List of honorary degrees awarded to Bill Cosby

American former comedian Bill Cosby has received 72 honorary degrees in recognition of his career in acting and comedy. 62 of these have since been revoked due to his now-overturned conviction on sexual assault charges. These include (listed in order of original awarding of degree):

Location	Date	School	Degree	Status
Rhode Island	1985	Brown University	Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)	Rescinded 28 September 2015 [1]
South Carolina	1986	University of South Carolina	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [2]	Rescinded 22 June 2018 [3]
Georgia	1986	Spelman College	Doctorate[4]
Connecticut	1987	Wesleyan University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [5]	Rescinded 25 May 2018 [6]
Pennsylvania	May 1987	Lehigh University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)	Rescinded 14 October 2015 [7]
District of Columbia	1989	Howard University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) [8]
Indiana	20 May 1990	University of Notre Dame	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) [9]	Rescinded 26 April 2018 [10]
Pennsylvania	1990	University of Pennsylvania	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) [11][12]	Rescinded 1 February 2018 [13]
Missouri	1990	University of Missouri-Columbia	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)	Rescinded 23 June 2017 [14][15][16]
Mississippi	20 November 1990	Rust College	Doctorate [17]
Pennsylvania	1991	Temple University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)	Rescinded 27 April 2018 [18]
Pennsylvania	1992	Drexel University	Doctorate	Rescinded 12 November 2015 [19]
California	1992	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)	Rescinded 18 November 2015 [20]
California	1992	Occidental College	Doctorate	Rescinded 12 December 2015 [21]
Maine	1992	Colby College	Doctor of Performing Arts	Rescinded 2 May 2018 [22]
Maryland	Spring 1992	University of Maryland, College Park	Doctorate	Rescinded 22 June 2018 [23][24]
Virginia	1993	College of William & Mary	Master of Arts (MA)	Rescinded 8 August 2018 [25]
Rhode Island	May 1994	Bryant University	Doctorate	Rescinded 12 November 2015 [26]
Pennsylvania	1995	Muhlenberg College	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)	Rescinded 23 October 2015 [27]
Pennsylvania	1995	Swarthmore College	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)	Rescinded 20 November 2015 [28][29]
Texas	20 May 1995	Southern Methodist University	Doctor of Arts (D.Arts)	Rescinded 31 May 2018 [30]
New York	1 June 1995	John Jay College of Criminal Justice	Doctorate [31]	Rescinded 23 November 2015 [32]
Massachusetts	1996	Boston College	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [33]	Rescinded 27 April 2018 [34]
Pennsylvania	May 1996	Lafayette College	Doctorate	Rescinded 28 April 2018 [35]
Connecticut	18 May 1996	University of Connecticut	Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) [36][37]	Rescinded 29 June 2016 [38]
Pennsylvania	1997	Gettysburg College	Doctorate	Rescinded 4 May 2018 [39]
District of Columbia	1997	George Washington University	Doctor of Humanities[40]	Rescinded 11 January 2016 [41][42]
Illinois	1997	Northwestern University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [43]	Rescinded 18 June 2018 [44]
New York	1997	New York University	Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA)	Rescinded 21 June 2018 [45]
California	8 May 1998	University of Southern California	Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA) [46]	Rescinded 1 May 2018 [47]
Virginia	9 May 1998	Old Dominion University	Doctorate [48]
Maryland	17 May 1998	University of Maryland Eastern Shore	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [49]	Rescinded 22 June 2018 [24]
California	1998	Pepperdine University	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)	Rescinded (unannounced date)[50]
South Carolina	May 1999	Claflin University	Doctorate [51]	Rescinded 22 June 2018 [52]
New York	22 May 1999	Colgate University	Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) [53]	Rescinded 1 October 2016 [54]
Massachusetts	1999	Amherst College	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)	Rescinded 17 October 2015 [55][56]
Massachusetts	2000	Tufts University	Doctor of Arts (D.Arts)	Rescinded 15 October 2015 [57]
Pennsylvania	May 2000	Franklin & Marshall College	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)	Rescinded 19 October 2015 [58]
New York	2000	Fashion Institute of Technology	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [59]	Rescinded 2 May 2018 [60]
South Carolina	2000	Medical University of South Carolina	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)	Rescinded 18 May 2018 [61]
New York	2001	Fordham University	Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA)	Rescinded 24 September 2015 [62][63]
Maryland	2001	Goucher College	Doctorate	Rescinded 15 October 2015[64]
Ohio	2001	Ohio State University	Doctor of Education (D.Ed.)	Rescinded 6 April 2018 [65]
Ohio	2001	University of Cincinnati	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [66]	Rescinded 8 May 2018 [67]
Delaware	2001	Delaware State University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [68]
New York	12 May 2001	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Doctorate [69]	Rescinded 18 May 2018 [70]
New Jersey	May 2002	Drew University	Doctorate [71]	Rescinded 23 October 2015 [72]
Massachusetts	2002	Springfield College	Doctor of Humanics [73]	Rescinded 25 October 2015 [74]
Pennsylvania	2002	University of Pittsburgh	Doctorate	Rescinded 13 November 2015 [75]
Pennsylvania	May 2002	Haverford College	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [76]	Rescinded 6 February 2016 [77][78]
New York	2002	Cooper Union	Doctorate	Rescinded 28 April 2018 [79]
New York	2002	Juilliard School	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [80]	Rescinded 28 April 2018[citation needed]
North Carolina	19 May 2003	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) [81][82]	Rescinded 30 May 2018 [83]
Connecticut	26 May 2003	Yale University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [84][85]	Rescinded 1 May 2018 [86]
Georgia	2003	Paine College	Doctorate [87]
South Dakota	2003	Sisseton Wahpeton College	Doctorate [88]
Virginia	2003	Hampton University	Doctorate [89]
Texas	4 September 2003	Baylor University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [90]	Rescinded 8 October 2015 [91]
Pennsylvania	2003	West Chester University of Pennsylvania	Doctorate [92]	Rescinded 30 April 2018 [93]
Massachusetts	8 May 2004	Berklee College of Music	Doctor of Music (D.Mus.) [94][95]	Rescinded 24 March 2016 [96][97]
Maryland	2004	Johns Hopkins University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [98]	Rescinded 26 April 2018 [99]
Pennsylvania	May 2004	Wilkes University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)	Rescinded 2 October 2015 [100]
Pennsylvania	20 May 2007	Carnegie Mellon University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [101]	Rescinded 26 April 2018 [102]
North Carolina	2008	North Carolina A&T State University	Doctor of Humanities	Rescinded 27 April 2018 [103]
Virginia	5 December 2008	Virginia Commonwealth University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [104]	Rescinded 7 December 2018 [105]
Ohio	1 May 2010	Oberlin College	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [106]	Rescinded 4 December 2015 [107]
Alabama	7 May 2011	Miles College	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [108]
California	18 May 2012	University of San Francisco	Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA)	Rescinded 25 September 2015 [109][110]
Texas	5 May 2013	Paul Quinn College	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [111]
Wisconsin	19 May 2013	Marquette University	Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)	Rescinded 24 September 2015 [112][113]
Maryland	21 May 2013	University of Baltimore	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) [114]	Rescinded 22 June 2018 [24]
Massachusetts	18 May 2014	Boston University	Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)	Rescinded 10 December 2015 [115]

Bill Cosby in 1969