degree place

degree place (plural degree places)

1. An available place or slot for earning a degree at an institution such as a university or college.
   • 2013, Simon K.S. Cheung, Joseph Fong, Wilfred Fong, Hybrid Learning and Continuing Education:

     The UGC-funded institutions and their continuing education units together with the private institutions totally provide around 20,000 first year degree places and 25,000 first year sub-degree places.

   • 2016, Hong Kong, page 130:

     The UGC-funded universities and the self-financing, degree-awarding institutions also provided around 4,600 Senior-year undergraduate places and 11,500 top-up degree places respectively for sub-degree graduates and students with other qualifications.

   • 2017, Gerard A. Postiglione, Julian Leung Yat Ming, Education and Society in Hong Kong:

     At the beginning of the 1980s, university degree places in Hong Kong were available to only 2 percent of the relevant student population.