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Eva Longoria: Kinesiology
Don't call her a desperate housewife! The actress earned her bachelor's degree in kinesiology — the study of the mechanics of body movement — from Texas A&M University-Kingsville. In 2013 she also completed a master's degree in Chicano Studies at California State University. “You are never too old or too busy to continue your education!” he wrote on Twitter on graduation day.
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Carrie Underwood: Mass Communications with an emphasis in Journalism
After the victory American IdolUnderwood took the wheel and I returned to Northeastern State University in Oklahoma to finish the degree she was just three credits short of completing before the show. Graduated with honors.
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Aziz Ansari: Marketing
The Master of None and Parks and Recreation The star studied marketing at New York University because he was interested in becoming an entrepreneur. “But it was such a strange culture,” he said Paste Magazine. “I didn't know all this financial culture of kids wanting to work at Goldman Sachs and all that stuff and blah blah blah. I just…I wasn't interested.” However, he finished the degree because “he was just able to get by and work in stand up”.
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Gabrielle Union: Sociology
The Being Mary Jane star revealed on Twitter that he earned a degree in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and that he paid for it with “student loans and [a] job at the bookstore.”
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Danai Gurira: Social Psychology
After many years The Walking DeadGurira made a big impression this year Black panther. But back in 2001, she was finishing her time at Macalester College in Minnesota, where she studied social psychology. “I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we operate psychologically in a way that affects our social outcomes around these issues,” she said. he said Rolling rock.
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Mayim Bialik: Neuroscience
The The Big Bang theory The star doesn't just play a genius on TV – she really is one! Bialik earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles. According to CNN, her research there focused on “obsessive-compulsive disorder among people with Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare condition in which the hypothalamus malfunctions.” Before that, he studied Hebrew and Judaic studies, as well as neuroscience, as an undergraduate.
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J. Cole: Communications
In 2007, the rapper graduated with overall honors from the University of St. John in Queens, New York, majoring in communications and business. He earned a 3.82 GPA, but didn't get his actual degree until 2015 because he owed money on a missing library book.
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Kourtney Kardashian: Performing Arts
The older Kardashian sister began her studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas before transferring to the University of Arizona, where completed degree in Theater Arts with a minor in Spanish.
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Natalie Portman: Psychology
Portman headed to Harvard already a star, after his release Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. “I felt like something was wrong,” she said he recalled later, “that I wasn't smart enough to be in this company and that every time I opened my mouth I would have to prove that I wasn't just a dumb actress.” She turned out to be quite bright – she completed a degree in psychology in 2003.
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Cole Sprouse: Geographical Information Systems
In between his time The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Riverdale, Sprouse took time off to earn a bachelor's degree in 2015 from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He created his own Geographic Information Systems major, which he explained on Live with Kelly and Ryan like “basically like virtual cartography”. His twin brother Dylan also attended NYU, earning a degree in video game design.
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Rashida Jones: Comparative Religion
Jones, star of Parks and Recreation and The office, graduated from Harvard in 1997 after studying comparative religion. Her recreational interests were clearly already formed, as she was also a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club and musical director of a co-educated a cappella group called the Harvard Opportunes.
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Will Ferrell: Sports information
Ferrell earned a degree in sports information from the University of Southern California in 1990, which he joked about while delivering a commencement speech there in 2017. “Yeah, you heard me, sports information.” he said. “A program so difficult, so arduous, that they cut it eight years after I left. Those of us with sports information degrees are an elite group. We are like the Navy SEALs of USC graduates. We are very few and there was a high dropout rate.” .
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America Ferrera: International Relations
The Superstore The star was studying at the University of Southern California when her acting career took off. A decade later, she returned and finished her degree in 2013. “I use so much of what I learned at the School of International Relations in my life.” he said that year. “I've learned about the root causes of so many issues I'm passionate about and how to improve people's lives. Sometimes the issues have taken me across the world, sometimes right here in our own backyard.”
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Sam Hunt: Finance
The “Body Like a Back Road” singer was a star at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, but not for music — he was the quarterback of the school's football team. While there, Studied philosophy before getting his degree in economics.
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Regina Hall: Journalism
Long before taking a girls' trip, Hall earned her master's degree in journalism from New York University. “I liked to write,” she he said to Los Angeles Times. “I still write articles sometimes, but I really wanted to produce segments for shows like 60 minutes.”
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Ben McKenzie: Finance & Foreign Affairs
The Gotham and The OC. The star graduated from the University of Virginia in 2001. “Being able to study economics and foreign affairs during the day and perform on stage at night was a real blessing,” he later told school alumni magazine. “I'm not sure I would have had the opportunity to receive such a comprehensive education anywhere else.”
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Freddie Highmore: Spanish & Arabic
As a star in the success of this television season The good doctor, Highmore's star is still on the rise. But in 2014, he was already playing Bates Motel while finish His BA in Spanish and Arabic from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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Laverne Cox: Dance
The Orange is the new black The actress originally attended the Alabama School of Fine Arts before transferring to Marymount Manhattan College, where she earned a BFA in Dance, she said. official website resume. “My first week there a guest teacher saw me in the room and thought I would be perfect for a play he was doing in the theater department,” Cox wrote in the resume. “That was the first of many projects I did with the theater department, even though I was a dance major. Although that was hidden, I never played by the rules.”
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Bradley Cooper: English
Cooper graduated from Georgetown University with honors, too he said GQ that he wrote his English program thesis on Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, and that he recalled “shedding real tears” while reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the campus library.
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