# When did Whoopi Goldberg get her Ph.D.? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-whoopi-goldberg-get-her-ph-d/295895 "2005-03-23T15:50:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-whoopi-goldberg-get-her-ph-d/295895/28 "2022-02-04T02:46:46Z")
This was discussed in this thread years ago: > [@Celebrities with REAL (Not Honorary) Doctorates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-with-real-not-honorary-doctorates/392613): > > How many celebrities can you think of who have earned actual Ph. D’s from actual universities? Academics who’ve become famous writers (Isaac Asimov, Richard Dawkins, et al.) aren’t really what I’m looking for. Rather, are there any famous musicians, actors, novelists and such who happen to have gone to graduate school and earned doctorates? I know Bill Cosby got a Ph. D. in education, and Queen guitarist Brian May was in a doctoral program for astronomy (not sure whether he ever actually recei… My conclusion then, and still my conclusion now, is that someone long ago somehow wrongly decided that Whoopi Goldberg had a Ph.D. in literature. They mentioned this in some website. Other people copied it and put it in their own websites. It’s not true. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-whoopi-goldberg-get-her-ph-d/295895)._