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bachelor's degree

B.A., B.S., undergraduate degree, college degree, four-year degree, baccalaureate. "Baccalaureate" means a college or university bachelor's degree and is therefore an exact synonym for "bachelor's degree" without gender-specific overtones (although its Latin roots are masculine).


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