaf Hispanics in the United States to hold a doctorate?
• Elsa Eschelsson, the first woman both to finish a doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in Sweden, was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
• Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque (pictured), the tutor of the future William II of the Netherlands, obtained a doctorate honoris causa from Oxford in 1811 while accompanying the young prince there?
• Ludwig Schwarz, the Roman Catholic bishop of Linz, Austria, has a doctorate in classical philology and archeology from the University of Vienna?
• Richard Arrington, the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has a doctorate in zoology?
• in 1969, Ivar Orgland was the first foreigner to take a doctorate at the University of Iceland?
• students who finish a doctorate at the Georg-August University of Göttingen traditionally kiss the Gänseliesel, a statue in the center of Göttingen?
• the Norwegian novelist and editor of Vinduet, Henrik Langeland, wrote a doctoral thesis on Marcel Proust?
• the University of Cambridge denied Edward A. Irving a PhD when he submitted evidence supporting continental drift?
• the type of degree offered by a veterinary school (pictured) can vary widely, ranging from the Bachelor of Science to the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine?

Doctor of Philosophy

• Jack Faber received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, where he also served as the school's Department of Microbiology head, football coach, and men's lacrosse coach?
• after his release from prison, Laurence McKeown, a former volunteer in the Provisional IRA who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, earned a Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast and co-founded the Belfast Film Festival?
• for security reasons, the findings relating to uranium in John Holt's 1941 PhD thesis on artificial radioactivity were not released?
• in 1876, Edward Bouchet became the first black American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university?
• the Norwegian band Superfamily consists of several academics, including lead singer Steven Wilson who holds a Ph.D in chemistry?

Master's degree

• Andrei Kravchuk gave up his almost-completed master's degree in Mathematics to study film after Aleksei German offered him a job as a director's assistant?
• William Sharman, a finalist in the 110 meter hurdles at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, is also a classically trained pianist and has a master's in banking and finance?