Colorado Technical University

Whats the record for most college degrees received by one individual?

i know people go back to school for additional education so it got me thinking: whats the most courses completed or degrees received by one person? is it possible to complete every course a college offers? has this been done? i wonder whats the most that has been acquired by 1 person? Thanks for any help!

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1. I've never been able to find a record but I've found some pretty impressive collections. Micheal Griffin of NASA has five master's degrees in addition to his bachelor's and doctorate. Daniela Simidchieva (IQ = 200) of Bulgaria also has five master's degrees. Lt. Col. Peter Faber, USAF has five master's degrees. Dr. Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad Jr. (a physician) has a collection that includes at least four academic doctorates including one each from Oxford and Cambridge. He also has an LLM from Harvard and an MA in Anthropology from Columbia. If you Google around a bit, you'll find that five master's or three doctorates seems to about top the list but isn't unheard of. You don't find much searching for six master's or four doctorates. A pair of bachelor's isn't uncommon at all. Many schools won't award a third bachelor's degree and that makes three bachelor's pretty uncommon - but possible. There are probably others that are equally impressive. None of these collected all of their education from one college. One of my educational goals is to join that list of holders of five master's degrees. ☺ I don't think anyone would take all of the undergraduate courses at a university though - I was really tired of that level of education at just under 200 hours of undergrad. You start wanting to get much deeper into the subject than an undergrad professor wants to take the class. The college starts getting annoyed with you once you hit 160 semester hours thinking you're never going to leave and they generally cut off any and all funding at 180 hours (about 60 courses).