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An Honorary degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum) is a degree awarded to someone by an
institution that he or she may have never attended. Usually it is given, amidst great pomp, as a way of honoring some famous or
distinguished visitor.
Some universities, however, also have the custom of awarding an honorary master's degree to every scholar it appoints as a full professor who had never earned a degree there, as a
way of coopting him or her as an alumnus.
An ad eundem degree may also be considered a sort of honorary
degree.
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