nondegree

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nondegree (not comparable)

Not of or pertaining to an academic degree.
- 2009 May 9, Serge F. Kovaleski, “From Prep School to Murder Suspect at Wesleyan”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  But upon returning to civilian life in 2003, Mr. Morgan struggled, hopscotching from town to town and holding dead-end jobs, including one as a technician at a garage door company in Colorado Springs, and spending two semesters in 2007 as a nondegree student at the University of Colorado in Boulder before moving back with his parents.