He achieved a first class degree in history from Edinburgh University, where he went on to complete a PhD.
William's 2:1 class degree beats his father's 2:2 from Cambridge, making him one of the most academically successful royals.
He has formidable intellectual powers: possessor of a first-class degree, ex-president of the Oxford Union, and an ex-consultant with McKinsey.
There was Lord Jenkins himself, then plain Woy, in possession of a first-class degree from Balliol College, Oxford, like his colleague Denis Healey.
She also earned a first class degree in theology from Durham.
Employers are much less likely to use an upper second class degree - a 2:1 - as a "gold standard" for deciding which students to recruit.
Of those completing post-graduate teacher training courses last year, 56% had achieved an upper-second-class degree or better as an undergraduate - up from 55% in 2004.
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"It's a possibility that some people might not want to go because Messi is not there but they have a degree of top class players, " added Smith.
Miss Wells-Burr, who graduated from Bath Spa University with a first-class degree, was discovered by fire crews in her red Ford Focus in a field in Ashill.
Boyle, who was accused of dumbing down Radio 4, attended a comprehensive school in Glasgow before gaining a first class degree in English at the University of Strathclyde, and then completing an MA on Charles Dickens.
About 83% of history trainees and 77% of those planning to teach English had a first class degree or a 2:1, compared with 52% of those wanting to teach maths and 54% of science trainees.
She graduated with a first-class degree in earth and space sciences from UCL, studied under Seymour for her PhD, and went on to forge her own career as a research fellow and most recently as a university lecturer.
But the triumph of her story is that, together with her teenage husband, she was able to go on to Durham University, graduate with a first-class degree, and put her fine literary sensibility to use in her own beautifully crafted prose.
To counter the glut of 2:1s, Mr Thomas recommends sub-dividing that class of degree even further, to recognise the "very good but not quite first-class" students.
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Among members of the creative class with no college degree, the post-recession unemployment rate was 5.7%, compared to 10% among service sector workers and 15.1% among counterparts who also had no college degree and had previously been employed in working class jobs.
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Miss Blackman was awarded a First Class honours degree in Education Studies.
Miss Blackman completed a first-class honours degree in education studies shortly before she died, and had spent much of her spare time caring for autistic children.
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Born in 1957, the eldest of seven children, Mr Hayward gained a first class geology degree from Aston University in Birmingham, and a PhD from Edinburgh University at the age 22.
Roughly 6% of black British students got a first class honours degree at UK universities in 2011-12, compared with nearly 19% of white British students, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) shows.
The British suffragettes, who often exchanged battle tactics with their American cousins, were led by clever middle-class women such as Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958), who gained a first-class law degree, but was barred from practising in all-male courts.
She graduated near the top of her class, with a degree in systems engineering.
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At central Missouri's Columbia College, the hunt for students on the verge of graduating worked so well that the school plans to broaden its efforts to find bachelor's degree candidates who are just one class shy of donning the cap and gown.
From the outside they look like a line of gleaming Airstream trailers, especially the dome car at the rear, whose rounded windows afford passengers traveling first class a glorious 360-degree view.
"This is bad news for AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) and Iressa, and we absolutely understand that it has implications for us and that to a large degree people have drawn conclusions about the class, " Goddard says.
Those mid-wage jobs were often a ticket to the middle class for someone without a college degree, blue and pink collar alike.
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Getting a college degree is a traditional mark of middle-class respectability.
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The Salt Lake Tribune reports the man was charged Tuesday with two third-degree felony charges of child endangerment and one class B misdemeanor accusing him of possession of a controlled substance.
To the degree that they listened and responded in the next class makes me extremely confident that this program will continue to do better and better over the years.
In England (which the OECD no longer ranks in the top ten), a third-class or even a pass bachelor's degree will suffice, along with the most basic qualifications in English and maths.
He has been an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University in Boston since 1995 and also teaches a partnership tax class in the master's in taxation degree program at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, his LinkedIn page states.
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