A List Of celebrities With Honorary Degrees

End of a great day Honorary Degree from @HarvardUniversity thanks HArrrrrvard!

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It’s graduation season and what’s more befitting than a list of your favorite celebrities with honorary degrees? Honorary degrees date as far back as 1478. Universities award highly influential persons with the achievement in hopes of obtaining long-lasting (financial) relationships. Although honorary recipients are discouraged from referring to themselves as “Dr.”, that didn’t stop Benjamin Franklin or the late, great Maya Angelou from tooting their own horns. Check out the list below for more of the pseudo-doctors.

Kerry Washington – George Washington University

John Legend – Howard University & University of Pennsylvania

Denzel Washington – University of Pennsylvania

Aretha Franklin – Princeton, Harvard & Yale

Morgan Freeman – Rhoades College, Boston University & Brown University

Kanye West – Art Institute of Chicago

Oprah Winfrey – Harvard

P. Diddy – Howard University

Mike Tyson – Central State University

Isn’t it great to know they didn’t have to work or pay for it while you crammed a semester’s worth of information into your brain the night before final exams?

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