How to Use baccalaureate in a Sentence

baccalaureate

noun
  • After earning her baccalaureate in nursing, Jen is ready to devote some time to her own health.
    — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2018
  • Jane Leach, 61, helped launch the baccalaureate program in nursing at the school.
    — Brayden Garcia, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Twenty-two of them have only baccalaureate programs, and nine have master’s programs.
    — Cynthia Lindquist, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The bills also would cap the tuition that community colleges could charge for the last two years of a baccalaureate program.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • What if four-year schools began to offer associate degrees along the way toward baccalaureate degrees?
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 9 May 2021
  • The primacy of the baccalaureate degree must be part of the conversation.
    — David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • But advancement means a requirement of a baccalaureate degree.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The baccalaureate and commencement ceremonies will be held on May 14 and 15.
    — Charles Lussier, NOLA.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Tuition per credit hour for the third and fourth years of a baccalaureate program can’t be more than 150% of the tuition of any other district program, the law states.
    — Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The airframe manufacturing technology program broke ground as among the first such baccalaureate programs in the state.
    — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The University of Alaska system is the state’s largest provider of workforce training, and that doesn’t just mean baccalaureate degrees.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Taylor also is a top student who was a member of Salem's international baccalaureate program.
    — Phil Anastasia, Philly.com, 17 June 2017
  • Internet access has been shut down nationwide for at least an hour a day, beginning on Wednesday, at the times when students are taking the annual baccalaureate exams.
    — Nour Youssef, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • At the end of his sophomore year, Louis attended the school’s annual baccalaureate Mass at downtown’s Cathedral of the Madeleine.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • To help meet that goal, the state could expand the limited authority granted to 15 community colleges to award baccalaureate degrees, the report said.
    — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Nearby, the baron and baroness also built the Ullens School, which offers an international baccalaureate curriculum.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Cutting red tape will be embraced, but a cap on international enrollments and a requirement to develop three-year baccalaureate programs will probably receive pushback.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • By the same token, the state universities resisted efforts by the community colleges to offer four-year baccalaureate degrees in some fields that the CSU schools had shunned.
    — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The baccalaureate caps would mean upper-level enrollment at colleges could not be more than 20 percent of total enrollment at any one institution and no more than 10 percent across the entire college system.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • This year’s winter gym dance was made free for students and pep rallies were extended by 10 minutes so ASB could recognize smaller clubs on campus, as well as honors and inter baccalaureate students.
    — Nathan Percy, Orange County Register, 9 Mar. 2017
  • The couple met in June 2012 at the University of Virginia while both were completing a post-baccalaureate premedical program.
    — Blair Saunders, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Todd Penick, a graduating senior who is planning to attend Texas State University, said last year's baccalaureate was attended by around 25 people.
    — chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • Pulliam spent 30 of those years at UW-Whitewater, where he is known best for establishing programs and student organizations that help students make it through school and earn post-baccalaureate degrees.
    — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Other states like Florida and Washington have embraced community college baccalaureate degrees and are seeing strong results — closing workforce gaps and increasing degree attainment.
    — Julianna M. Asperin Barnes, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Another teacher is Becky Villagran, a 41-year-old who has worked at Berkeley High for a dozen years and currently leads the history department in the school’s international baccalaureate program.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 7 May 2024
  • After a multiyear effort that included a rigorous application process, some pushback from state institutions and other challenges, Santiago Canyon College is offering its first-ever baccalaureate program.
    — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 17 Feb. 2026
  • That law said community colleges can develop up to 30 bachelor’s degrees per academic year, as long as the degrees do not duplicate the baccalaureate programs of the University of California and California State University.
    — Cal Matters, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Applications for international baccalaureate magnet programs at Wellwood International School, Woodmoor Elementary School, Middle River Middle School, Stemmers Run Middle School and Windsor Mill Middle School will continue to be paused.
    — Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2025

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