Today, two United States Senators and 16 Chief Executives of Fortune 500 companies hold Columbia degrees, as do three of the 25 richest Americans and 20 living billionaires.

In 1898, the school was named Seattle College after both the city and Chief Seattle, and it granted its first bachelor's degrees 11 years later.

At present, there are 14 faculties, 86 academic departments and 79 colleges spread all over the city, with 132435 regular students and 261169 students in non-formal education programmes and the annual honorary degrees ( Honoris causa ) of the University have been conferred upon several distinguished people, including Amitabh Bachchan, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Cardiologist Dr. Jayantibhai Patel, cartoonist R. K. Laxman and scientist CNR Rao ( 2006 ); and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ( 2008 ).

Apart from the Magsaysay Award, he is also the recipient of the 2005 Most Distinguished Alumnus Award given by the University of the Philippines Alumni Association ; the 2003 Man of the Year Award by the Philippine Free Press ; the 2000 Filipino of the Year Award by the Philippine Daily Inquirer ; the 2001 Rule of Law Award ; the 1999 The Outstanding Filipino Award in Environmental Law ; the 2003 Chief Justice Roberto Concepcion Award for Legal Aid by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines ; and 13 honorary degrees in doctoral in law and humanities.

Joysticks became especially popular with the mainstream success of Space flight simulator games like X-Wing and Wing Commander, as well as the " Six degrees of freedom " 3D shooter Descent.

The Legion of Merit ( Commander degree ) is one of only two United States military decorations to be issued as a neck order ( the other being the Medal of Honor ) and the only United States decoration which may be issued in award degrees ( much like an order of chivalry or certain Orders of Merit ).

During the 1990s, when their concerts were at their most elaborately staged, a typical Aquabats performance would often include such theatrics as choreographed fight scenes, giant inflatable props, food fights, acrobatic stunts and varying degrees of pyrotechnics, ranging from shooting fireworks to The MC Bat Commander fire breathing.

c. The senior Japanese commanders and all ground, sea, air and auxiliary forces within the Andamans, Nicobars, Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China south of 16 degrees north latitude, Malaya, Borneo, Netherlands Indies, New Guinea, Bismarcks and the Solomons, shall surrender to the Supreme Allied Commander, Southeast Asia Command.

Special Constables exist in several forms with various degrees of Peace Officer powers according to their duties and employers.

The Naval deep sea diver qualification insignia are awarded in four degrees ; Second-Class Diver, First-Class Diver, Master Diver, and Diving Officer.

The badges were issued in three degrees: Observer ( a " US " shield and one left-side wing ), Junior Aviator or Reserve Aviation Officer ( a " US " shield between two wings ), and Senior Aviator ( a star over " US " shield between two wings ).

He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998 ; among his other awards were a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal ( 1976 ), and several honorary degrees.

He has been awarded numerous honorary degrees and awards-most notably he is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and honorary Consul-General is Papua New Guinea.

Basic Officer Training ( BOT ) is the more traditional 3-month pre-commissioning program for non-prior service college graduates, as well as active duty enlisted, Air Force Reserve enlisted, Air National Guard enlisted and former enlisted personnel with college degrees at the baccalaureate level degree or higher who wish to become Air Force officers.

He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993, and has been conferred honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Lakehead University, Queen's University, Carleton University, and Wilfrid Laurier University.

At rotation speed the First Officer ( FO ), who was flying the aircraft, pulled back on the control column and lifted the nose up to 18 degrees.

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

There is much research evidence to validate the use of the instrument in differentiating individuals who are likely to manifest anxiety in varying degrees.

Experiments carried out over long periods of time in order to allow establishment of a steady state have shown that the onset of contraction and its completion are confined to an interval of several degrees Centigrade and to a concentration range of only several per cent.

Temperature and time of agitation in the wash wheel are varied to obtain different degrees of severity.

The ideal storage temperature for long periods is about fifty-five degrees, with an allowable range of five degrees above or below this, provided there are no sudden or frequent changes.

This choice gives us two alternative forms of geometry in which the interior angles of a triangle add up to exactly 180 degrees or less, respectively, and are known as Euclidean and hyperbolic geometries.

