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Master of Arts
Variant of Master of Arts (or Science, etc.)
a degree given by a college or university to a person who has completed a prescribed course of graduate study in the humanities or related studies (or in science, etc.): it ranks above the degree of Bachelor and below that of Doctor
also master's (degree)
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