Today the terms master, doctor and professor signify different levels
of academic achievement, but initially they were equivalent terms. The
University of Bologna in Italy, regarded as the oldest university in
Europe, was the first institution to award the degree of Doctor in
Civil Law in the late 12th century; it also awarded similar degrees in
other subjects including medicine. Note that medicine is now the only
field in which the term doctor is applied to students who have only
obtained their first academic qualification.
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