After the resurrection, spirits are assigned " permanently " to three degrees of heavenly glory –– Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial ––( 1 Cor 15: 44-42 ; Doctrine and Covenants, Section 76 ) or are cast with Satan into Outer Darkness.

There are differences in degrees of iconicity across sign types.

At one end of the shank there are two arms, carrying the flukes, while the stock is mounted to the other end, at ninety degrees to the arms.

German and international students are educated in more than 20 international or foreign-oriented programs and can acquire German as well as international degrees ( Bachelor / Master ) or Doppeldiplome ( double degrees ).

" The black race of Africa are inferior to the white man in point of intellect – better calculated in physical structure to undergo drudgery and hardship – standing, as they do, many degrees lower in the scale of gradation that expresses the relative relation between God and all that he has created than the white man.

Bacillus subtilis, Enterococcus faecalis, and Haemophilus influenzae ( non-ESBL ) species are generally susceptible to ampicillin, while Enterobacteriaceae, Escherichia coli ( ESBL ), and Klebsiella oxytoca are resistant to ampicillin. In the meanwhile, some Aeromonas hydrophila, Staphylococci, Staphylococcus haemolyticus and Shigella flexneri have developed resistance to ampicillin to varying degrees.

Summers are dry and hot, with temperatures above 45 degrees almost daily with a mean of around 55 degrees, soaring temperatures may advance to over 65 degrees.

Winter temperatures are around 16 – 20 degrees.

The exact mechanism of carbamazepine, gabapentin and pregabalin is similarly unclear, but these anticonvulsants are used to treat neuropathic pain with differing degrees of success.

For example, cold weather crops like rye, oats, wheat, and apples are expected to decline by about 15 % in the next fifty years and strawberries will drop as much as 32 % simply because of projected climate changes of a few degrees.

Aimaks are closely related to Tajiks and Hazaras in varying degrees.

With Alioth, the rotational and magnetic axes are at almost 90 degrees to one another.

There are degrees of aspiration.

Acadia College awarded its first degrees in 1843 and became Acadia University in 1891, established by the Acadia University Act.

Various colleges and universities have awarded Clinton honorary degrees, including Doctorate of Law degrees and Doctor of Humane Letters degrees.

Chaplin was also awarded honorary Doctor of Letters degrees by the University of Oxford and the University of Durham in 1962.

Each year, around 250 post graduate degrees are awarded as well as 850 graduate degrees.

) degrees, and Ph. D. degrees are awarded only by the CUNY Graduate Center.

She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of Bath, and Middlebury College, Vermont, both awarded in 2002.

The college however did not hold its first class until 1838, with the operation of the college itself being only intermittent and no degrees awarded at the college.

" Dalhousie reopened with six professors and one tutor, and awarded its first degrees in 1866.

When university degrees became a prerequisite to become a lawyer in England, the degree awarded was the undergraduate LL. B.

In the United States in 1995, the Glass Ceiling Commission, a government-funded group, stated: " Over half of all Master ’ s degrees are now awarded to women, yet 95 % of senior-level managers, of the top Fortune 1000 industrial and 500 service companies are men.

* Hayek was awarded honorary degrees from Rikkyo University, University of Vienna, and University of Salzburg.

Falwell was eventually awarded three honorary doctoral degrees, and he sometimes used the title " doctor ".

MIT awarded 1, 547 master's degrees and 609 doctoral degrees in the 2010 – 11 academic year.

MIT has never awarded an honorary degree, nor does it award athletic scholarships, ad eundem degrees, or Latin honors upon graduation.

She has also been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Yale University, Harvard University, Williams College, and Smith College.

Bachelor and master degrees are awarded by Macquarie University and students have access to the university library for study and research.

In 1925, the Nova Scotia Legislature awarded the Mount the right to grant its own degrees, making it the only independent women ’ s college in the British Commonwealth.

" He was later awarded honorary degrees from Amherst College and Clark University.

There are degrees of dangerous and unfair play and penalty shots are awarded depending based on the severity of the foul and where the foul was committed on the polo field.